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==GRU==

==GRU==

As I understand it, Massing's failure to recruit Noel Field was because Field already worked with [[Alger Hiss]] & the GRU, while Massing was a Comintern & NKVD operative.  Can we get this part correct?  [[User:RobSmith|Rob Smith]] 15:11, 19 March 2010 (EDT)

As I understand it, Massing's failure to recruit Noel Field was because Field already worked with [[Alger Hiss]] & the GRU, while Massing was a Comintern & NKVD operative.  Can we get this part correct?  [[User:RobSmith|Rob Smith]] 15:11, 19 March 2010 (EDT)

:I will have a look at the book on Field, I just hope this stuff is visible on Google. As far as I know by now Hede Gumperz was recruited in Frankfurt/Main by R. Sorge prob. in 1928, her boss at the GRU was Ignaz Reiss. She did various jobs in Europe. When Paul Massing went to Moskau, she followed him and received more training. In the USA they were not GRU, but, as you say NKVD. --[[User:Radh|Radh]] 15:34, 19 March 2010 (EDT)

:I will have a look at the book on Field, I just hope this stuff is visible on Google. As far as I know by now Hede Gumperz was recruited in Frankfurt/Main by R. Sorge prob. in 1928, her boss at the GRU was Ignaz Reiss. She did various jobs in Europe. When Paul Massing went to Moskau, she followed him and received more training. In the USA they were not GRU, but, as you say NKVD.

::P.S.: I think I found your Field-Hiss-Massing thing, but this really is murky. There def. was a misunderstanding in the spring of 1936: Field wanted to recruit Hiss, but was told he was alredy working for "another" service (Massing/IMO of the NKVD), Massing's boss in NYC then got problems with Moscov and told Massing to forget about Hiss and that it was too bad Hiss knew about Massing and her work. All this seems to have been important, because after the war the Soviets simply said, look Hiss never worked for the KGB, so he never was a spy or something like that.--[[User:Radh|Radh]] 15:34, 19 March 2010 (EDT)

::Sounds vaguely familiar. I'll have a look at sourcing, too.  [[User:RobSmith|Rob Smith]] 15:43, 19 March 2010 (EDT)

::Sounds vaguely familiar. I'll have a look at sourcing, too.  [[User:RobSmith|Rob Smith]] 15:43, 19 March 2010 (EDT)