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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who spied for the Soviet Union and were tried, convicted and executed by the United States government. They were accused of transmitting nuclear weapon designs to the Soviet Union; at that time the United States was the only country with nuclear weapons. They were also accused of providing top-secret information about radar, sonar, and jet propulsion engines to the USSR.Other convicted co-conspirators were imprisoned, including Ethel's brother, David Greenglass, who supplied documents from Los Alamos to Julius and who served 10 years of his 15-year sentence; Harry Gold, who identified Greenglass and served 15 years in Federal prison as the courier for Greenglass. Klaus Fuchs, a German scientist working in Los Alamos and handled by Gold, provided vastly more important information. He was convicted in Great Britain and served nine years and four months in prison.
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Just so people know what happens ... to peeps like Bannon and the Mercers ... and the rest of these corrupt traitors.
chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)That is where the Koch brothers cam from
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Devoutly.
poboy2
(2,078 posts)JI7
(89,252 posts)And wasn't Ethel innocent ?
But the testimony--from another Jewish person involved--said she was heavily involved.
The witness was otherwise reliable, and her innocence leaves open the question of who did the work that he said she did.
Mostly it's a Rosenberg family thing, defending the family name. At the time it was a progressive/communist versus anti-communists, both defending the group of supporters in the US as well as defenders of the USSR. (This was a party that defended Stalin as a good person until the report from the 20th Party Congress became known. Then, with the KP SSSR denunciation of Stalin, most of the CP USA sudden found that it had never *really* supported Stalin--any defense of him was not politically correct and saying bad things about him was.)
kskiska
(27,045 posts)that he lied about his sister's involvement (typing reports) to save his wife, who actually delivered materials to Russian agents. There's a great book, "The Brother." The Feds thought that by applying pressure on Ethel and threatening her with death would make her confess. She didn't.