Allen Weinstein, "a historian of Cold War espionage," died last Thursday. He was 77.
Weinstein's 1978 book, Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case, "marshaled a mountain of new evidence to argue that Alger Hiss was guilty as charged in one of the most famous spy trials of the postwar era, and who served as the ninth national archivist of the United States," the New York Times wrote.