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ST. PETERSBURG -- Albert Einstein may have been a genius, but he was not clever enough to avoid the classic honey pot, in his case a glamorous Soviet secret agent named Maria Konnenkova. Konnenkova dated Einstein in the 1940s in order to gain information on the top-secret Manhattan Project, the U.S. effort to develop the first nuclear bomb. A photograph of Konnenkova at an exhibition on Russian-Soviet female spies that opened in St. Petersburg earlier this summer demonstrates the exquisite beauty of the country's female agents, which made them particularly difficult to resist. "Most Russian female spies were very beautiful,...

In early December of 1998, the House Judiciary Committee sent four articles of impeachment to the House of Representatives. On Dec. 17, the House as a whole would decide whether or not William Jefferson Clinton would be the first president since Andrew Johnson to be impeached. But, all of a sudden, the vote had to be delayed. On Dec. 16, the eve of what would have been his impeachment, President Clinton ordered a series of bombing attacks on Iraq, a campaign to be called Operation Desert Fox. The attack was launched without warning and without any direct U.N. authorization. Clinton...

U.S. Data Gave Iraq Key to Making Nuclear Bomb After hunting for days, the Iraqi physicist finally checked a long-locked attic room. There he spotted a box, coated with decades of dust, and opened it. Sure enough, it was full of reams of data - American data - on how to make a nuclear bomb. "In it were the Manhattan Project books and reports," Imad Khadduri recalls, referring to the U.S. program that produced America's first atomic weapons during World War II. With that and other U.S. material, Khadduri and his colleagues in 1987 painstakingly began collecting patent designs for...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8212; Edward Teller, a member of the Manhattan Project that created the first atomic bomb and who later emerged as the foremost champion of the vastly more destructive hydrogen bomb, has died. He was 95.</p> <p>Mr. Teller, dubbed the "father of the H-bomb" and a key advocate of the antimissile shield known as "Star Wars," died Tuesday at his home on the Stanford University campus.</p>

Remembrances of VENONA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- National Cryptologic Museum NSA Home Page Note: The following are the remarks made by Mr. William P. Crowell, Deputy Director of NSA when the declassification of the VENONA project was announced at CIA Headquarters on 11 July 1995. Mr. Crowell retired from NSA on 12 September 1997. In the early 1960's, shortly after joining NSA, I was one of a small but fortunate group of agency employees invited to a meeting with Frank Rowlett, one of the eminent NSA cryptologists who had been so successful during World War II. For over an hour Frank told us...

LONDON, Jan. 24 — Alan Nunn May, a British atomic scientist who spied for the Soviet Union, died on Jan. 12 in Cambridge. He was 91. The Times and the Daily Telegraph reported his death but did not give a cause. One of the first Soviet spies uncovered during the cold war, Dr. Nunn May worked on the Manhattan Project and was betrayed by a Soviet defector in Canada. His unmasking in 1946 led the United States to restrict the sharing of atomic secrets with Britain. His discovery ignited a search for other spies inside the Manhattan Project and led...