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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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Massing later said to had left the Soviet intelligence apparatus in 1938 after a period of disillusionment with her Russian handlers, but in fact both she and her husband continued to work for Soviet intelligence until Germany was defeated. [[Elizabeth Zarubina]] was their Soviet contact during the war. Hede Massing did admit to her work in Soviet espionage in 1947, when the police asked her questions about her first husband, Gerhart Eisler. She 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.

Massing later said to had left the Soviet intelligence apparatus in 1938 after a period of disillusionment with her Russian handlers, but in fact both she and her husband continued to work for Soviet intelligence until Germany was defeated. [[Elizabeth Zarubina]] was their Soviet contact during the war. Hede Massing did admit to her work in Soviet espionage in 1947, when the police asked her questions about her first husband, Gerhart Eisler. She 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.