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Who offered a controversial statement about Hiss's innocence in the 1990s?

  • Joseph McCarthy

  • Richard Nixon

  • Two former senior Soviet military officers

  • FBI Director

Answer

In the 1990s, two former high ranking Soviet military officers raised controversy when they made a startling statement regarding Alger Hiss's innocence in the espionage case that had embroiled him decades prior. This revelation challenged the widely held belief in Hiss's guilt and sparked fresh debate about the nature of the espionage allegations and the broader context of the Cold War era.
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