consultant at Board of Economic Warfare; Deputy Chief of the Central European Section of Office of Strategic Services; First Chief of research of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. Miscellaneous Richard Sorge Hede Massing had first met Richard Sorge at the Marxist Workweek in 1923 that led to the establishment of the Frankfurt School. Sorge later recruited her to the Soviet underground, introducing her to Ignace Reiss. In her autobiography This Deception, she wrote about Sorge and a meeting they had in New York in 1935. In an essay for the Neue Rundschau in 1953, "Richard Sorge: der fast vollkommene Spion" she called him a "near-perfect spy." Amtorg Massing was an employee of the Amtorg Trading Corporation. Works This Deception (1951) "Richard Sorge: der fast vollkommene Spion" in Deutsche Rundschau, Vol. 79, No. 4, pp. 360–377 (1953) Die große Täuschung. Geschichte einer Sowjetagentin (1967) See also German Communist Party Gerhart Eisler Rote Fahne Julian Gumperz Malik publishers Richard Sorge Ignace Reiss Paul Massing Franz Leopold Neumann Laurence Duggan Noel Field Alger Hiss Whittaker Chambers References External sources Ausgewählte Kurzbiographien, Massing, Hede. In: Bernd Rainer Barth and Werner Schweizer: Der Fall Noel Field, Basisdruck, 2006 (2 Vols.), Vol. 2, p. 426 f.. (In German) Woman With a Past, Time Magazine, Monday, 19 Dec. 1949 Office of National Counter Intelligence Executive, Cold War Counterintelligence Office of National Counter Intelligence Executive, Copyright Notice Image from University of Iowa Libraries' "Traveling Culture" Image from Library of Congress "Traveling Culture" Image from The Wall Street Journal (2009) Hede Massing papers at the Hoover Institution Archives German journalists Austrian spies for the Soviet Union Admitted Soviet spies Soviet spies against the United States Venona project Writers from Vienna 1900 births 1981 deaths 20th-century Austrian journalists Burials at Farkasréti Cemetery