Hiss a liar, Hiss Is Liar, Case Expert Corhides Expert Claims r6 4 9 ill, ByWilliam Chapman HISS, From Al stein named Harry Cassady Waattincton Post Marl Writer 44 months in prison. Cham- as the expert who "showed Previously unpublished about the Woodstock type. bers testified that Hiss, a in detail" that Mrs. Hiss had evidence in the 26-year-old writer from the authorities." WO State Department offi- typed the documents. The Alger Hiss perjury ease He said he could not recall :cial, had given him copies of defense expert, who showed shows that Hiss was not an having told his lawyer, Da- stolen documents which that the documents had innocent victim of McC- were transmitted to Soviet been typed on the Hiss ma- vis that he had given the agents. Hiss maintained that chine was Edwin Fearing, arthyism, a Smith College `Woodstock away, but said he be never stole any docu- Neither testified at the trial. professor has concluded. did recall having given the . silents and had known Weinstein charged that Allen Weinstein claims In lawyer "leads" as to its pos- Chambers only briefly, un Hiss "lied repeatedly" about mawazine article to be pub- der another name. his own knowledge of the lished today that Hiss "has sible disposition to the Sal- The central piece of evi- Woodstock. Hiss told a been lying for nearly en vation Army, former em- elm= in the case was a grand jury that he had no vpers" abate. his relations ployee or second-hand deal- .Woodstock typewriter, "independent knowledge" of with his adversary, Whit- ers. which, according to FBI ex- the typewriter, for which taker Chambers, the con- Weinstein says that the perts, had been used by the the FBI was conducting a fessed Communist spy. low evidence shows that Hisses to type the docu- vigorous search in Washing- In a lengthy book review, typewriter experts retained ments. Hiss' supporters have ton junk stores, Weinstein. an authority on by Hiss found that the docu- contended over the years But a letter from Jphn F, the espionage trials of the ments had been typed on that either another type'- Davis, one of Hiss' defense -'94fis and 1950s, contends Hiss' Woodstock typewriter' writer with similar type fig- lawyers, shows that Hiss had that one of Hiss' main argu- and that handwritten correc- ures was used or that some- told Davis that he had given i'nts 'n his defense was tions on the documents had ha own tine, possibly Chambers, bad the machiee to the son of a ?roved false by been done either by Hiss or gained access to heir Wood- Hiss household maid, Wein- 'eired axnerts, whose opin- his wife, Priscilla. stock in order to frame Hiss. stein wrote. ioni never surfaced in the "With the defense experts In his new book, Smith sensational Hiss-Chambers as friends, the Hiss camp contends in Hiss' defense case that rocked the country hardly needed enemies," that Chambers bought an- "rd ended with Hiss' convle- Weinstein wrote, "The de- other old Woodstock and • tie': fense's basic problem was In typed the incriminating cop- At a news conference In keeping the government and But, according do Wein- ies in a way that made it ap- New York eesterday, Hiss, the public from learning stein, . Hiss' excepts Investi- pear they had been typed on 71. denied ever lying; about about the conclusions of its gated the machine • and the Hiss' Woodstock. els relations with Chambers. own experts, which it suc- en- found that it had been used The copied documents He said he had never cessfully managed to do ai were brought out by Cham in esolonege and had to type the documents and 'aged the trial." 'leers, many years after their never given any stolen offi- Weinstein disclosed the that the typing was identical Cham- alleged theft, when Cham- real documents to unpublished evidence in the be "I was innocent then in technique to . that on rs was being pressed in a bers. current Issue of The New libel suit to provide evi- T r-en innocent now," other papers typed by Pris- and York RevReview of Books while dence for his charges that "T'ss said. reviewing a book that cilla Hiss. rars Hiss has Hiss had been a member of Over the strongly defends Hiss' inno- ".. . Almost every expert a spy cell in the 19303. eeetendP.d that he, was cence. hired by Hiss' defense—be- When asked why they -raffled in a conspiracy that The book, "Alger Hiss: fore and during the trials— were hidden away !or so ncluded "forgery by tYPe- The TTrue Story," by John confirmed the judgments of documents he al- many years, Chambers Hee" rq Chabot Smith, argues that the FBI's own experts," maintained that he had "egedly had stolen from the Hiss was framed by his ac- Weinstein wrote. "They needed them as "life preser- itete Department in the cuser, Chambers, and con- agreed that the typing was vers" when he broke with 1910s. cludes with an appeal for identical to specimens of the Communist Party in the At his conference vindication of Hiss by act of Priscilla Hiss' typing and sold, "I 1930s. Chambers said he yesterday, Hiss Congress. Smith covered the came from the same Wood- feared Communist retalia- never withheld information two Hiss trials In 1949 and stock machine." tion and claimed that hit Rae HISS, A7, Cal. 1950 for The New York Her- He added: "Even more possession of the stolen doc- ald Tribune, troubling to the defense, uments would protect him.. Weinstein's research in- several of their experts also cluded more than 15,000 decided that either Alger or pages of FBI material made Priscilla Hiss had written public by a Freedom of In- the interlinear corrections formation suit he filed, but on the various typed docu- ,the most significant new ev- ments, thus Linking the cou- ned over to ple even more closely to the by Hiss and his lawyers.yers. material in question." Hiss was convicted for Using documents provided perjury in 1950, and served by the Hiss defense, Wein-