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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
hooverarchives@stanford.edu
© 2008

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 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
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Hede Massing papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1983.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the
collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid.
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

   

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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

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Personal 1926, undated

Gerhart Eisler obituaries, newspaper clippings 1952-1968

Box/Folder 2 : 14

Ericha Glaser Wallach memorandum 1957

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