In whose presidency was Alger Hiss first accused of being a spy?
Richard Nixon
Dwight Eisenhower
Harry Truman
John F. Kennedy
Answer
The accusation against Alger Hiss of being a Soviet spy first surfaced during the presidency of Harry Truman. Hiss, a former high-ranking U.S. State Department official, was accused of passing classified information to the Soviet Union during the 1930s and 1940s.
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