Alger Hiss, a former State Department official, is convicted of perjury for lying about being a Soviet spy on January 21, 1950. The case remains one of the most significant legal battles of the early Cold War era It went on to serve as a catalyst for the rise of McCarthyism and the political career of Richard Nixon.
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