Word: rosenberger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Didn't she realize that she had committed a crime against the U.S.? "I think it's wrong," she admitted. "I've always known it was wrong." She had been talked into the whole sordid affair, she explained, by her husband's sister, Mrs. Rosenberg. Seated before her in court were short, plump Mrs. Rosenberg, her pale, spectacled husband, Julius Rosenberg, and worried-looking Morton Sobell-all three accused of wartime espionage, punishable by the maximum penalty of death...
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 he went on to tell how Rosenberg had planned an escape for the Greenglass family in February 1950, when the arrest of the British spy, Dr. Klaus Fuchs, had tipped the conspirators off to the fact that the FBI and Scotland Yard were hot on their trails. "Julius came to my house and woke me up," Greenglass testified. "Julius said Harry Gold was one of Fuchs's contacts, and that Gold would undoubtedly be arrested soon and that would lead to Julius. He said I would have to leave the country...
...Here." Greenglass got $5,000 from Rosenberg for their flight, he said, and he memorized a form letter which he was supposed to write to secretaries of Soviet ambassadors at various points on an escape route. It was a fantastic enterprise...
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...