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...relative had. Big, beefy David Greenglass, an ex-Army sergeant, was Mrs. Rosenberg's brother. He had been indicted along with the others, and had pleaded guilty. As a machinist, he said, he was assigned by the Army to Los Alamos' Manhattan Project in 1944, where he worked in the machine shop turning out apparatus from sketches drawn up by the scientists. In a voice that often dropped away to a whisper, Greenglass testified that he had no idea what he was working on until his wife came to visit him on their wedding anniversary in November...
Names & Sketches. His wife had visited the Rosenbergs, Witness Greenglass went on, and sister Ethel had pointed out that the Rosenbergs were "no longer involved in Communist Party activities, that they didn't buy the Daily Worker any more, or attend meetings . . . And the reason for this is that Julius has finally gotten to the point where he is doing what he wanted to do all along, which was that he was giving information to the Soviet Union...
Julius thought Greenglass should give some, too, he told Greenglass' wife, arguing that "Russia was an ally and as such deserved this information, and that she was not getting the information that was coming to her." Said Greenglass: "I thought about it, and the following morning I told my wife I would give the information." Sergeant Greenglass told his wife the layout of the Los Alamos buildings, the number of workers, and the big names he knew-Dr. Robert Oppenheimer and a scientist known only as "Baker" who, Greenglass had learned, was really Dr. Niels Bohr. His wife...
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...