Word: greenglasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buxom, pretty matron spoke up very clearly in the quiet Manhattan federal courtroom. Calmly, Mrs. David Greenglass, mother of two small children, told court and jury some of the incidents of her domestic life. She told how, in 1945, when she was living in Albuquerque, she and her husband had a visit from a man named Harry Gold. The incident was to set the Greenglasses apart forever from their fellow citizens in the U.S. They delivered to Gold some atomic information stolen from the secret atomic project at Los Alamos, where Sergeant David Green-glass was stationed...
...dispassionate voice of Ruth Green-glass droned on. Gold paid them $500. She sensibly put $400 in the bank, she said, "bought a $50 defense bond for $37.50 and used the rest of the money for household expenses." Thus prosaic Mrs. Greenglass added her testimony to the story of a far-flung Russian espionage ring whose purpose was to steal U.S. atomic secrets (TIME, March 19). She admitted that she had recruited her husband into the conspiracy which included British Physicist Klaus Fuchs, Philadelphia Chemist Harry Gold, and Spymaster Anatoli Yakovlev, Russian vice consul in New York...
Rosenberg asked him to write up anything he knew about the atomic project. Greenglass obliged and even added a sketch of a "lens mold" he was working on for use in the atom bomb itself. He drew a copy for the jury, and a Los Alamos scientist explained that these four-leaf-clover-shaped lenses were made of high explosives designed to focus detonation waves as an optical lens focuses light waves. This made an "implosion" rather than an explosion. The sketch, he said, was sufficient to show an expert "what was going on" at Los Alamos...
With Scissors. At the Rosenbergs, the conspirators arranged for future deliveries. Rosenberg tore the back off a package of Jello, took a pair of scissors and snipped the cardboard in half. One-half he gave to Greenglass' wife, the other he kept. The next time Greenglass saw the other half, was in Albuquerque. It was in the hand of Courier Harry Gold-an identification card. Greenglass gave Gold another lens-mold sketch, he said...
...Then Greenglass dropped the biggest bombshell yet. In September 1945, he saw Rosenberg again, who handed him $200 and told him it "came from the Russians." Rosenberg already knew about the Hiroshima-type bomb, had once described it to him. Greenglass told him something new, He gave Rosenberg a description of a later-type bomb-"a type which worked on an implosion effect." He also handed over a twelve-page report, including a sketch of the bomb itself, Greenglass testified stolidly. Before the fascinated jury, he flourished a sample sketch that he had brought along with him and casually began...