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  1. Ursula Kuczynski (15 May 1907 – 7 July 2000), also known as Ruth Werner, Ursula Beurton and Ursula Hamburger, was a German Communist activist who spied for the Soviet Union during the 1930s and 1940s, most famously as the handler of nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs.

  2. Apr 14, 2021 · Ursula Kuczynski, alias Ruth Werner, alias Agent Sonya, was a Red Army officer and an expert in radio communication, a saboteur, a first-rate spy and a successful writer. She achieved all of...

  3. Mar 9, 2022 · Operating under at least five different names in the course of her career, Ursula Kuczynski was a singularly accomplished intelligence agent whose espionage activities spanned some fifteen years, from 1931 to 1946.

  4. Sep 3, 2021 · In 1935, the spy “Sonya,” whose real name was Ursula Maria Kuczynski, found herself in an almost impossible situation. On the eve of embarking on a new mission on behalf of the Soviet Union, she discovered that she was pregnant, the result of an affair with her commander in the communist underground in China.

  5. Feb 16, 2021 · The latest in his series is a comprehensive biography of Jewish German-born Ursula Kuczynski, later also known as Ursula Hamburger, Ursula Beurton, and Ruth Werner. Born in 1907, Ursula came...

  6. Ursula Kuczynski, aka Agent Sonya, is one history's most effective spies. As an intelligence gatherer for the Soviet military, she helped usher in the age of Mutually Assured Destruction during the bloody 1940s. In 2020, a newly declassified document muddied the waters. Who was Sonya really working for?

  7. Jul 7, 2000 · She was born Ursula Kuczynski in Berlin on May 15, 1907 to a Polish Jewish family who supported the German Communist party—the British secret service MI5 had a KAEOT (“keep an eye on them”) file on her family as early as 1928.

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