A Manhattan federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to release thousands of pages of transcripts from the 1948 grand jury testimony that led to the perjury conviction of Alger Hiss. The judge's ruling appears to be the first to justify the release of grand jury transcripts on the grounds of historical interest. Hiss was convicted of two counts of lying under oath regarding his ties to Soviet espionage while working with the U.S. State Department -- the defining spy case of the Cold War era.
May 14, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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In a groundbreaking ruling, a Manhattan federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to release thousands of pages of transcripts from the 1948 grand jury testimony that led to the perjury conviction of Alger Hiss.
Noting the “great historical importance of the Hiss case,” Southern District Judge Peter K. Leisure rejected government arguments that the documents should remain sealed so as to uphold the rule of grand jury secrecy.
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