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  1. 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 these things while raising a family, which was both a perfect alibi and a fateful trap.

  2. Sep 3, 2021 · The Jewish Housewife Who Became a Soviet Nuclear Super-spy. Ursula Kuczynski was a full-time mother until a meeting in Shanghai transformed her into ‘Sonya.’. Her biographer describes the Jewish KGB spy's career, which climaxed with the theft of American atomic secrets. A 1936 image of Ursula Kuczynski, who spied for the Soviets through ...

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    • Of Skullduggery and Deception
    • Her Name Was Ursula
    • Where Her Loyalties Lay
    • The Unassuming 'Mrs. Beurton'

    "This probably reflects very badly on me, but I am fascinated by these terrible characters who live double lives and lives of skullduggery and deception. "In my case, it started very early on. Before I even left school at the University of Cambridge, I was approached by one of my teachers who asked me if I'd meet somebody from the Foreign Office wh...

    "Ursula's story lurks, as it were, in the background of a lot of other spy stories. She appears as this rather shadowy figure. Partly because she was a woman, she has never really been treated with the same respect that would be accorded to her had she been a man. "And in fact, she was quite the equal and a far better spy than many of those that I'...

    "Ursula came from a bourgeois Jewish intellectual academic family. Her parents were really quite well off. They lived in a rather exclusive suburb of Berlin. "Ursula grew up between the wars during the Weimar Republic, that extraordinary chaotic period in German history which was both economically disastrous, but also intellectually and culturally ...

    "It seems like a strange thing to say, but in a way, Ursula's greatest disguise, her best camouflage, was her gender. "The fact that she was a woman made her invisible to successive people who were out for her blood, even those who really suspected her. So she was hunted over the years, not just by the Chinese secret police, but by the Japanese Kem...

  3. Ursula Kuczynski. Ursula Kuczynski (15 May 1907 – 7 July 2000), [1] 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] [3] She moved to East Germany in 1950 when Fuchs was ...

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  5. Ursula Kuczynski was a mother, housewife, novelist, expert radio technician, spymaster, courier, saboteur, bomb-maker, Cold Warrior and secret agent, all at the same time.” “Agent Sonya” – the story of the Soviet Union’s most important female spy “Agent Sonya” By Ben Macintyre 354 pages Published Sept., 2020 Available on Amazon

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  7. Jan 2, 2021 · The married mother of three was actually Ursula Kuczynski, a colonel in the Soviet military and one of the most significant spies of World War II and the Cold War. Born a German Jew, she went by the code name Sonya and ran one of the 20th century’s most effective espionage rings.

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