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."