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Alger Hiss Alger Hiss, was accused by Whitaker Chambers, a TIME magazine editor and a former communist party member, that he was a spy, and that he had given him secret documents  from the state department. Hiss denied ever giving him documents, or being a part of Communist Party. The committee was ready to drop the case, until Richard Nixon convinced  his colleagues to continue to see who was really lying. Chambers produced copies of the secret document, along with microfilm that he had hidden in a hollow pumpkin on his farm.  These pumpkin papers proved Hiss was lying, and so Hiss was convicted of perjury, or lying under oath. He served 44 months in prison.