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...Russians had stolen the secret was encouraged by a series of shocking facts: the 1950 arrest of English Physicist Klaus Fuchs, who confessed to supplying Russia with atomic information; the admission by Philadelphia Chemist Harry Gold that he had been Fuchs' American courier; the arrest of David Greenglass, an Army machinist at Los Alamos during World War II. Greenglass was Ethel Rosenberg's brother. He told the FBI that he had been Gold's accomplice. He added that his brother-in-law Julius Rosenberg had recruited him to steal secrets from Los Alamos...
...crushing case against the couple, as well as against Co-Defendant Morton Sobell, whose own account of the trial and his nearly 18 years in prison was published in On Doing Time (1974). The Rosenbergs repeatedly took the Fifth Amendment when asked if they belonged to the Communist Party. Greenglass, the Government's star witness, testified that his brother-in-law and sister were part of a Soviet spy network here. The Rosenbergs denied any such guilt, arguing that Greenglass and Gold had perjured themselves to escape a possible death penalty...
...case, some raising unsettling questions about the conduct of the trial and evidence used at it. Walter and Miriam Schneir's Invitation to an Inquest, for example, alleges after lengthy examination that one of the two Albuquerque hotel registration cards used by the prosecution to link Gold to Greenglass is a forgery...
...additional question, raised by Walter and Miriam Schneir in their book Invitation to an Inquest, is whether Gold was even in New Mexico at the time he was supposed to have contacted Greenglass. The Schneirs have demonstrated that there is good reason to believe that the hotel registration card which the FBI used as documentation was a forgery...
Whether there was any such incriminating evidence, whether Gold was telling the truth or simply imagining himself a spy, are questions which can not be answered. Neither Greenglass or Judge Kaufman are willing to discuss the case, as might be expected. But there are massive FBI files which should provide some information. The FBI was ordered by Attorney General Elliot Richardson '41 to release these files to scholars studying the case, but as of now they have refused to do so, claiming that the availability of the documents would be injurious to some people directly involved who are still alive...