In 1948, the year AlgerHiss was accused before the House Un-American Activities Committee of being a Communist, the law was split in two.
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McCarthy, however, didn't focus his ire on the CIA until 1953, when he tried to subpoena the analyst Bill Bundy, who had contributed to Alger Hiss's defense fund.
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AlgerHiss and Julius Rosenberg were Soviet spies.
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