Concealed Enemies

{{Short description|1984 American PBS docudrama}}

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Concealed Enemies is a 1984 American PBS docudrama, produced by WGBH-TV in Boston,{{cite news|last=Butterfield|first=Fox|date=May 6, 1984|title=TV Plays the Hiss Case Down the Middle|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/06/arts/tv-plays-the-hiss-case-down-the-middle.html?pagewanted=all|newspaper=The New York Times|accessdate=January 29, 2017}} about the events leading to the arrest, conviction and imprisonment of former U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss. Directed by Jeff Bleckner, written by Hugh Whitemore{{cite web|url=http://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/05/03/Hiss-Chambers-spy-tale-told-in-PBSS-Concealed-Enemies/4618452404800/|title=Hiss-Chambers spy tale told in PBS'S 'Concealed Enemies'|last=Hastings|first=Julianne|date=May 3, 1984|website=upi.com|accessdate=January 29, 2017}} and starring Edward Herrmann as Hiss, John Harkins as Whittaker Chambers and Peter Riegert as Richard Nixon, the two-part miniseries won the 1984 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kW8j6sHvrewC&q=movie+about+whittaker+chambers+john+harkins&pg=PA47|last=Roberts|first=Jerry|title=Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors|page=47|date=2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810863781}}

The title comes from August 25, 1948, known as "Confrontation Day," during which Whittaker Chambers stated:

The story has spread that in testifying against Mr. Hiss I am working out some old grudge, or motives of revenge or hatred. I do not hate Mr. Hiss. We were close friends, but we are caught in a tragedy of history. Mr. Hiss represents the concealed enemy against which we are all fighting, and I am fighting. I have testified against him with remorse and pity, but in a moment of history in which this Nation now stands, so help me God, I could not do otherwise.

{{Cite book

| first = Whittaker

| last = Chambers

| authorlink = Whittaker Chambers

| title = Witness

| publisher = Random House

| location = New York

| url = https://archive.org/details/witnessw00cham

| url-access = registration

| date = May 1952

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/witnessw00cham/page/n816 799] (total)}}

{{cite web

| title = Hiss-Chambers Hearing

| publisher = C-SPAN

| url = https://www.c-span.org/video/?79536-1/hiss-chambers-hearing

| date = 25 August 1948

| accessdate = 21 January 2018}}

Senator Joseph McCarthy paraphrased this phrase with his own: "the enemy within."{{cite web|url=https://hsd.instructure.com/courses/36466/assignments/29444?module_item_id=151338|title='ENEMIES FROM WITHIN' SPEECH Senator Joseph McCarthy's 1950 Lincoln Day Address by Senator Joseph McCarthy|publisher=Highline Public Schools|date=|access-date=12 October 2022}}

Goldcrest Films invested £558,000 in the film and received £545,000 causing them a loss of £13,000.{{Cite book|title=My indecision is final|first1=Jake|last1= Eberts |first2=Terry|last2=Illott|year=1990 |publisher=Faber and Faber|page=657}}