Word: greenglasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...David Greenglass...
Judge Kaufman, one of the youngest (40) federal judges, had had only ten hours' sleep in a week, had spent long hours in prayer at his synagogue. Tearful Mrs. Tessie Greenglass, mother of convicted spies Ethel Rosenberg and David Greenglass, had visited him to plead for her children. "I have deliberated for hours, days and nights," said Judge Kaufman. "I have searched my conscience to find some reason for mercy. I am convinced, however, that I would violate the solemn and sacred trust that the people of this land have placed in my hands were I to show leniency...
After a brief recess, Judge Kaufman went back to the bench to sentence sullen Morton Sobell, because of his "lesser degree of implication," to 30 years. Next day, Judge Kaufman sentenced David Greenglass, the ex-Army sergeant who had fed atomic secrets to the Rosenbergs and whose testimony had convicted his sister and brother-in-law, to a milder 15 years because of his help to the Government...
...Fuchs, an anti-Hitler refugee who was high in Anglo-American atom councils. Four years passed before Klaus Fuchs was arrested in England (and sentenced to 14 years). His confession led to the arrest of Courier Harry Gold in Philadelphia. The trail from Harry Gold led to the Rosenbergs, Greenglass and Soviet Spy Master Anatoli Yakovlev, who was ostensibly a Soviet vice consul in New York...
...David Greenglass, the only American among the top spies, was far less important to the Russians. He furnished Russia with mechanical details of the bomb, most importantly the high-explosive lenses used in the Nagasaki-type bomb, and a diagram of the bomb itself. But, the committee noted, he had nothing like Fuchs's fund of scientific principles and information...