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...crime had ideological roots. Children of East European immigrants who settled in Manhattan's lower East Side, both Julius Rosenberg and his future wife Ethel Greenglass took to Communism in their adolescent years. In so doing, they rejected the Jewish faith of their parents (a sore blow to Julius' father, a garment worker who yearned for his son to be a rabbi). So ardent was 19-year-old Ethel's devotion to the cause that she began indoctrinating her 13-year-old brother David. Then she found a comrade and a beau in Julius, two years...
...most precious, and most damning, piece of information came in 1945 from Ethel's younger brother David Greenglass, then employed as a machinist in the supersecret atomic bomb laboratory at Los Alamos, N. Mex. Ethel had used older-sister cajolery, and Julius had given money ("Money is no object," Julius had said, explaining that it came from "friends") to persuade David and his confused wife Ruth to join the treasonable conspiracy. Later, Yakovlev conveyed the commendation of his masters in Moscow for Greenglass' sketches: "Extremely excellent and very valuable." At the Rosenberg trial, a U.S, atomic expert, examining...
...Russia Is Our Ally." Chief witness against the Rosenbergs was Ethel's brother, David Greenglass, once an Army machinist at Los Alamos' Manhattan Project. In 1944, said David, his wife Ruth told him that the Rosenbergs wanted him to give them whatever information he could discover about the atom bomb, because "Russia is our ally and as such, deserves this information . . ." Greenglass testified that he repeatedly turned over top-secret data to the Rosenbergs...
...David Greenglass, whose confession got his prison sentence down to 15 years, was backed up by the testimony of his wife Ruth. Convicted Spy Harry Gold told the court that, in May 1945, a Russian agent named Yakovlev had ordered him to go to Albuquerque to pick up some atom-bomb diagrams from Greenglass...
...phrase with which Gold identified himself to Greenglass: "Julius sent me." Another key witness. Max Elitcher, testified that Rosenberg had urged him to steal secret information from the Navy Ordnance Bureau...