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After the Second World War, she wrote about [[Richard Sorge]], who had recruited her to the [[GRU]], for a German magazine<ref>Hede Massing: ''Richard Sorge, der fast vollkommene Spion'', ''Deutsche Rundschau'', Vol. 79, No. 4, pp. 360-377. On Sorge see also: ''Herr Sorge saß mit am Tisch. Portrait eines Spions'', ''Der Spiegel'', Mittwoch (Wednesday), 13. Juni 1951, p. 34.</ref> and called him a near perfect spy. Massing had first met [[Richard Sorge]] as a young communist in 1923. In her article she recalled a meeting they had in New York in 1935.

After the Second World War, she wrote about [[Richard Sorge]], who had recruited her to the [[GRU]], for a German magazine<ref>Hede Massing: ''Richard Sorge, der fast vollkommene Spion'', ''Deutsche Rundschau'', Vol. 79, No. 4, pp. 360-377. On Sorge see also: ''Herr Sorge saß mit am Tisch. Portrait eines Spions'', ''Der Spiegel'', Mittwoch (Wednesday), 13. Juni 1951, p. 34.</ref> and called him a near perfect spy. Massing had first met [[Richard Sorge]] as a young communist in 1923. In her article she recalled a meeting they had in New York in 1935.

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. 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]].