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Martha Eccles Dodd (October 8, 1908 – August 10, 1990) was an American journalist and novelist. The daughter of William Edward Dodd , [ 5 ] US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 's first Ambassador to Germany, Dodd lived in Berlin from 1933–1937 [ 6 ] and was a witness to the rise of the Third Reich .
In December 1943, Zarubina drove with Morros to Connecticut, where they met with Alfred Stern and his wife Martha Dodd Stern. Soviet intelligence wanted to use an investment from the Sterns in Morros' sheet music company to serve as cover for espionage. The Sterns invested $130,000 in the Boris Morros Music Company.
Alfred Kaufman Stern: Philanthropist: United States: 1957: Czechoslovakia Martha Dodd Stern: Philanthropist: United States: 1957: Czechoslovakia Ernie Fletcher: United States Army: United States: 1959: East Germany [61] Klaus Fuchs: Atomic spy: United Kingdom: 1959: Exchanged to East Germany Ho Ye-Chen: Republic of China Army: Taiwan: 1959 ...
Verdict: Unsubstantiated. Dodd said that she never met a communist priest in a 1961 video. The claim rests on the words of others. Fact Check: Social media users are claiming that Dodd, a former ...
Martha, separated from her husband and in the process of divorce, became caught up in the glamor and excitement of Berlin's social scene and had a series of liaisons, most of them sexual, including among them Gestapo head Rudolf Diels and Soviet attaché and secret agent Boris Vinogradov. She defended the regime to her skeptical friends.
Howard Stern finds his marriage hard to fathom. The 65-year-old radio personality was two years separated from his first wife when he met model-actress Beth Ostrosky.
Thus, Dodd Jr. was fired from the TASS offices, never to have further contact with Soviet intelligence. Martha and Stern eventually attempted to flee to the Soviet Union during the Khrusshchev era, though the Soviets preferred the Sterns live in Czechoslovakia. A KGB document dated October 1975 noted that the Sterns spent 1963-1970 in Cuba.
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