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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...
...Incredible Details. Ruth Greenglass' testimony fitted neatly into the damning story previously told by her husband, who had already pleaded guilty. Ex-Sergeant David Greenglass had begun his tale with a flabbergasting account of how the Russians, through him and other spies, gained detailed knowledge of the atomic bomb at least seven months before the first explosion at Alamogordo (see SCIENCE). He had concluded with further incredible details of the ring's efficiency and cloak & dagger methods...
...Greenglass testified that Defendant Julius Rosenberg did not confine his interest to the atomic bomb. Julius, he said, personally stole the secret proximity fuse when he was working for the Emerson Radio Corp. "He took it out in the briefcase he brought his lunch in and gave it to the Russians," Greenglass explained...
...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...