Posted on 06/26/2008 12:23:10 AM PDT by Cincinna
The trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, that touchstone of atomic espionage, is a case that launched a thousand doctorates and enough historical texts to make a library groan. Now, however, the 50-year-old record may grow even more complex: on Monday, the federal government, in an unusual move, consented to release most of the secret grand jury testimony taken in the case.
In papers filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, prosecutors said that they would not oppose the release of testimony from 35 of the 45 witnesses who appeared before the grand jury in New York in 1950 and 1951.
While the papers said that the government “does not dispute that the Rosenberg atomic spy trial is a case of significant historical importance,” the prosecutors agreed to publish only the testimony of witnesses who are dead (or themselves consented to have their testimony published), and are still opposing the release of materials from 10 witnesses who were either alive and had not consented or who could not be found.
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More proof they were guilty?
Venona proved it
Stunned to learn the Soviets were spying on us in 1945?
Venona was already in progress. We knew, but kept it from the dem president and his communist agent advisors.
Obama will issue posthumous pardons for them.
Me-thinks the commies at the Slimes are afraid some blogger will use the declassed documents and juxtapose them with their cover propaganda. Popcorn please!
Seems to me, more facts will make things less, rather than more, compicated.
There...fixed it!
Don't laugh, Dukakis pardoned Sacco and Vanzetti. Yes, Bartolomeo and Niccoli were just a guilty as Julius and Ethel.
If I remember correctly, Roosevelt was informed of the Venona project & told them to shut it down. Fortunately, the General in charge ignored him.
Roosevelt and Venona....you might be right about FDR and Venona...FDR was warned that Alger Hiss was a spy and kept promoting Hiss right on up the ladder and into DOS!
This is addressed in ‘Blackilisted by History’ by Evan Stanton, htis book is a extensive documented account of all vast the Commie infestation of Fed Guv from the 1930’s onward. After the Nazi’s turned on Stalin, the FDR administration discontinued all investigation of Fed employees and threw open the door in hiring a whole slimey mess of Soviet spies, advocates and useful tools....they are still in the FedGuv!
Soviet influence reached its highest level in the 1940s when Henry Wallace was vice President. Wallace was a Communist sympathizer and may have passed or helped pass US secrets to the Soviets. Had Wallace not been replaced as vice president by Harry Truman and had become president in 1945, Russian spies would likely have been at the very highest levels in the US government.
He also saw one of Stalin’s gulags firsthand and said nothing critical.
Yeah, read that one. But the book I read on Venona referenced the Roosevelt comment.
I read the Venona Secrets, by Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel sometime ago and I am cureently reafing Blacklisted by History by Stanton Evans who refers to a lot of the Venona info....
The Rosenbergs were small potatoes compared to the Cohens and Ted Hall.
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