Hede Massing Papers
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http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6m3nf2s4 No online items Inventory of the Hede Massing papers Finding aid prepared by Sally DeBauche Hoover Institution Archives 434 Galvez Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA, 94305-6010 (650) 723-3563 [email protected] © 2008 Inventory of the Hede Massing 83038 1 papers Title: Hede Massing papers Date (inclusive): 1918-1980 Collection Number: 83038 Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Archives Language of Material: In English and German. Physical Description: 2 manuscript boxes(0.8 linear feet) Abstract: Correspondence, writings, police reports, clippings, and photographs, relating to Soviet espionage activities in the United States. Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives Creator: Massing, Hede. Access Collection is open for research. The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to copies of audiovisual items. 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Biographical/Historical Note Massing was born in 1900 in Austria. She joined the Communist Party around 1920 when she met Gerhart Eisler, her first husband, and prominent member of the German Communist Party. Between 1933-1937, Massing served as a Soviet espionage agent in the United States. Later she renounced her allegiance to the Soviet Union, after becoming, as she described it, disenchanted with the direction of the Communist movement under Stalin. Following this decision, she became an outspoken anti-Communist. In 1949, Massing testified in the Alger Hiss espionage trial, where she maintained that Hiss had been involved in Soviet espionage activities. In 1951, Massing published an account of her work as a Soviet espionage agent in her book, “This Deception.” Massing continued to write and speak publicly about her role in Soviet espionage as well as other subjects for the rest of her life. Scope and Content of Collection Correspondence, writings, police reports, clippings, and photographs, relating to Soviet espionage activities in the United States. Copies of French and Swiss police reports, detailing the investigation of the Ignace Reiss murder in 1937. Subjects and Indexing Terms Chambers, Whittaker. Hiss, Alger. Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 Weyl, Nathaniel, 1910-2005 Espionage, Russian--United States. Photographs 1940-1979, undated Inventory of the Hede Massing 83038 2 papers Photographs 1940-1979, undated Box/Folder 1 : 2, Press photographs, Paul Massing undated Box/Folder 1 : 2 Box/Folder 1 : 10 Hede Massing, Paul Massing, friends 1940-1979 Writing Box/Folder 1 : 9 "Christmas in Santa Monica," draft undated "Doomsday for Alger Hiss" Box/Folder 1 : 4, Correspondence 1978 Box/Folder 1 : 18 "Im Handgepäck um die Welt" undated Box/Folder 1 : 11 Manuscript undated Box/Folder 1 : 12 Manuscript, English translation undated Box/Folder 2 : 2 "This Deception" correspondence 1951-1975 Box/Folder 1 : 18 "Why I Don't Ski," draft 1956-1978 Correspondence Box/Folder 2 : 6 Roger Baldwin undated Box/Folder 2 : 5 Whittaker Chambers 1951-1959 Box/Folder 1 : 14 Fischer Family 1933-1934 Box/Folder 1 : 5 Babette Hess 1979-1980 Box/Folder 2 : 3 Jeno Kolb 1918-1920 Box/Folder 1 : 8, Paul Massing 1930-1977 Box/Folder 1 : 13, Box/Folder 1 : 15, Box/Folder 1 : 17, Box/Folder 2 : 7, Box/Folder 2 : 11 Box/Folder 2 : 8 Albert Ponsold 1965-1976, undated Box/Folder 1 : 6 Upton Sinclair 1931 Box/Folder 2 : 10 Speaking engagements 1951-1954 Box/Folder 2 : 13 Real estate 1969-1971 Box/Folder 2 : 17 Financial 1968-1971 Box/Folder 1 : 16, General correspondence 1920-1978 Box/Folder 2 : 4, Box/Folder 2 : 9, Box/Folder 2 : 12, Box/Folder 2 : 16, Box/Folder 2 : 18 Personal 1926, undated Box/Folder 1 : 1 Biographical sketch of Hede Massing undated Box/Folder 1 : 3 Resume undated Box/Folder 2 : 15 Vienna residency certificate 1926 Box/Folder 1 : 7 Ignace Reiss death investigation, French and Swiss police reports 1937 Box/Folder 2 : 1 Inventory of the Hede Massing 83038 3 papers Personal 1926, undated Gerhart Eisler obituaries, newspaper clippings 1952-1968 Box/Folder 2 : 14 Ericha Glaser Wallach memorandum 1957 Inventory of the Hede Massing 83038 4 papers.