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Flash! Julius Rosenberg was a spy!
Capital Research Center ^ | September 17, 2008 | Robert Huberty

Posted on 09/17/2008 10:24:07 AM PDT by vadum

The New York Times reports that the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg now accept that their father was a spy for the Soviet Union based on the belated admission of a confederate, Morton Sobel, age 91, that he had lied for more than a half-century when he said they were innocent of a conspiracy to give government military secrets to the USSR.

The sons' desire to vindicate their parents spurred their political radicalism in the 1960s and 70s and led them to establish the Rosenberg Fund for Children, a charity for the children of leftist activists, which CRC described in this 2001 issue of Foundation Watch.


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: communist; deathpenalty; espionage; juneteenth; rosenberg; rosenbergexecution; spy; treason
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1 posted on 09/17/2008 10:24:07 AM PDT by vadum
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To: vadum

A soviet spy would lie? No friggen WAY!


2 posted on 09/17/2008 10:25:00 AM PDT by Holicheese (Get up Tom Brady, get up! PLEASE!!)
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To: vadum

In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet.


3 posted on 09/17/2008 10:25:37 AM PDT by GunRunner (Obama and Palin have one thing in common; they both make me want to vote for John McCain.)
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To: vadum

Soviet embassy cable traffic was intercepted and decoded under a program called VENONA. Spies are assigned code names, sometimes more than one to complicate matters for the enmey should their commuications be intercepted.

Julius had two code names, one of which was “LIBERAL”.

Nice to know the KGB has a sense of humor.


4 posted on 09/17/2008 10:29:30 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: vadum

The liberals will still say the Rosenbergs were victims of Joseph McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover, two men who were heroes in the war against communism.


5 posted on 09/17/2008 10:31:59 AM PDT by PeterFinn ("I will stand with the Muslims" - Baraq Hussein Obama p. 261 "Audacity of Hope")
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To: vadum
The New York Times still holds out hope for Alger Hiss (also guilty as hell).
6 posted on 09/17/2008 10:34:00 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Somewhere in Illinois, a community is missing its organizer.)
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To: Holicheese
Fascinating that they proclaimed their innocence to their children - basically telling their kids: "I'd rather die for Stalin than live for you."

What frighteningly evil people the Rosenbergs were. What pain they caused the people they were supposed to love.

7 posted on 09/17/2008 10:39:16 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: vadum

“The sons’ desire to vindicate their parents spurred their political radicalism in the 1960s and 70s and led them to establish the Rosenberg Fund for Children, a charity for the children of leftist activists, which CRC described in this 2001 issue of Foundation Watch.”

They established a fund to do what. My goodness, half the people in the country would qualify for aid. Come to think of it, two are running for the top office in the land and one is Speaker of the House. So, what did this “fund” do? Stop the rest of America that is right of center or centered from shunning them? It surely wouldn’t be established for scholarships — 99.9% of college admissions offices would be honored to educate them for free.


8 posted on 09/17/2008 10:43:46 AM PDT by Constitutions Grandchild
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To: vadum

I predict now the left will switch from

“They were innocent victims of anticommunist hysteria”

to

“Ok they did it but it was a noble thing they did. They were working for peace.”


9 posted on 09/17/2008 10:47:23 AM PDT by DManA
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To: wideawake

Didn’t it come out that Ethel was unaware of what her husband was doing?


10 posted on 09/17/2008 10:51:21 AM PDT by Borges
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To: wideawake

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/772181/posts

Read the last paragraph.


11 posted on 09/17/2008 10:58:38 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Chicken counting time starts Nov. 5.)
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To: Borges
Didn’t it come out that Ethel was unaware of what her husband was doing?

No, she recruited her own brother and was convicted of typing up her husband's reports. She could have spared herself the death penalty if she had come clean.

12 posted on 09/17/2008 11:00:36 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Chicken counting time starts Nov. 5.)
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To: vadum

I’m shocked... SHOCKED I say!!!


13 posted on 09/17/2008 11:00:41 AM PDT by WayneS (Vote Obama bin Biden 2008 - "Because the world doesn't suck enough yet".)
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To: wideawake
Fascinating that they proclaimed their innocence to their children - basically telling their kids: "I'd rather die for Stalin than live for you."

And at that very time, Stalin was starting to put together the early stages of his most terrible purge/pogram, the infamous "Doctors' Plot".

14 posted on 09/17/2008 11:06:49 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Borges
I thought that she brought David in on it.

In any case her husband and her brother were both deeply involved - there is no way she could not have known.

15 posted on 09/17/2008 11:07:41 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: vadum

I can remember that a bunch of us “yutes”, in NYC’s Chelsea District, started a countdown to their execution. The Daily News had written that the Rosenbergs would be executed at xxx p.m., so when the time neared, we all stood around chanting “10 ... 9 ... etc.” When we hit one, we all made like we were throwing the lever to fire the electric chair. We were all certain they were traitors and had little sympathy for them - only those who read the Daily Worker were their defenders.


16 posted on 09/17/2008 11:08:26 AM PDT by Oatka (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: vadum

No Way!!!??? Really???
The NY Slimes finds this oh-so-revealing. Not that they have a problem with the notion of Americans passing on national secrets to evil regimes. Douchebags.


17 posted on 09/17/2008 11:12:13 AM PDT by patrick10801
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To: vadum
The atomic spying was just the tip of the iceberg for the Rosenbergs and their spy ring and among the least damaging of their crimes. Now all but forgotten is the radar secrets they stole from Western Electric labs. Those secrets, in Soviet hands, got good men killed in Korea.
18 posted on 09/17/2008 11:16:11 AM PDT by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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To: vadum

I’m surprised that Sobel admits he lied.


19 posted on 09/17/2008 11:16:31 AM PDT by popdonnelly (I'll tell you a little secret: we're smarter and more competent than the Left.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo; wideawake

The Soviet Army had never stood down after WW2 ended. Stalin was planning to exile all Jews to Siberia and intensify a massive purge that would be the final rupture with the West and bring on another World War he thought they were sure to win.


20 posted on 09/17/2008 11:16:55 AM PDT by Borges
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