title: Alger Hiss, February 13, October 11, 1990
abstract: The interview was recorded at United Hiss residence, New York City on February 13 and October 11, 1990
   . The Interviewer was James S. Sutterlin
  . 
  Alger Hiss entered government service in 1933, serving in the Departments of Agriculture, Justice and State. In 1944, he was appointed as Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs in the United States State Department. That same year he served as the Executive Secretary of the Dumbarton Oaks Conference. Under Pre