Get me a copy of the soviet documents exposing spies in America during
the Red Scare.  I want to see if they actually say what people claim
that they do. I'm tired of hunting for them.  They are reffered to by
these cites;
http://www.fff.org/freedom/1296f.asp
http://www.wkonline.com/a/Senator_Joe_McCarthy_0520204727.htm
http://news.spamcop.net/pipermail/spamcop-help/2002-November/017489.html
http://www.ocolly.com/issues/2002_Spring/022802/stories/political_lessons.html

Hello an0nym0us-ga,

The FFF article mentions the "Vonona" documents, so I searched on
Google for "vonona" in conjunction with the words "rosenberg" and
"hiss".  Google suggested the word "venona" instead, and so I searched
for that word alone.  This did the trick.

The project was called Venona (or VENONA), and you can read about it
and see Venona documents that have been declassified on the following
pages.  (The images of the documents may be too small to read at
first; but if you move your mouse around the bottom right of an image,
a button will appear that will allow you to magnify the image.)

"Introduction to the VENONA Project - An Effort to Digitize and
Enhance the VENONA Documents", by Mr. William P. Crowell, Former
Deputy Director, National Security Agency
The National Security Agency
http://www.nsa.gov/docs/venona/

"Venona: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957" (1996)
Center for the Study of Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency & Director of Central Intelligence
http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/venona/venona.htm

I hope that this information is helpful.

- justaskscott-ga

I got what I asked for and I got it within about a day.  I imagine
that this weas one of the easier questions.  I had been hoping for
some editable version of the documents that I could oprn with msword
rather than slow loading gifs.  Zank you very much eh what?

Christopher Andrew -  author of the  book:

The Sword and the Shield:
 The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB.

says:
Information already made public by Russian intelligence earlier this
year names Hiss as a Soviet agent from the 1930s. They've also
admitted that the Rosenbergs were Soviet agents.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/chrisandrews091599_chat.html

For a balanced view, you may also consult the following:

After all the rehashing of the Alger Hiss case, none of these books
offer new evidence of his guilt, except for a single cable from the
Venona transcripts that makes reference to an American agent codenamed
"ALES" and speculates that it is probably Hiss

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/knight.html