I saw a 60 Minutes piece on them last night. They were as guilty as sin and it is not in dispute. I never really looked into that case much but read up on it last night quite a bit. Any nonsense that they were innocent is just that. Nonsense.
I'm a bit of a "buff" of Manhattan Project history.Quote:
After its construction, the house went through a variety of owners until it was purchased in 1944 by WB Freeman and his wife Margaret. At the time they bought the house, the three upstairs rooms were being used as boarding rooms. The Freemans continued to use it this way and lived in the downstairs part of the house with Margaret's father, Pete Scherer. The Freemans became one of the most well-known and longest owners of the house.
Shortly after purchasing the house, the Freemans were approached by Ruth Greenglass, wife of David Greenglass, who wanted to rent one of the upstairs rooms for $32 a month. David Greenglass just happened to be the brother of Ethel Rosenberg and brother-in-law of Julius Rosenberg, convicted Soviet spies who were executed in the 1950s. David was in New Mexico to work on the atomic bomb in Los Alamos during the week and would join his wife in their one-room apartment on the weekends.
On June 2, 1945, David was greeted by Harry Gold, a Soviet spy courier, to receive drawings of the portion of the atomic bomb on which he was working. David exchanged these drawings with Gold for $500 in their room in the house. It was due to this incident that the house became known as "The Spy House". You can find mention of the house in several books, as well as in numerous newspaper articles written throughout the years.
If I am not mistaken, I believe that Kruschev mentioned the Rosenbergs in his memoir and admitted they were soviet spies.ce1994 said:
I am no expert on this matter at all. Until last night I thought it was still disputed that Julius Rosenberg was a spy. There is no doubt he was a spy. His kids acknowledge he was a spy.
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/25/world/khrushchev-on-rosenbergs-stoking-old-embers.htmlQuote:
From Stalin and from the longtime Soviet Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav M. Molotov, the memoir says, Khrushchev learned that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg had ''provided very significant help in accelerating the production of our atomic bomb.''
''Let this be a worthy tribute to the memory of those people,'' the memoir says of the Rosenbergs. ''Let my words serve as an expression of gratitude to those who sacrificed their lives to a great cause of the Soviet state at a time when the U.S. was using its advantage over our state to blackmail our state and undermine its proletarian cause.''
Interesting post. Supposedly Pollard was spying for Israel. Whatever he did, the intelligence community was intent on keeping him in prison for life. The Israelis pressured every administration for the past 20 years to release Pollard and every time the politicians would ask the CIA for their opinion and the answer was always HELL NO. I think there is more to the Pollard story than meets the eye or has ever been made public. I don't know what it is but it must be pretty serious. Even now when they finally released him from prison he is not allowed to go to Israel, at least not yet. I would love to know what he did. It must have been pretty damaging to US security.terata said:
Also, since the Rosenbergs were executed for espionage, should Pollard have been?
No.terata said:
Also, since the Rosenbergs were executed for espionage, should Pollard have been?
.ce1994 said:
I did learn one thing, however. The information Rosenberg passed on was of little value to the Soviets. The feds knew there was someone else out there giving the Soviets better more technical information. That is what they were after. They wanted that guy. The Rosenbergs either did not know who that was or died with the information.