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American Playhouse: Concealed Enemies, Part I: Suspicion (1984)
Why I think this film is unavailable...
...is that many in the 'biz' don't like the inference that Hiss was guilty and would prefer this subject be forgotten. It is amazing that this film was made at all and then shown on PBS no less. Based on a book called 'Perjury' the true hero of the story is a journalist named Whittaker Chambers who had been a member of the Communist Party USA and came to renounce that ideology and expose it's conspiracies and operatives. While these events happened 60 years ago, die-hard American leftists and particularly those in Hollywood, prefer to advance the notion that Hiss was an innocent man and ruined by the evil Nixon. Ever notice how there is no shortage of one-sided dramas about Senator Joe McCarthy and the blacklisting of Hollywood writers? Now there exist quite a number of good books documenting the extent and intentions of communists in the early 1930's, 40's and 50's.
KGB archives that became available after the fall of the Soviet Union prove that Hiss was guilty. Look it up.