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Shortly after World Battle II, Congress' House Committee on Un-American Activities started investigating Americans in the united states for suspected ties to communism. One of the people called prior to the House Committee on Un-American Activities, none of them are as controversial as Alger Hiss. Hiss experienced graduated from Harvard Rules, after which he functioned as a clerk for Supreme Courtroom Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, functioned in the Roosevelt supervision for the Agricultural Adjustment Association, and was Brain of the Carnegie Endowment for International Calmness. That qualifications didn't exactly sound like one held by the Soviet spy, aside from a communist, but Elizabeth Bentley, a past communist, notified the committee about a suspected spy diamond ring and known as several titles, including Hiss. More notably, Hiss was also accused to be a communist and Soviet spy by an admitted communist, Whittaker Chambers. The Hiss circumstance came at the same time when the committee was populated by right-wing zealots, including a young congressman from California known as Richard Nixon.
