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1.1438 I am the only person in the world who can meet him without being searched

Through the live TV signal, the Garbo storm instantly swept across Berlin.

What was most shocking was the 10 star creators of the "SA3 Sisters Group" lined up on the rostrum to welcome them.

"Laini, congratulations."

"I'm really inspired if you can come." Female director Leni Rivenstale smiled sincerely.

Just like the "singer guest" at the concert, as a "mysterious guest", Greta Garbo, known as "the Mona Lisa of the 20th Century", climaxed the atmosphere of the entire press conference as soon as he appeared. Of course, compared to the "SA3 Sisters Group" who was immersed in their original plot time and space, who had done his homework when he came, the chief casting assistant field girl Danielle thought of a World War II secret related to Greta Garbo.

"Although it's almost 100 years, when it comes to big star Greta Garbo, he is still familiar with friends who love movies. She has made the movies in the silent film era famous for her. Later, when she was making audio movies, she had already practiced American English, so she was also very successful.

Although she often plays hot and enthusiastic sluts on the screen, Jiabao in life has always been a mystery that keeps people from thousands of miles away. This Swedish girl not only has the tall and fair appearance of a typical Nordic beauty, but also has a cold personality.

As a popular goddess, she has never married all her life. She rarely appears in the media in the entertainment industry, and she doesn't even give her face to big people and peers. The President's wife made an appointment with her several times, but she refused. Ingrid Bergman, a great star of the same era, wanted to talk to her, but after waiting for a few hours, she did not show up.

She was nominated for the Oscar three times, but never won. Later, the Oscar gave her a higher honor: the Lifetime Achievement Award. As a result, Jiabao did not come on the day of the award ceremony.

Later, World War II broke out, and Hollywood stars formed a literary and artistic propaganda team raised by the 'war bonds', and sometimes they would go to the army to perform condolences. However, Jiabao refused to participate. This gave people a bad impression. As we all know, Jiabao is very profitable, and she always asks for a higher salary, otherwise she would stop performing. Many people talk about her childhood: children from poor families are afraid of being poor.

Now even the anti-fascist performances are unwilling to participate, and the media even wrote an article to suspect: Garbo will not join the Nazis, right? But the truth is that Garbo's anti-Nazi path is much further than other stars. If the media knew what she did for Sweden in World War II at that time, they would never question: Where is her sympathy?

Speaking of which, Nazi leader Hitler is also a fan of Garbo. He has watched "The Girl of Camellia" 6 times.

Hitler tried his best to ask someone to make an appointment with Garbo many times, but Garbo didn't see him. Of course, she wouldn't see him. She hated him too late! Garbo's friend Sam Green said: If the war had not yet broken out, she might go to Germany, and she would hide a gun in her bag and kill him. Because she was the only person who didn't have to be searched ('I'll advise him to quit, or I'll kill him. I'm the only person in the world who can be searched for him without being searched').

Garbo played two spies in her acting career. In the 1928 movie "The Mysterious Lady", Garbo played the Russian spy Tanya Fedorovna accused of stealing Austrian secrets. Three years later, she played a tragic title role in "Mata Hari".

However, in the spy circle during World War II, when it comes to "spy Garcia", they usually refer not to movie star Garcia, but to a man with a bad beard. His name is Joan Pujol Garcia. A famous double-faced spy during World War II, code-named "Garcia". As an Spanish, he has been mediating between the German and British troops all year round, becoming a legend of a generation. Everyone thinks that his name is true because he is really the best actor in the real world. He stepped on the tip of a knife, talked to people, and talked to ghosts, but even Hitler, who was so suspicious, did not see that he was acting.

Garbo's code name protected Joan Phuket Garcia and also protected movie star Garbo, because in fact, Garbo during World War II also participated in anti-fascist espionage activities. One man and one woman were stupid and could not tell who protected whom.

Why did the Allies fall in love with Garbo? This starts with her motherland, Sweden. During World War II, Sweden was a neutral country, neutral, and a breeding ground for spies, and the big star Garbo's appeal in Sweden is unquestionable.

The incident began in December 1939, when she wrote a $5,000 check for children who were orphaned during the Winter War with Russia to the Finnish Relief Fund. It is said that this is typical of Garbo's style of doing things, because the donations were anonymous. Some people say that Garbo had already started to contact intelligence personnel at that time.

The middleman is film director Alexander Korda. He recruited many celebrities to work for the anti-fascist war. With his help, Garbo contacted the British SIA and started her career at MI6. Garbo, who is known for being a big shot and asking for a high pay, was said to have accepted the task without any requirements.

In late 1939, Garbo had already contacted Canadian self-made millionaire, the spy guru William Stephenson, who helped establish a special coordination office between British intelligence agencies and his American counterparts.

Stephenson was another legendary figure in World War II. He was an air force pilot during World War I. He made a fortune after the war. By World War II, he became a spy but did not receive his salary. He built a team of hundreds of people out of his own pocket.

Stephenson has a preference that is very famous in the industry, that is, he uses the stars in the entertainment industry to hide his eyes and hears. He knows the weight of Garbo in the Swedes, so he quickly listed her as a very important plan for the cause of the United Kingdom and the Allied.

In January 1940, on a snow-covered winter day, Garbo and Stephenson returned to Sweden in a steamboat. Outsiders think this is a very common way to go home to visit relatives. Stephenson also has his own shield: he owns an airplane factory and a film studio in Sweden.

In fact, both were secret agents in Stockholm under the order of the British government. Germany lacked domestic iron ore sources, and the war restricted its ability to buy iron ore elsewhere. The only option not to be interfered with by the Royal Navy was Sweden, so Nazi fighters relied heavily on exports from Scandinavian countries. Winston Churchill, who was the first Lord of the Admiral at this time, believed that if the line of iron ore flowing to Germany was cut off, the German army would suffer a heavy blow. Who could become the intermediary of this diplomatic intermediary?

As a national idol, she and Swedish senior managers could speak, including King Gustav V, who introduced them to Stephenson. At the same time, she proved helpful in passing secret messages, and through her circle of friends and acquaintances, she was able to gather intelligence on the intentions of the Swedish government and the identity of German agents in Stockholm. There is no doubt that Garbo's position in Sweden is of great value to Britain's secret diplomatic efforts to stop or slow the flow of iron ore to Nazi Germany. But Garbo's greater contribution is that she disturbed Hitler's plan to use the atomic bomb. This achievement can be said to have saved all mankind.

At that time, atomic research was still in its infancy, but scientists had mastered the devastating possibility of the atomic bomb, and Britain and Germany had new atomic bomb plans. One of the world's leading physicists and the pioneer of nuclear research was the Danish Niels Bohr (full name: Niels Henrik David Bohr, Danish: Niels Henrik David Bohr).

Bohr won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 for his fundamental contribution to understanding atomic structures and quantum physics. He is the leader of the famous Copenhagen school in quantum mechanics and the father of the atomic structure theory. His component in the circle is as famous as Einstein.

In 1939, Hitler ordered the development of an atomic bomb and used threats and intimidation to recruit experts in this area. Bohr is of course on their list.

At that time, Bohr was doing experiments at the Copenhagen Institute of Theoretical Physics to study what the British intelligence agencies believed to be related to atomic energy. The British were very worried, fearing that he would fall into the hands of the Germans, so Stephenson's mission was to escort Bohr out, and if necessary, escort Bohr out by force and detained by Britain.

The Nordic anti-fascist intelligence organization asked Garbo to act according to the situation. Soon, at a meeting between actors and audiences, Garbo invited Bohr and suggested that he: "Take human peace and justice as his mission, and do not reveal any secrets of the atomic bomb to the Nazis." Garbo told Bohr that he had arranged a plan for escape. But at that time, Bohr did not want to leave his motherland, so he refused Garbo.

On April 9, 1940, the German troops suddenly invaded Denmark, and as a prelude to the attack and occupation of Norway, the plan went on for a long time. The Danes were in a desperate situation. Their small country and equally small army could not resist the full force of the armored soldiers led by Hitler. In just a few hours, the country was occupied, and Stephenson's plan to escort Bohr to Britain was actually dead.

It was not until 1943 that Stephenson and Garbo regained their chances. At that time, British intelligence agencies learned that Sydney Bohr would be arrested by German police and were forced to engage in the German atomic bomb project under his former assistant Warner Heisenberg.

Under the escort of British agents, Bohr fled from Denmark in a RAF mosquito fighter, first into Sweden, and then to the UK. Later, the scientist went to the United States and worked on the Manhattan project. Although details of what Garbo was involved in were not clear, she was believed to have played an important role in helping Bohr leave Denmark.

Even if Bohr safely broke free from Germany's shackles, Garbo's value to the British did not decrease. She continued to provide intelligence on the intentions of the Swedish government and the identity of Nazi agents in Sweden. She still served in this capacity until the end of World War II in 1945.

After the war, Garbo quietly retreated into an isolated island world far from the glittering lights and espionage in Hollywood. She never talked about her wartime activities, and when she died in 1990, she carried these secrets with her. Even when fragmentary evidence of her brief career as a secret agent began to surface, she remained cautious and elusive, even her family. She went out for a walk every morning at 10 a.m. and returned home in the evening.

This anti-fascist heroic history of Garbo was not publicly acknowledged and made public to the world for various reasons until she was in her seventies. In the United States, the film "The Fearless" based on Garbo as the prototype artistically described this historical fact. In 1979, the British published the book "Extraordinary Garbo", which disclosed her family background and rumors of American spies for the first time, which caused a huge sensation. But Garbo was unmoved and still lived in seclusion. Although the whole world still did not know the complete situation of Greta Garbo's participation in espionage, there was no doubt that she played a valuable role in the Allied victory over Hitler Germany, a role that was the same dramatic as any role she played on the screen.
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