![]() Roosevelt to the Yalta Conference, played an important role in the founding of the United Nations and left the Government to become president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.” Hiss had accompanied President Franklin D. When Hiss died in 1996, The New York Times noted, “By the time the charge surfaced in the late 1940’s, Mr. ![]() is not mentioned by the major media when writing or airing contemporary stories about the world body, the facts do sometimes get noticed. itself published a report about its founding that relied upon the observations of Hiss (without of course noting his role as a Soviet agent).Īlthough Hiss’s role in founding the U.N. State Department ignored Hiss’s role, the U.N. The material constitutes an indictment of the State Department’s failure to acknowledge, let alone explain, how a communist assumed a major position of authority and power in the State Department and then used that influence to create a world organization that has been exploited for anti-American purposes ever since. Instead, the documents include several drafts of the report, “The United States and the Founding of the United Nations, August 1941 – October 1945,” which examines minor controversies over mostly trivial matters. There is no smoking gun, in the sense of the documents showing a controversy over some official working to get a mention of Hiss’s name in the report and other bureaucrats objecting to it. was covered up during the 60th anniversary of the world body. The material consists of 215 pages of internal State Department documents which explain how the role of communist spy and State Department official Alger Hiss in founding the U.N. It took several years for the State Department to release the documents, which I have now posted. I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to find out why. On the 2007 anniversary of the U.N., I wrote about a State Department document on the founding of the world organization, “ The United States and the Founding of the United Nations, August 1941 – October 1945,” which ignored Alger Hiss’s role. ![]() She blamed the murders of four Americans, including the Ambassador, on a spontaneous reaction to a film attacking Islam, rather than an al-Qaeda terrorist affiliate which claimed responsibility for the assault.Īlmost as controversial, the Obama State Department has announced that “observers” from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), an ad hoc organization under the United Nations Charter, have been invited to monitor U.S. Ambassador, Susan Rice, has been strongly criticized for lying about the nature of the attack on the U.S. Obama appointed him Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund. One of Barack Obama’s fundraisers was Anthony Lake, a former Clinton official who had publicly questioned whether Hiss was guilty of espionage-related charges. “About fifty showed up as permanent employees and a couple of hundred in part-time assignments,” Shelton says of Hiss’s efforts. by selecting people for employment in the world body. founding conference and was involved in staffing the U.N. The Shelton book notes, “Following Yalta, preparation for the establishment of the United Nations was Hiss’s primary mission.” Hiss was appointed acting secretary-general of the U.N. is the important new book, Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason, by Christina Shelton. ![]() One of the best sources of information on the role of Alger Hiss in the U.N. Don’t expect the major media to remind us of that fact. October 24 is United Nations Day, or as Barbara Marx Hubbard calls it, “ Global Oneness Day.” It has also been labeled “Alger Hiss Day,” in recognition of the Soviet spy and State Department official who played a major role in founding the world body. ![]()
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