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HISTORY OF CONGRESS
AND THE CAPITOL

Hiss, Chambers and the Cold War

Richard Nixon (right) and staff investigator Robert Stripling pose for photographs with the “Pumpkin Papers”—microfilms that implicated Hiss as one of Chambers’s Communist contacts

Richard Nixon (right) and staff investigator Robert Stripling pose for photographs with the “Pumpkin Papers”—microfilms that implicated Hiss as one of Chambers’s Communist contacts

 

Richard Nixon (right) and staff investigator Robert Stripling pose for photographs with the “Pumpkin Papers”- microfilms that implicated Hiss as one of Chambers’s Communist contacts.

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History of Congress and the Capitol