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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.
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.
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Mar 9, 2022 · Ursula Maria Kuczynski, born in 1907 in Berlin, was raised in a progressive family and later became active in espionage for the Soviet army. She moved to China in 1930 and began attending clandestine meetings and doing work for Chinese communists.
Sep 18, 2020 · Shortly after Fuchs confessed to being a Soviet mole to MI5 in 1950, Kuczynski, the daughter of German Jews, feared she was about to be unmasked and returned hastily to her childhood home of...
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...
Mar 5, 2021 · Real name Ursula Kuczynski, Agent Sonya was a German Communist activist who worked for the Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s as a spy. (Submitted by the Hamburger family, submitted by Peter...
Ursula Kuczynski, aka Agent Sonya, is one history's most effective spies. As an intelligence-gatherer for the Soviet military, she helped to 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?
