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- These “Good Germans” were supposedly spying for America; in reality, they were working for Colonel Kuczynski of Great Rollright. But Mrs Burton’s most important undercover job was one that would shape the future of the world: she was helping the Soviet Union to build the atom bomb.
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Sep 15, 2020 · But Mrs Burton’s most important undercover job was one that would shape the future of the world: she was helping the Soviet Union to build the atom bomb. [ Return to the...
Becoming Ms. Burton emphasizes the impact a criminal record on an individual, and how the consequences follow her forever. Ex-cons can’t access many job or educational opportunities. They struggle with poverty, anxiety, and depression; life after prison feels overwhelming. Families, Burton says, are needlessly torn apart by America’s broken ...
Jun 1, 2021 · But Mrs Burton’s most important undercover job was one that would shape the future of the world: she was helping the Soviet Union to build the atom bomb. For years, Ursula had run a network of communist spies deep inside Britain’s atomic-weapons research programme, passing on information to Moscow that would eventually enable Soviet ...
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Kuczynski set up home in Berlin’s Soviet zone, having evaded Britain’s domestic intelligence service and safe in the knowledge that she had done the Communist cause – to which she had been devoted since a teenager – a distinguished service by helping to steal one of the most potent secrets of the 20th century. It was far from the only secret she ha...
In a previously unseen memo written in January 1953, a senior figure in MI5’s counter-espionage department wrote to MI6 suggesting that its agents approach Ursula and her brother with an “all is forgiven” offer of immunity. The memo said: “These persons are likely to possess valuable information about Russian espionage, and it is worth going to con...
At the same time, Mr Macintyre points out that, as a highly experienced intelligence officer who had evaded detection during her career by the counter-espionage services of China, Japan, Nazi Germany and Britain, Kuczynski would naturally have been ultra-wary of any such offers. Either way, fate had different plans for the former Mrs Burton. Adopti...
She worked as a spy for the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1950, relaying America’s scientific secrets to the U.S.S.R. — and helping to intensify the Cold War. Her neighbors in the English village of Great Rollright knew her simply as Mrs. Burton. Her code name was Agent Sonya. MACINTYRE: I’m Ben Macintyre.
Widely hailed as a stunning memoir, Becoming Ms. Burton is the remarkable life story of the renowned activist Susan Burton. In this “stirring and moving tour-de-force” (John Legend), Susan Burton movingly recounts her own journey through the criminal justice system and her transformation into a life of advocacy. After a childhood of immense pain, poverty, and abuse in Los Angeles, the ...
Sep 9, 2017 · Knowing that 90% of incarcerated women have suffered some form of sexual abuse or physical violence isn’t the same as hearing what that means when it is described from the point of view of a 3 year old, a ten year and a 14 year old rape victim now a mother. This is how Susan Burton’s life began.
