Elisabeth Zarubina ^People

In 1941, Zarubina and her husband Vasily Zarubin were sent to the USA, where Vasily Zarubin was to serve as the first secretary to the Embassy of the Soviet Union, while Zarubina was responsible for collecting information about the development of nuclear weapons in the USA, as well as to recruit engineers working close to the Manhattan Project as their agents.In August 1942, Paul Massing notified NKVD that his friend, Franz Neumann, had recently joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Massing reported to Moscow that Neumann had told him that he had produced a study of the Soviet economy for the OSS's Russian Department. In April 1943, Elizabeth Zarubina met with Neumann: (Zarubina) met for the first time with (Neumann) who promised to pass us all the data coming through his hands. According to (Neumann), he is getting many copies of reports from American ambassadors... and has access to materials referring to Germany. According to Jerrold I.Schecter and Leona Schecter, Zarubina was one of the most successful operators in stealing atomic bomb secrets from the United States. Together with Gregory Kheifetz, she supposedly set up a social ring of young communist physicists around Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos to transmit nuclear weapon plans to Moscow, and befriended him in order to achieve her goal, according to the memories written by Gen. Pavel Sudoplatov.