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Massing had been at one time married to [[Gerhart Eisler]], the [[Comintern]] representative in the United States.  Massing and later her husband, [[Paul Massing]] were members of an [[OGPU]] apparatus and functioned under the direction of 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.  [[Laurence Duggan]] was among her recruits.  In 1935 Massing at a Communist cell meeting in a private home argued with [[Alger Hiss ]] over whether [[Noel Field]], a State Department spy, should work with her group or with The [[GRU]].

Massing had been at one time married to [[Gerhart Eisler]], the [[Comintern]] representative in the United States.  Massing and later her husband, [[Paul Massing]] were members of an [[OGPU]] apparatus and functioned under the direction of 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.  [[Laurence Duggan]] was among her recruits.  In 1935 Massing at a Communist cell meeting in a private home argued with [[Alger Hiss ]] over whether [[Noel Field]], a State Department spy, should work with her group or with The [[GRU]].

Massing left the Soviet intelligence apparatus in 1938 after a period of disillusionment with her Russian handlers. Hede Massing did not admit to her work in Soviet espionage until 1947 and testified at the second trial of [[Alger Hiss]]. Covername "Redhead" occured in Venona as an unidentified in a context that suggests that it was Hede Massing, and was identified as Massing in Robert L. Benson's ''The Venona Story'', page 36.

Massing left the Soviet intelligence apparatus in 1938 after a period of disillusionment with her Russian handlers. Hede Massing did not admit to her work in Soviet espionage until 1947 and testified at the second trial of [[Alger Hiss]]. Covername "Redhead" occurred in Venona as an unidentified in a context that suggests that it was Hede Massing, and was identified as Massing in Robert L. Benson's ''The Venona Story'', page 36.

==Redhead group==

==Redhead group==

=== Source ===

=== Source ===

* [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]