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I remember how we used to go to offices and huddle around discussing the one TV show we’d all watched the previous night, like Mad Men. There was no water cooler per se, but apparently not too many years before then all non-work-related office chatter was required by law to take place around one, and so we would still call these water-cooler shows. We’ve lost our offices, and our water-cooler shows too; but reclaimed a water cooler of sorts. It’s called Slack or (particularly outside the U.S.) WhatsApp. Advertisement But the notion of a water-cooler show was killed by the Balkanized st...

Ursula Kuczynski, aka 'Agent Sonya.' | Images from the collection of the Hamburger family. / via Penguin Publishers Ben MacIntyre, a British writer for The London Times, is known to spy thriller fans as the author of meticulously researched biographies of famous 20th-century spies. 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 from a distinguished family of academics. By her teenage years—especially after being beaten by a policeman’s truncheon ...

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In the final part of our spine-tingling new series by top espionage writer Ben Macintyre, we reveal how the net of the security services began to close around Soviet superspy Agent Sonya. However, thanks to the efforts of a comically inept MI5 surveillance chief, she was able to evade detention and prepared to flee back to the East . . .  Resolute: Ursula Kuczynski — aka Agent Sonya — lived till she was 93 The picturesque hamlet of Great Rollright in the heart of the north Oxfordshire Cotswolds was remote and exceedingly quiet when Ursula Beurton moved there with her three children in 1...

Yesterday, in the first part of a spine-tingling new series by top espionage writer BEN MACINTYRE, we revealed how a sex-mad Soviet agent posed as a Cotswolds housewife to run a cabal of Communist spies from her cottage.  Here, we tell how she delighted her masters — and even Stalin himself — with her access to the very heart of Britain's top-secret atom bomb research... When housewife and mother Ursula Beurton — in reality, Major Ursula Kuczynski of the Red Army, a Soviet spy who had conducted espionage operations in China, Poland and Switzerland — landed at Liverpool on a ship from...