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The arrest of a British embassy guard is a reminder the German capital's long history as spy central continues – even in the digital age

Ben Macintyre is a British author, historian, reviewer and columnist for The Times.(Justine Stoddart) comments Writers and Company1:01:59Ben Macintyre tells the fascinating true story of the only woman to become a top Soviet spy Mrs. Len Beurton of Great Rollright, a tiny village in the Cotswolds, was an apparently ordinary housewife and mother of three, famous for her home-baked scones. In reality, she was Agent Sonya, a top Soviet operative, transmitting plans for the atomic bomb from an outhouse in her Oxfordshire garden. Her real name was Ursula Kuczynski and her intelligence work took h...

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 ...

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...