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...actual people. The author is conspicuously selective about players who are not wholly owned subsidiaries of his imagination. For example, there is a part for Harry Gold, a confessed spy and Government witness in the case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But missing from the book is David Greenglass, Ethel's brother and an Army machinist on the Manhattan Project who later testified that he had provided Gold and the Rosenbergs with atomic secrets...
...Rosenbergs were not martyrs. They cherished life and wanted to live and see their sons grow up, but not at the price of surrendering their dignity and lying, as did the Government's star witness, David Greenglass. Had the Rosenbergs been guilty as charged, they would be alive today! It wasn't the Rosenbergs who committed "the crime of the century" but J. Edgar Hoover, who was desperately searching for radicals in the early 1950s and was falsely accusing left-wing dissidents of espionage...
...commit espionage is weaker, although she was almost certainly an accessory. The nature of the evidence against Rosenberg Friend and Co-Defendant Morton Sobell suggests that he might have fared better in court had he not suddenly rushed off to Mexico. The Rosenbergs clearly recruited Brother-in-Law David Greenglass. As one of the Government's star witnesses, Greenglass testified that while serving as an Army technician at Los Alamos, N. Mex., he had given Julius rough sketches of the implosion device used to trigger the atomic bomb...
...files that have been released already have apparently revealed interesting, if not overwhelming new facts. The Rosenberg files included a summary of an FBI interview with David Greenglass, Ethel Rosenberg's brother, whose testimony against the Rosenbergs was instrumental to the government's case. The summary shows that Greenglass originally did not want to testify against his sister and brother-in-law but was convinced to do so by the FBI. When Greenglass testified against them he said he supplied the Rosenbergs with information on the atomic bomb, which he claimed to have obtained while working as a technician...
...harrowing nature of some incidents fights through. Michael remembers how, in the fall of 1953, he and his brother were turned away as nonresidents by the Toms River, N.J., school superintendent, even though they had been living there with family friends for a year. Elsewhere he recalls Grandmother Greenglass angrily yelling at her daughter, "If you don't talk, you're gonna burn with your husband...