Hede Massing: the spy in our midst

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THE SPY IN OUR MIDST




Not fear, but understanding must be the premise to fight Communism.



HEDE MASSING
This Secret Government Witness of the Alger Hiss Trial Was a Popular Young Actress in Vienna, when She Met and Married Gerhart Eisler, who Introduced Her to Communism … Now She Comes to the Platform with Her Vivid and Exciting Experiences as a Soviet Secret Agent, Revealing Facts Hitherto Told Only to the F.B.I. …  She Tells of the Infinite Danger Faced by America in the Soviet Spy Organization …





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HEDE MASSING



HEDE MASSING,
 the secret government witness of the Hiss-Chambers trial, was a popular young actress in Vienna when she met and married Gerhart Eisler, who was to be a leader of the Comintern in America and at present in Germany.  Gerhart Eisler introduced her to Communism and launched her on her strange, dangerous and, occasionally, glamorous career in the Communist underground of Berlin, Paris, New York and Washington.




Now for the first time she comes to the Platform with her vivid and exciting experiences as a Soviet Secret Agent, revealing facts hitherto told only to the F.B.I.  Her story is not one of Cloak & Dagger intrigue, but of the demanding, nerve-racking day-to-day life of a skilled agent.  Her break with Russian espionage was dramatic.  She tells of the infinite danger faced by America in the Soviet Spy Organization.  She reveals:


Her dealings with Alger Hiss.


How important Washington officials are 
recruited
 to the Russian cause.


Where to find 
reliable
 lawyers for people in trouble.


How lonely women are induced to help Soviet officers.


The Soviet method of hiding espionage behind a bogus 
business.





These are a few of the many facts underlying the entire spy system which Mrs. Massing lays bare—facts which only a trusted agent could know.  Mrs. Massing exposes the Soviet network from A to Z, showing clearly how wideflung and dangerous it is.




Hede Massing is the Mystery Woman who was kept from testifying at the first Hiss trial, and who was a prosecution witness at the second trial.  Previous to the trial, she had been living in seclusion on a Pennsylvania farm, hoping that her past, which she regards with honest revulsion, was buried and forgotten.  As she felt it her duty to testify at the Hiss trial, she feels she must now tell Americans the nature, techniques, and dimensions of the spy organization which still operates daily in our midst.





LECTURE SUBJECTS



Why I Was A Communist


The Spy In Our Midst


An Expose of the Soviet Spy Network in U. S.




In her lectures Hede Massing tells—How she became a Communist and what it offered to her … Why she had to divorce Gerhart Eisler and Communism … What are the possible motivations for men like Hiss, Field, Duggan, Chambers to become Communists, and why do some stick? …  What has Communism and what have we to offer the individual? …  How did she come to work in the Apparatus, and what is an Apparatus? …  The spy in our midst and the reluctance to accept the fact that Hiss is a spy … Not fear, but understanding must be the premise to fight Communism … What Russia really is like for the simple man.  How do people live and function and why do they take it?