Sisters with secrets, told and untold
Left: Ursula – codenamed ‘Agent Sonya’. Right: Renate – spent years in Cuba under Castro I DON’T know who I admire the most of two sisters – the one who kept her secrets to herself or the one whose secrets went on to shock the world! Of the two, I only got to know Renate, a seemingly austere woman with a kind smile, whose elegant upper floor flat Tavistock Place, Holborn, I used to visit. I knew Renate Simpson and her husband, Arthur, a leading marine biologist who talked exotically of their years in Cuba under Fidel Castro where they helped the government in what seemed biologica...