{"id":2303,"date":"2025-06-19T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/06\/19\/more-on-agent-sonya\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:36:16","slug":"more-on-agent-sonya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/06\/19\/more-on-agent-sonya\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Agent Sonya"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/b>I had completely forgotten that my blog had at least two posts on Agent Sonya way back in 2009. I know there is a lot of interest in her alleged radio derring-do. <\/b><\/p>\n

Here are the two blog posts from 2009: <\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/sonya-had-knack.html<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/sonyas-rig.html<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

And here is my 2025 post on Sonya: <\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2025\/04\/agent-sonya-did-soviet-spies-really.html<\/a><\/b><\/u><\/p>\n

One friend recently mentioned that we have not seen any museum evidence of these kinds of homebrew spy rigs. If this really was a widespread practice, you would expect to find at least ONE of these rigs in a museum somewhere. Has anyone seen this kind of thing? <\/b><\/p>\n

Here is something more recent about Sonya from the National WWII Museum in New Orleans: <\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NU9-APiIUaQ<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

The Macintyre interview is really interesting. A friend told me that he is a very serious writer on the topic of espionage, whose assertions have to be taken seriously. For our purproses, here are some highllights:<\/b><\/p>\n

22:18 Sonya goes through Soviet Spy School and is trained on how to build radios.<\/b><\/p>\n

24:50 In China under Japanese occupation, had bamboo poles supporting antenna over her house! <\/b><\/p>\n

25:40 Transferred to Switzerland, “built another radio.”<\/b><\/p>\n

34:18 Transferred to UK, built a “powerful radio transmitter in her loo.” <\/b><\/p>\n

51:41 Macintyre refers to Sonya as “the only Soviet radio operator in Switzerland.” <\/b><\/p>\n

So, I still don’t know about the claim that Sonya was homebrewing radios. It does appear that Sonya was building them. But it also seems like she was more of a radio operator than she was a spy… Perhaps the Soviets didn’t see the same distinction that we do. Still, it would be nice to find in a museum somewhere at least one example of Sonya-style homebrew radio. <\/b><\/p>\n

Macintyre says that “all biography is burglary.” What would autobiography be? <\/b><\/p>\n


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I had completely forgotten that my blog had at least two posts on Agent Sonya way back in 2009. I know there is a lot of interest in her alleged radio derring-do. Here are the two blog posts from 2009: https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/sonya-had-knack.html https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/sonyas-rig.html And here is my 2025 post on Sonya: https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2025\/04\/agent-sonya-did-soviet-spies-really.html One friend recently mentioned … Continue reading “More on Agent Sonya”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,95,100,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antennas","category-germany","category-old-radio","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}