Anne de Courcy

The ambassador’s daughter bent on betrayal

When the young Martha Dodd arrived at the American embassy in Berlin in 1933 she cared nothing about politics. By the time she left four years later, she was a committed Soviet spy

Martha Dodd, the daughter of the American ambassador in 1930s Berlin. [Getty Images]

  • Traitor’s Odyssey: The Untold Story of Martha Dodd and a Strange Saga of Soviet Espionage

    Brendan McNally

    Icon Books, pp. 384, £25

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