No doubt.

so , smart, persecuted, political, radical thinker =

no doubt

Not sure, he was a friend of my great grandmother and endorsed her husband's book "anatomy of peace" which is basically a call for globalism and a centralized global empire. He was afraid of the people having nuclear power and would have prob been against decentralizing it just like Oppenheimer was originally. But perhaps he would have come to change his mind.

Here's a provoking thought:

Einstein is wrong about his law of relativity, because the aether exists.

I think that this will be proven in our lifetime.

Isaac Newton described it well in his book 'Opticks'.