Posted on 04/25/2005 3:34:21 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper
TAMPA, Fla. - Robert R. Granville, an FBI agent in New York who headed the team that arrested Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in a sensational Cold War espionage case, has died at a hospital. He was 89.
Granville, who lived in Crystal River, died April 12 after suffering a stroke two weeks earlier, said his son, Army Col. Robert R. Granville Jr., M.D.
Granville began working for the FBI in 1940 and was promoted to field supervisor of Soviet espionage in the New York office six years later. On July 17, 1950, he and fellow agents arrested Julius Rosenberg in his apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Rosenberg was charged with giving atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Three weeks later, Granville and other agents arrested Rosenberg's wife, Ethel, as she left a federal courthouse where she had testified before a grand jury.
The couple was accused of getting the information from Ethel Rosenberg's brother, David Greenglass, a former machinist at the atomic weapons center in Los Alamos, N.M.
In March 1951, the Rosenbergs were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage, and were sentenced to death. After legal appeals and protests by those who questioned their guilt, they were executed in June 1953. It was the first execution of civilians for spying in U.S. history.
Granville was also involved in the Cold War case of Justice Department analyst Judith Coplon. She was accused in 1949 of passing government secrets to the Soviets through her lover, Valentin A. Gubitchev, an official at the United Nations.
Although Coplon was found guilty in two trials, her conviction was eventually overturned because Granville had arrested her without a warrant and because the FBI had used illegal wiretaps during surveillance.
Granville, a native of Idaho, left the FBI in 1952 when he was chosen by President Truman to head a committee on equal employment opportunities.
Granville is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter, two grandsons and three great-grandchildren.
I believe, btw, that Julius Rosenberg's codename was "liberal."
And they have been more then vindicated.
Possibly the greatest moment in post war American history.
The executions of those scumbags.
Now the traitors like them are called Democrats, and they're actually allowed to sabotage this country in full daylight.
Go figure.
Searched under every possible keyword, and title, nothing came up.
So what became of Doovey ?
Jane Fonda did as much. Her crimes were equally as serious.
Julius played a game of chicken with the government and lost. If he confessed he would've officially had a life sentence, but it would've only lasted fifteen years.
As a Jew I always find myself having to scold fellow Jews about the Rosenbergs and Jonathan Pollard.
Pollard was no Rosenberg(s).
His sentence was way over line and done in violation of the plea agreement they all made.
I'll get bashed for this, I know -- but I'll live with that.
Big Sky Freeper has been banned or suspended?
Not trying to compare them. Just saying he did his crime and his wife shouldn't whine about him doing his time. Also, Jews went nuts trying to save the Rosenbergs at the time, including Bill Safire, and they were among the most vile traitors in American history. But people are STILL trying to proclaim their innocence, despite Soviet-era records which show that Stalin himself credited the Rosenbergs fo the USSR getting nukes so early.
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Looks like a joke from BSF himself.
Article III, Section. 3. Clause 1:While what the Rosenbergs did was criminal, it was not treason, and not crime subject to a capital death penalty in any other case. (Except, imo, that the Rosenbergs were Jew and communist.)Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Not during Kruschev, Bay Of Pigs, Stalin, Communism and the Cold War.
I've always interpreted "aid" as giving something useful, i.e. money or information, state secrets would qualify.
By what law or congressional declaration were they changed from our ally to our enenmy?
It was aid, but afaik the Soviet Union -- truly an evil empire, too -- was officially an ally because we had been allies during the war. And some part of the Rosenberg's spy activities occurred (iirc) during WW II.
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