Hede Massing, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hede Massing

Austrian actor and soviet spy

Date of Birth: 06-Jan-1900

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 08-Mar-1981

Profession: journalist, spy

Nationality: United States, Austria

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Hede Massing, née "Hedwig Tune" (also "Hede Eisler," "Hede Gumperz," and "Redhead") (6 January 1900 – 8 March 1981), 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.