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spas Abe Fortas Government documents or other information to Jay David Whittaker Chambers er any other unauthorized person and (2) denied having seen Chambers subsequent to Jamuary 1, 1937. Gn January 25, 1950, he was sentenced to five years in prison on each count, the sentences to run concurrently. On November 27, 1954, Hiss was released on a conditional release, following the statutory allowance for time off for good behavior. Jay David Whittaker Chambers, a self~ confessed member of the Communist Party and Soviet espionage agent, accused Alger Hiss of furnishing classified Government documents and information to him, Chambers, for transmittal to the Soviet Union, Association with Owen J Lattimore Mr. Fortas represented Owen J. Lattimore at hearings before a Subcommittee of the Foreign Relations Committee, United States Senate, in 1950, which were hearings concerning the charges of disloyalty against the Government by employees of the Department of State and other agenctes which were made by the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, The May 18, 1950, issue of "The Evening Star," a Washington, D. C., daily newspaper, contained an article indicating Mr. Fortas had publicly said he was completely convinced that Mr. Lattimore never was a communist. The mational weekly news magazine, "Newsweek," issue of March 10, 1952, contained information that Louis F. Budenz, self-admitted former member of the Communist Party, testified before the Senate {Internal Security Subconmittee of the Senate Judiciary Comhittee, Washington, D. C., that Owen Lattimore had been a member of the Communist Party. s ome