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Hede Massing was married to [[Gerhart Eisler]] from 1920 to 1926. Eisler, a longtime member of the German Communist Party (KPD), in the 1930s was the [[Comintern]] representative in the United States.<ref>Louis Budenz, ''Men Without Faces: The Communist Conspiracy in the USA,'' Harper and Brothers, New York, 1948, pp. ix, 4. [http://www.americandeception.com/index.php?page=usercat&catid=8&count=1 pages 7, 15 (pdf)]</ref> Her second husband was the rich american communist journalist, publisher and sociologist Julian Gumperz. Her third husband was marxist sociologist and KPD cadre [[Paul Massing]].  

Hede Massing was married to [[Gerhart Eisler]] from 1920 to 1926. Eisler, a longtime member of the German Communist Party (KPD), in the 1930s was the [[Comintern]] representative in the United States.<ref>Louis Budenz, ''Men Without Faces: The Communist Conspiracy in the USA,'' Harper and Brothers, New York, 1948, pp. ix, 4. [http://www.americandeception.com/index.php?page=usercat&catid=8&count=1 pages 7, 15 (pdf)]</ref> Her second husband was the rich american communist journalist, publisher and sociologist Julian Gumperz. Her third husband was marxist sociologist and KPD cadre [[Paul Massing]].  

Hede and Paul Massing in the USA were members of an [[OGPU]] apparatus and functioned under the direction of [[Boris Bazarov]], a Soviet illegal officer based in New York.  Massing was assigned several duties, including that of a courier between the United States and Europe.  However, her most important assignment was that of an agent recruiter, a task she apparently carried out with great skill. Massing was assigned targets for recruitment by her Soviet supervisor.  She used appeals to ideology, especially preying on the strong anti-Nazi sentiments of [[New Deal]] liberals who dominated the Washington scene of the Roosevelt administration in the early 1930s.  In 1935 Hede Massing at a Communist cell meeting in Field's home argued with [[Alger Hiss ]] over whether [[Noel Field]], a State Department communist, should work with her group or with The [[GRU]].

Hede and Paul Massing in the USA were members of an [[OGPU]] apparatus and functioned under the direction of [[Boris Bazarov]], a Soviet illegal officer based in New York.  Massing was assigned several duties, including that of a courier between the United States and Europe.  However, her most important assignment was that of an agent recruiter, a task she apparently carried out with great skill. Massing was assigned targets for recruitment by her Soviet supervisor.  She used appeals to ideology, especially preying on the strong anti-Nazi sentiments of [[New Deal]] liberals who dominated the Washington scene of the Roosevelt administration in the early 1930s.  In 1935 Hede Massing at a Communist cell meeting in Field's home argued with [[Alger Hiss]] over whether [[Noel Field]], a State Department communist, should work with her group or with The [[GRU]].

[[Laurence Duggan]] was among Hede Massing's recruits.

[[Laurence Duggan]] was among Hede Massing's recruits.

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==External link==

==External links==

*Massing, Hede, Chapter 4:.[http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:7u1ekYrM8skJ:www.alexanderstreet4.com/cgi-bin/asp/imld/getdoc.pl%3F/projects/artfla/databases/asp/imld/fulltext/IMAGE/.5908%26sortorder%3Ddocsequence+Gaik+Ovakimian&hl=en&start=16 The Routine of an Underground Agent], from ''This Deception''. New York, NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1951), pp. 335.

*Massing, Hede, Chapter 4:.[http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:7u1ekYrM8skJ:www.alexanderstreet4.com/cgi-bin/asp/imld/getdoc.pl%3F/projects/artfla/databases/asp/imld/fulltext/IMAGE/.5908%26sortorder%3Ddocsequence+Gaik+Ovakimian&hl=en&start=16 The Routine of an Underground Agent], from ''This Deception''. New York, NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1951), pp.&nbsp;335.

=== Source ===

=== Sources ===

* [http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/ci/docs/ci3/ch1.pdf National Counter Intelligence Center, ''Cold War Counterintelligence'']

* [http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/ci/docs/ci3/ch1.pdf National Counter Intelligence Center, ''Cold War Counterintelligence'']

* [http://www.nacic.gov/contact/privacy/privacy_page6.html#copyright National Counter Intelligence Center, Copyright Notice]

* [http://www.nacic.gov/contact/privacy/privacy_page6.html#copyright National Counter Intelligence Center, Copyright Notice]

*''Ich war Stalins Spionin in den USA''. Teile I - VI. In: ''Die Zeit'', 1.6.- 6.7.1950. (In German).

*''Ich war Stalins Spionin in den USA''. Teile I - VI. In: ''Die Zeit'', 1.6.- 6.7.1950. (In German).

*''This Deception''. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York 1951.

*''This Deception''. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York 1951.

*''Richard Sorge: der fast vollkommene Spion''. In: ''Deutsche Rundschau'', Vol. 79, 1953, No. 4, pp. 360-377.

*''Richard Sorge: der fast vollkommene Spion''. In: ''Deutsche Rundschau'', Vol. 79, 1953, No. 4, pp.&nbsp;360–377.

*''Die große Täuschung. Geschichte einer Sowjetagentin''. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, n.d. [1967] (In German).

*''Die große Täuschung. Geschichte einer Sowjetagentin''. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, n.d. [1967] (In German).

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