Donald Hiss was the younger brother of Alger Hiss. From 1929 to 1930 he was secretary and law clerk to a Supreme Court justice. From 1930 until 1933 he engaged in the private practice of law. From 1933 to 1935 he was employed by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. In 1934 he was also attached to a special Senate committee investigating the munitions industry. Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was a U.S. lawyer and government official accused of spying for the Soviet Union. ... The supreme court in some countries, provinces, and states, is the highest court in that jurisdiction and functions as a court of last resort whose rulings cannot be appealed. ... The United States Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) (P.L. 73-10 of May 12, 1933) restricted production during the New Deal by paying farmers to reduce crop area. ...

In 1935 he was employed as a special attorney by the Department of Justice. State . On September 18, 1936, he was appointed an assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State and worked in the State Department throughout World War II unitl 1945. The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is a Cabinet department in the United States government designed to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans. ... The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

Donald, like his brother Alger, was a secret member of the Ware group, a group of United States government employees who illegally belonged to the Communist Party of America which advocated the violent overthrow of the United States government. Hal Ware , son of Ella Reeve Bloor. ... The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is one of several Marxist-Leninist groups in the United States. ...

References

• John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press