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Martha Dodd

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American journalist, novelist and spy for the Soviet Union (1908-1990)

United StatesWritersLived 1908 to 1990 · aged 81
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Martha Eccles Dodd was an American journalist and novelist. The daughter of William Edward Dodd, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first Ambassador to Germany, Dodd lived in Berlin from 1933-1937 and was a witness to the rise of the Third Reich.

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Martha Eccles Dodd was an American journalist and novelist. The daughter of William Edward Dodd, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first Ambassador to Germany, Dodd lived in Berlin from 1933-1937 and was a witness to the rise of the Third Reich. She became involved in left-wing politics after she witnessed first-hand the violence of the Nazi state. With her second husband, Alfred Stern Jr., she engaged in espionage for the Soviet Union from before World War II until the height of the Cold War.

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Lived 1908 to 1990 · aged 81
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