Greta Garbo Aided a Man Who Developed the Atomic Bomb
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Swedish-born American film actress Greta Garbo was an international star in the mid-1920s. By the time she retired at the relatively young age of 35, she had been nominated for four Academy Awards. Her retirement coincidentally coincided with America’s entry into World War II in 1941. It’s believed she was recruited as a British spy and participated in several highly classified missions. She allegedly helped smuggled Niels Bohr, who helped develop the atomic bomb, from Copenhagen to Britain. Garbo was able to do so with the aid of Winston Churchill’s special envoy and the help of a Canadian spy named Sir William Stephenson.