ABSTRACT
Only from the mid-1960s onwards and with the rehabilitation of the Soviet Union's top agent in Japan, Richard Sorge, did Ursula Kuczynski begin tentatively to talk about her own intelligence work. Ursula had lost contact with her first husband and Michael's father, Rudolf Hamburger, after they divorced in Switzerland and he returned to China alone. The conspiratorial and secretive nature of intelligence work meant that they could no longer contact each other even if they had wanted to while they were both still working as secret agents. Rolf agreed to accompany Ursula to Poland probably also in the hope of rescuing their marriage, even though she was at the time pregnant with another man's child. Ursula's son Peter felt that Rolf was still in love with her and would have liked to revive their married life together in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), but she was still happily married to Len.
