Female spies, these three words, I don't know how many men think of it. They are professionally trained, and they have an innate feminine advantage over male spies, making it easier to obtain intelligence. There is no shortage of well-known female spies in history, such as Yoshiko Kawashima during the Japanese invasion of China, which is a typical example.
Today I am not going to talk about Yoshiko Kawashima, but another woman. She was a spy for the Soviet KGB and had charmed Einstein, the strongest brain of mankind in the last century. Even after the East Window Incident, after returning to China, Einstein has always maintained correspondence with her, which can be described as deep love.
The female spy, Margarita Conekuva, settled in the United States in 1924 with her husband after receiving official approval, where she specialized in gathering high-tech intelligence in the United States.
Since Margarita Konekuva's husband was a well-known sculptor, at his recommendation, Margarita Konekuva entered Princeton University. At the time, Einstein was teaching at Princeton University. It was here that Konekuva came into contact with Einstein.
As we all know, Eastern Europe is rich in beautiful women, and Konekuva, as a spy, is even more outstanding. Soon, her beauty attracted Einstein's attention, and since both she and Einstein were peace-loving anti-war activists, Einstein was furious with her. Einstein, who took the initiative, wrote a lot of love letters to Konekuva, and the two of them came and went, and Konekuva almost forgot about herself and her husband.
But there was one thing she hadn't forgotten, and that was her spy mission. She racked her brains to approach the researchers in the "Manhattan Project" in the United States at that time, trying to find a way to obtain first-hand information on nuclear weapons and transmit them back to the Soviet Union.
Because of anti-war ideology, Einstein was not a direct participant in the program at the time, but he became a technical adviser to the program. And the direct person in charge of the project, Heisenberg and Oppenheimer, are Einstein's good friends. The three often discuss technical issues together.
Using Einstein's connections, Konekuva took a lot of first-hand information on the production of nuclear weapons. After it was transmitted back to the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union still could not build it due to the lack of corresponding nuclear physics researchers. Therefore, the Soviet Union wanted Einstein to meet with the people of the Soviet consulate and give corresponding guidance, so as to complete the task of making nuclear weapons.
But for Einstein to meet with people at the Soviet consulate, Konekuva had to reveal her identity as a spy. So Konekuva confessed to Einstein and confessed her true purpose. Seeing Konekuva in tears in front of him, Einstein was a little unbearable, he knew that if he did not make an appointment, Konekuva was likely to be secretly executed by the Soviet Union. For the sake of the beloved woman, Einstein still agreed.
Of course, there is another reason why Einstein agreed. At that time, the United States had just dropped 2 atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were so powerful that they shocked the world and worried Einstein. He was afraid that the United States, with such a strong weapon, would follow the old path of dictatorship and fascism like Germany, so he helped the Soviet Union to build its own nuclear weapons to balance the United States.
Because Konekuva's identity was exposed, she could no longer stay in the United States, and she and her husband received a strong reward from the Soviet government after returning home. Subsequently, Konekuva chose to end her spy career and went to the countryside with her husband. Since then, Konekuva has been exchanging letters with Einstein, soothing Einstein's wounded heart.
It can be seen that there is still love between Konekuva and Einstein, but in that special era, love and so on, in the end, the enemy is nothing more than a cold political barrier.