An Impeccable Spy
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Ursula Kuczynski, alias Ruth Werner.
Hede Massing.
Hotsumi Ozaki, the idealistic Japanese journalist who worked with Sorge in Shanghai and became his most valuable agent in Japan.
The Tokyo Spy Ring (top left to right, bottom left to right): Yotoku Miyagi, the consumptive painter who became the spy ring’s most indefatigable leg-man; Branko Vukelić, the failed Croatian journalist recruited in Paris as the ring’s photographer, with his Japanese wife Yoshiko Yamasaki; Max Clausen, Sorge’s trusty radio man in Shanghai who followed him to Tokyo; Max’s wife Anna Clausen.
Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott, whose unshakeable trust in his friend Sorge enabled a great espionage career.
Helma Ott, wife of Eugen and lover of Sorge.
The German Embassy in Tokyo.
Eugen and Helma visit the palace, Tokyo, 1938.
Hanako Miyake, Sorge’s longstanding Japanese mistress.
Rear-Admiral Paul ‘Paulchen’ Wenneker, one of Sorge’s most devoted bottle-mates and informants.
Prince Albrecht von Urach, Tokyo correspondent of the rabidly anti-semitic Völkischer Beobachter, also joined Sorge on his late night drinking binges in Ginza.
‘A face like a ravaged robber baron’ – Sorge after drunkenly crashing his motorcycle.
Sorge in Japanese clothes at home on Nagasaki street.
(left to right) Sorge at the German Embassy dacha, and on one of his regular tours across Japan.
Eta Harich-Schneider, the celebrated harpsichordist who was Sorge’s last lover.
Anita Mohr, the glamorous blonde who was best friend to Helma Ott, Eugen Ott’s love object – and Sorge’s mistress.
Aino Kuusinen, the Comintern princess sent to summon Sorge back to Moscow in 1937.
Prince Fumimaro Konoe, three times prime minister of Japan, who brought Ozaki into his inner circle of advisers.
General Hideki Tojo, who masterminded Japan’s invasion of China as well as the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Manchurian Railway, or Mantetsu, also controlled its own intelligence agency and the army.
Gestapo Colonel Joseph Meisinger, the ‘Butcher of Warsaw’ sent to investigate Sorge.
SS-Brigadeführer and spymaster Walter Schellenberg, who suspected Sorge of being a Soviet agent.
Joseph Stalin looks on as Soviet and German Foreign Ministers Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop sign the non-aggression pact that secretly divided Eastern Europe between Berlin and Moscow.
Stalin greets Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka in Moscow in 1939. By the time of his departure Matsuoka was so drunk that he and Stalin sang folk songs together on the platform.
General Filip Golikov, whose six predecessors as heads of the Fourth Department had all been executed. Golikov suppressed Sorge’s urgent reports of an imminent German invasion.
Sorge’s police photograph after his arrest.
Immortality (clockwise from top left): A Soviet four-kopeck stamp produced after Sorge’s official rehabilitation in 1961; Sorge’s grave in Tokyo, the original humble gravestone paid for by his mistress swamped by the hulking Soviet monument featuring his posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union star; the monument to Sorge in his native Baku.
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