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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lindsey Graham's family can just roll him into a three-foot long coffin since he had no backbone.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lindsey Graham's family can fold him into a three-foot long coffin since had no backbone.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

You're wrong about Hiss, and I'd be happy to have a civil conversation about it anytime.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

When I heard that Mel Brooks was turning 100, I thought of my father, a classmate of his at Eastern District High in Brooklyn. According to my Dad, no one really thought that the kid they called Crazy Kaminsky would get anywhere but he showed them. It's good to be the king.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We're living in France now. If you get down to Montpellier you should say hi.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Thanks. That book went through three publishers and there were major challenges with each over the length. I've just turned up some old disks which I'm hoping contain the first final draft. If they do, I'll see about an unabridged version, even though a lot of the cuts probably deserved to be.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I do discuss Berg in the blacklist section, and there are a couple of other mentions, nothing about Freund. I think if I were being definitive the book would have been 1000 pages, its length when I first turned it in and was told to find another publisher. still searching for that original version.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Yup. She looked like she was genuinely having fun with her friends, unlike the other celebs who always seem to have one eye on the camera

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

i read 115k pages of unredacted FBI files, the defense files, both trial records and appeals, correspondence between the Hisses, HUAC records, grand jury minutes, interviewed living witnesses, and CPUSA files at Tamiment. Can you point to specific files that name Hiss in the comintern collection?

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Venona didn't prove anything about Hiss. IN fact, you can make a good case that it shows he was innocent. I think I did, in "Rewriting Hisstory."

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

from the mayday parade here in Montpellier, France, a perfect protest sign:

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

No Kings in Montpellier, France, and you know what they do to their kings here. #NoKings, #Indivisible,

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

my wife upon hearing about the kidnapping of Maduro and his wife, "Why couldn't some country do that to us?"

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Having known, Alger Hiss very well, I can just see him reacting with a half smile to this one.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Hugh Hewett's interview with conservaSive sociologist Reihan Salam began as they always do with, "do you think Alger Hiss was guilty?" In other words, "Are you as intellectually lazy and uninterested in the truth as I am?"

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Would it be wrong to mention my own book, which would've been made into a doc if not for public TV cuts. It's called "Rewriting Hisstory." I only needed 50 years to prove Alger Hiss was innocent. As a journalist, I get bored with stiff his(s)tory books and tried to turn the story into a page turner.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

First day j-school. "Go to a nayb; find its story." I hung with drug dealers in a Queens park & wrote it that way. Ed. said, You're not the story. Spent decades on a book solving the Hiss case. I kept myself out. But you're part of the story, my ed. said. I rewrote it reluctantly, but it worked

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

i had a 45-minute argument with it about Hiss; It was frightening if this is the future of research. It like having an argument with the far right. Every time I would corner it with facts, it would just change the subject. Regarding my book, it just quoted Commentary not the substance of my book

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

C-span's BookTV will be showing the evening of wonderful conversation I had in September with Tony HIss about his Dad's case and about my book, "Rewriting Hisstory: A 50-Year Journey to Discover the Truth About Alger Hiss."

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

as long as you don't say "nuke-u-lar."

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I didn't know it at all. It doesn't seem to have a search function, but you know it raises an interesting question, but probably better to DM you.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I'm trying to figure it out. There are a lot of disks, and I haven't gone through them yet. I'm hoping for one that has that entire draft on there.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

It does have some similarity. Funny thing, I've been going through old papers and found most of the original book before I cut it down from 1400 pages. I'm trying to decide what to do with it.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

In'73, there was a report on the Jordanian station (the kibbutz only had one TV) that George Foreman beat Joe Frazier and was now the heavyweight champ. There were no pictures, and the kibbutz people were all excited because they thought Foreman was Jewish. I was the one who had to set them straight

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

very true about Jordanian TV. I remember watching the news anchored by a guy wearing a weird tie, and the two big shows were Ironsides and Family Affairs. No one would attend a kibbutz meeting if it conflicted with Ironsides.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

it is fascinating. I was in Israel when the actress who played Buffy from the old show Family Affair made a tour and the Israelis were so excited that a couple of people fell through a plate glass window in the middle of the hubbub. The No. 1 on TV there was "Ironsides." Go figure.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The clearest example yet that Trump is suffering from some kind of dementia. But the Democrats need to hold a sober press conference with Hirono and a doctor or two to express serious concern. Just having her comment is not nearly enough. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/10/18/u...

hawaiinewsnow.com

US senator responds to Trump’s claims she wanted ‘railroad to Hawaii’

President Trump made the claims while answering questions during his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Completely and totally right, Hiss was proven innocent decades ago.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The comments about Alger Hiss by Corey Robin on The New York Times's Ezra Klein podcast may have set a Times record for most errors in a single paragraph. Congratulations all around for such whoppers as Chambers would leave documents in a pumpkin for the Russians to pick up.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

We love "Only Murders in the Building" but we'll live by canceling HULU. Since the GOP refuses to do anything, it's in our hands. Our subscription is only a 10th of a smidgen I'm sure but it's the first of many to protest against corporations who that canonize dead fascists.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Gosh, I've forgotten the original post, and how did you know Elinor?

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Once their playing careers are over, athletes' lives often become much less interesting; retired in their '30s, sitting around the house all day with their feet on the furniture, depressed over the lack of competition and adoring crowds; think DiMaggio and Marilyn. think divorce & yup, song fodder.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Whittaker Chambers told the FBI that he stopped being gay when he left the Communist Party, which was pretty funny (by the way, we corresponded about my book on the Hiss case It's out now, called "Rewriting Hisstory."_

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Sorry, but you have your facts wrong. Roosevelt was given no such information in 1939. His Asst. Sec. of State was basically told he was a target of recruitment. Chambers did not mention espionage until libel suit depositions in November 1948. Truman's justice dept. then sought charges.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

At the trials, prosecution witnesses lied, defense witnesses intimidated; Venona describes Hiss only if you do a version of the Rosemary Woods stretch. I've spent decades researching the case (my book on it has just been published), Hiss's innocence based on new and old evidence is an easy call.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

they had what the FBI prepared for them, and Hoover didn't believe Venona for a second.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

We've been watching Helen Mirren enter middle age on Prime Suspect (BritBox). I can't believe I missed the program when it first aired; it's marvelous.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

So what is stopping the Kennedy's (except rfk, jr., of course) from establishing a Kennedy center in exile, renting a hall, giving out the usual awards and having a grand old time without Trump, who will stamp around the White House having a fit because he was outfoxed?

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I found it fascinating how he was still haunted by the break up with Artie, and how Edie had to comfort him in the church by the saying, "Well, he initiated it." It's also worth watching the Steve Van Zandt bio to see the different points of view on the boycott.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

In the entire history of rock n roll, indeed maybe even popular music, has there ever been a worse name for a band? Can you imagine going into Tower Records and telling the clerk, "I"m really into the Final solution." Or, "Is the Final Solution here?

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

you're missing stick, which was wonderful for so many reasons but especially owen wilson's melancholy performance.

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

"If any songs are going to come out of World War III, we better start writing them now." -- Tom Lehrer

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Yeah, but he can't take it. I've written a book about Hiss and several times challenged Hewitt to a civil discussion about the case, and he just refused to respond. had he ever asked me, I would have said, "You bet I do, Hugh. It scares me what it says about you as a journalist that you don't."

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Jeff kisseloff @jeffkisseloff.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

When the Hiss and Rosenberg grand jury files were released almost 30 years ago, the judges cited the extraordinary historical significance of both cases. While Epstein may or may not add up to real political significance, I doubt it meets the historical standards of the Hiss and Rosenbergs cases.

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