British Pathé newsreel coverage of the hearing of the House Committee on Un-American Activities on August 25, 1948, during which Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers publicly confronted one another for the first time. Chambers testified that Hiss had helped him spy on the U.S. for the Soviet Union:
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