In 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed as a result of a guilty verdict on the charges of conspiracy to commit espionage

The Facts

Espionage

The atomic espionage of the Rosenbergs was ineffective. However, they passed it on to a large amount of Soviet secret documents as important, according to historian Ronald Radosh, initially committed to the cause of the Rosenbergs, information about the design of the first MiG aircraft, the latest information on radar and sonar, or the proximity fuse which helped bring down the U-2 of Gary Power.

Arrest

On 15 June 1950, the FBI arrested David Greenglass , a former mechanic of nuclear plants at Los Alamos ( New Mexico , USA). Greenglass finally acknowledged that he received money from a spy, Harry Gold, in exchange for information on proposed plant at Los Alamos. He is charged with spying for the USSR on 6 July 1950.

On 16 June 1950, Julius Rosenberg, brother David Greenglass who accuses him of being the mastermind of the spy case, was arrested. He was released the same evening; the FBI has no evidence or charges against him. For a month, the FBI keeps a watch on Julius Rosenberg, who does not seek to flee. As long as David Greenglass would refuse to resume and to detail the accusations he had made the night of June 15, they would insufficient grounds to stop Rosenberg. According to Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton, David Greenglass was under threat (eg extradition to New Mexico) in exchange for confessions on Rosenberg: The reports that the press gave the arrests of Greenglass and the hearing on his extradition to New Mexico instead emphasized the rebellious attitude of David Greenglass and the apparent clash between his lawyer O. John Rodge and the Attorney Irving H. Saypol. It was not until the ...