Martha Dodd

Martha Dodd

Martha Eccles Dodd (October 8, 1908 - August 10, 1990) and her husband spied for the Soviet Union against her native United States from before World War II until the height of the Cold War. She had lived in Berlin early in the Third Reich (1933–1937) with her father William Edward Dodd, then United States Ambassador to Germany. She became involved in left-wing politics after she witnessed first-hand the violence of the Nazi state.