The Left Finds Its Alger Hiss

Paul Kengor July 25, 2018

In the case of Mariia Butina, the lengths to which derangement is driving the left. Another sign of the left is losing its mind and overplaying its hand in the Trump-Russia saga is the sudden obsession and fulmination over a Russian woman named Mariia Butina.

 “Republicans Have an Alger Hiss Problem Named Mariia,” exclaims the title of a Politico piece getting a lot of play in the press. It states:

Alleged Russian spy Mariia Butina was arrested just a few days short of the 70th anniversary of the last major accusation of Russian infiltration in America’s political system: when on August 3, 1948, Time editor and ex-communist Whittaker Chambers publicly accused former high-ranking State Department official Alger Hiss of being a Soviet agent. Rattled Democrats, including President Harry Truman, handled the fallout poorly, hesitating to distance themselves from Hiss and unwittingly feeding a conservative narrative that they were soft on communism. Republicans are now having their own Alger Hiss moment.

The article reminds us that Hiss was convicted of perjury in 1950, served 44 months in prison, and that “intercepts declassified just before his death strongly indicated Hiss was a Soviet agent for years.” Thus, states the author, the Hiss conviction left a lingering stain on the Democratic Party and on liberalism.

“If Republicans handle their Alger Hiss moment as awkwardly as Democrats did,” insists the article, “they face a similar fate.”...................

For starters, Hiss was a U.S. government official who, among other things, illegally took files from his State Department office in the evening and brought them home to his wife, Priscilla, who typed up duplicates to deliver to the Soviets, before he returned the files the next morning. Whittaker Chambers was the courier who delivered these documents (“at least 52 times,” Chambers testified) to Soviet agent Boris Bykov.

This is no place to rattle off a full litany of Hiss’s misdeeds, but it is a good place (especially in service of a badly misplaced analogy to Butina) to correct one 70-year-old misperception of the left — namely, that Hiss’s role at Yalta wasn’t very involved. One of the best and most succinct recent examinations of Hiss at Yalta  was the 2012 book, Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government, by Stan Evans  and Herb Romerstein. Chapter 3, “See Alger Hiss About This,” is a blockbuster, relying particularly on the diaries of Edward Stettinius, who was no less than FDR’s secretary of state during Yalta. Stettinius’s papers sit at the University of Virginia, where liberal scholars ignore them. Stan Evans, however, bothered to take a ride to Charlottesville to give them a read. What Evans found is a devastating case against Hiss, FDR, and Yalta............To Read More.....

My Take - I read the book linked in the article and I highly recommend it and I also recommend American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character ... by Diana West.  This has nothing to do with pest control so why did I post this? 

To demonstrate just how badly the left infested the federal government with Soviet agents, socialists and fellow travelers.  Just because the Soviet Union no longer exists doesn't change their philosophical predilections.  The original actors are gone but their ideological progeny are there in mass, and they no longer have to hide.  And their goal is the same now as it was then.  Destroy the American economy and overturn the Constitution to impose a socialist state on America. and environmentalism is now the spearpoint for that action. 

Make no mistake about this.  It's clear from so much new information that FDR had to have known his administration was totally infested with these traitors (including the one who lived in the White House for two years) and worked in collusion with them.  That "deep state" still exists, and it's called treason.