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'''Hede Massing''' or '''Hedda Massing''', nee '''Hedwiga Gompertz''' or '''Hede Gompertz''', an Austrian-born Soviet intelligence operative who served in the United States in the 1930s.  She wrote for the German magazine ''[[Der Spiegel]]''.  Massing knew [[Richard Sorge]] as a young man in Germany and met him again in New York in 1935 after his recruitment and wrote about him in 1951 for ''Der Spiegel''.

'''Hede Massing''' or '''Hedda Massing''', née '''Hedwig Tune''', later: '''Hede Eisler''', later: '''Hede Gumperz''', an Austrian-born Soviet intelligence operative who served in the United States in the 1930s.  She was an actress and worked as a journalist, after the Second World War for the German magazine ''[[Der Spiegel]]''.  Massing had met [[Richard Sorge]] as a young man in 1923 in Germany and saw him again in New York in 1935 long after his recruitment and wrote about him in 1951 for ''Der Spiegel''.

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 married from 1919 to 1923 to [[Gerhart Eisler]], who in the 1930s was the [[Comintern]] representative in the United States. Her second husband (from 1923 to 1928) was the then communist journalist and publisher Julian Gumperz. Massing and later her third 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]].

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