#historyonleo #onthisday On January 21st 1950 Alger Hiss, high ranking US diplomat and one of the architects of UN Charter, is found guilty for perjury related to his 1948 appearance at House of Anti-American Activities, when he was accused by Whitaker Chambers, former Communist Party member, of being a Soviet spy. Hiss will be sentenced to five years and released after three, maintaining his innocence until his death in 1996. Although some of post-Cold War revelations about Soviet covert activities appeared to confirms accusations, many in USA still see Hiss as a martyr and victim of McCarthyst anti-Communist hysteria.