Editing Venona project (section)

===Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White===
{{Main|Alger Hiss|Harry Dexter White}}

According to the Moynihan [[Commission on Government Secrecy]], the complicity of both Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White is conclusively proven by Venona,<ref>{{cite web|title=Appendix A; SECRECY; A Brief Account of the American Experience |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |year=1997 |url=http://origin.www.gpo.gov/congress/commissions/secrecy/pdf/12hist1.pdf |pages=A–37  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629055716/http://origin.www.gpo.gov/congress/commissions/secrecy/pdf/12hist1.pdf |archive-date=June 29, 2007}}</ref><ref>[http://origin.www.gpo.gov/congress/commissions/secrecy/ "Report Of The Commission On Protecting And Reducing Government Secrecy"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721041016/http://origin.www.gpo.gov/congress/commissions/secrecy/ |date=2011-07-21}}</ref> stating "The complicity of Alger Hiss of the State Department seems settled. As does that of Harry Dexter White of the Treasury Department."<ref>
{{cite web
|url = http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hissVenona.html
|title = The Venona Files and the Alger Hiss Case
|access-date = 2006-06-27
|author = Linder, Douglas
|year = 2003

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060830194709/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hissvenona.html
|archive-date = 2006-08-30
}}</ref> In his 1998 book, United States Senator [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]] expressed certainty about Hiss's identification by Venona as a Soviet spy, writing "Hiss was indeed a Soviet agent and appears to have been regarded by Moscow as its most important."<ref>
{{cite book
| last = Moynihan
| first = Daniel Patrick
| year = 1998
| title = Secrecy: The American Experience
| url = https://archive.org/details/secrecyamericane00moyn
| url-access = registration
| publisher = Yale University Press
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/secrecyamericane00moyn/page/145 145–147]
| isbn = 978-0-300-08079-7
}}</ref>