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a ltr. to Direstor, FBI 5a2 S49 "“Weutuinster, Mi. Jan, 24, 1949 "Dear Gilbert Kilpaks "Thank thee for thy letter in which I apprehend the whele epirit better sczetimes than particular phrases. “Ged has given mo a work to do. He has said that I sust gtand up in confessing my orn sin to the ears of tha world. I mat jay bare the sin of the world and the century. In my person I must teke up all gin and I mist especially do this in an age which cannot dure truth - an age in which ‘the one thing man cannot do is to speak Goé'@ truth becauge to do so would be to reveal man’s lis. “Perfidy and terror are the works (7) of the aze which has re- solved to live without God - therefore, the confession that I have to make 4s a ¢onfeasion of perfidy and terror. Sut this ordeal (fer the confessor and for all who must share knowledge of the confession) is raised up by two powers < courage and compassion, "Thee prnys for all - and thy prayer is better than uy prayers, but thee prays in the peace of the meeting or its spirit. I too pray for all; but I prayed for Alger Hise at tho moment when he wae insulting mo in the Hotel Commodore. I prayed for him before huadreds of people in Congress when he charged me with insanity. I pray for him, and I pray for them all, each day, “If I sould fight commmism without injuring one of them, I would do se. I tried to disclose the conspiracy without wduly injuring the conspirators. In fact, I shielded them for nine years + shielded them in the end at great, perhaps irreparable risk to myself, that is to aay, to wy femily, which chiefly must suffer my sufferingse . "I do not judge Alger Hiss, and I do not hate him. At his in- dictaent, the press asked me for comment, I said: "I should be inhuman af I could take any pleasure in Me, Hiss’s troubles. If f could help him, I would help him. And I would help all the others. But if I could “4-00 | 103255