> Here in the US, land of miracles, missing documents have a tendency to
> turn
> up in wondrous ways almost like a fairy tale. E.g., take the notorious
> Alger Hiss case, where key documents needed to nail Hiss were found in a
> hollowed-out pumpkin on Whittaker Chambers' Maryland farm, hence have
> since been know as the Pumpkin Papers:
> <http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/pumpkinp.html>
Documents which were flagrantly forged. (The typewriters didn't match. Not even close. A fine example of ideology overruling reality.) John Smith's "Alger Hiss: The True Story" has the fullest account. Chambers was a true horror. Just one of the lesser functionaries of this vile Empire, but he did plenty of damage.
-- DRR