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▪ 2001Ursula Ruth KuczynskiGerman-born Soviet espionage agent and writer (b. May 15, 1907, Berlin, Ger.—d. July 7, 2000, Berlin), was a committed communist who operated as a spy for the Soviet Union in China, Nazi Germany, Switzerland, and England beginning in about 1930. Using the code name Sonya, she gathered and transmitted classified intelligence to Moscow, including technical information supplied by the German-born British physicist Klaus Fuchs about the Manhattan Project's research into the atomic bomb. After World War II she settled in East Germany, where she took the pen name Ruth Werner and became a celebrated writer of short stories, novels, and an autobiography, Sonja's Rapport (1977; Sonya's Report, 1991).
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