Hiss, Al ‧ ger /ˈældʒəʳ/ BrE AmE
(1904–1996) a US government official who was put in prison from 1950 to 1954 for being a Communist ↑ spy . Many people believed he was not guilty, and documents from the former Soviet Union seemed to prove this, when they were made public in 1992. ⇨ ↑ McCarthyism