PASSPORT FOR ALGER HISS
Visit To Europe (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 8. Alger Hiss, who was convicted of perjury in 1950 after denying that he passed on secret Government documents for transmission to Moscow, will be »granted a passport for a trip to Europe, the State Department announced today.
The department’s spokesman, Mr Lincoln White, said Hiss had applied for travel to England, France, Holland and possibly other Western European countries. He declined to discuss whether Hiss could go to the Soviet Union. Hiss declined to comment on the trip today when contacted at the New York comb manufacturing firm, of which he is a vice-presi-dent. Hiss was convicted in a New York Federal Court after he denied a charge by Whittaker Chambers—who admitted he had once been a Communist—that he passed on secret documents for transmission to Moscow.
To this day Hiss has consistently denied the charge. He was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and released after serving three years an< eight months. Hiss and his wife, Priscilla, separated last January.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28866, 10 April 1959, Page 11
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