She later wrote that she "became temporarily an ardent defender of everything going on" and admired the "glowing and inspiring faith in Hitler, the good that was being done for the unemployed.
[8] She had numerous relationships while in Berlin, including with Ernst Udet and with French diplomat Armand Berard, later France's ambassador to the United Nations.
[16] In September 1933, Martha Dodd first met a young Soviet diplomat, Boris Vinogradov, at a dance in Berlin.
People in her social circle were begging the Americans for help and the Dodd family found its phones tapped and their servants enlisted as spies.
[8] In March 1934, the NKVD ordered intelligence officer Boris Vinogradov (under diplomatic cover in Berlin as press attache) to recruit his lover, Dodd, as an agent.
"[21] Vinogradov and Dodd began a romantic relationship that lasted for years, even after he left Berlin; in 1936 they asked Joseph Stalin for permission to marry.
"[28] After the Dodds left Germany in December, 1937,[29] Iskhak Akhmerov, NKVD rezident in New York City, managed her espionage work.
In reality [she] is a typical representative of American bohemia, a sexually decayed woman ready to sleep with any handsome man.
"[35] Stern established a music publishing house that served as a cover for routing information to the Soviet Union.
[36][37] Dodd and Stern proved of little value to the Soviets beyond providing the publishing house cover and occasionally recommending someone as a potential agent.
[38] As part of the Soble spy ring, Miss Dodd (code named Liza) recommended Jane Foster to infiltrate the OSS.
[42] In 1955, Dodd published The Searching Light, a defense of academic freedom that told the story of a professor under pressure to sign a loyalty oath.
[7] In July 1956, subpoenaed to testify in several espionage cases, Dodd and Stern fled to Prague via Mexico with their nine-year-old adopted son Robert.
[44] Boris Morros implicated Dodd and Stern in 1957 as Soviet agents as part of his exposure of the Soble spy network.