Hede Massing
Journalist, Author
1900 – 1981
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Who was Hede Massing?
Hede Massing, née "Hedwig Tune", was an Austrian actress in Vienna and Berlin, communist, and Soviet intelligence operative in Europe and the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. After World War II, she defected from the Soviet underground. She came to prominence by testifying in the second case of Alger Hiss in 1949; later, she published accounts about the underground.
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- Born
- Jan 6, 1900
Vienna - Also known as
- Hedwig Tune
- Hede Gumperz
- Redhead
- Hede Eisler
- Hedwig Thune
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Gerhart Eisler
(1920/12 - 1923) - Julian Gumperz
(1927 - ) - Paul Massing
- Gerhart Eisler
- Nationality
- Germany
- Austria
- Profession
- Lived in
- Vienna
- Died
- Mar 8, 1981
Washington Square Park
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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