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by boomboomsubban 1157 days ago
It's rather famous. Written by Leo Szilard but signed by Einstein who later seemed to regret it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Szilard_lette...

I don't understand why it would be in the Spy Museum.

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Cold War relevance, maybe?
As far as I remember, this letter started the race to nuclear weapons between the US and Nazi Germany. Lots of spycraft involved in that race.