The Last Pumpkin Paper Author:Bob Oeste The long-forgotten Alger Hiss case provides the key to a 50-year-old conspiracy of blackmail, espionage and assassination on both sides of the crumbling Iron Curtain. Joe Pope, a congressional investigator back in '48, is trying to enjoy his retirement in Key West when his ex-boss convinces him that there's a piece of incriminating micro... more »film in existence that could "rewrite the history of the 20th century."
Joe Pope goes to work as an investigator for Congressman Richard Nixon and the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late 1940s. Years later, when President Nixon sends Pope to Germany in search of papers kept from the HUAC by Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss, he stumbles on unexpectedly volatile information about the case.« less