codename death_date death_place birth_place allegiance nationality name service birth_date spouse article_title birth_name occupation death_cause
redhead hede eisler hede gumperz 08 march 1981 new york city vienna soviet union 23px austrian hede massing soviet intelligence 06 january 1900 gerhart eisler julian gumperz paul massing hede massing
 hedwig tune spy emphysema
hede massing

hede massing , née `` hedwig tune '' -lrb- also `` hede eisler , '' `` hede gumperz , '' and `` redhead '' -rrb- -lrb- 6 january 1900 -- 8 march 1981 -rrb- , 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 .
