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After secretly serving in an underground cell with Whittaker Chambers and others which promoted leftist ideas in Washington DC the 1930's Hiss surreptitiously provided US documents and intelligence...
Alger Hiss was born on November 11, 1904 and died on November 15, 1996. Alger Hiss would have been 92 years old at the time of death or 107 years old today.