Defection
Massing said in her memoir that she had left the Soviet intelligence apparatus in the late 1930s after a period of disillusionment with her Russian handlers and the Stalinist trials.
Her intelligence work only ended with the war and in 1947 she came clean and testified at the second trial of Alger Hiss.
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“The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)