Posted on 01/18/2009 6:21:08 AM PST by Pharmboy
Julius Rosenberg, who recruited his brother-in-law David Greenglass to steal atomic secrets, also enlisted a second spy to penetrate the Manhattan Project, snip...
The authors conclude that the spy nicknamed in decoded Soviet cables as Fogel or Persian was not the scientists Robert Oppenheimer or Philip Morrison, as some investigators have speculated, but Rosenberg’s recruit, Russell W. McNutt, a relatively obscure engineer who helped build the uranium processing plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn., that was part of the Manhattan Project.
Mr. McNutt, a graduate of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and a former assistant Manhattan borough engineer, died a year ago at 93. Though he had been identified as a Communist sympathizer, earlier American counterintelligence did not identify him as a member of the Rosenberg spy ring.
The book, “Spies: The Rise and Fall of the K.G.B. in America,” is by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev, a former Soviet espionage agent.
...“This was an atomic spy who got away with it while his protectors, the Rosenbergs, went to their death.”
In addition to asserting that Julius Rosenberg played a greater role in atomic espionage than was believed, the book suggests that his wife, Ethel, was complicit and affirms previous assessments that Alger Hiss was a spy and that Oppenheimer was not.
The book, to be published this spring by Yale University Press, is based on the detailed notes of Mr. Vassiliev, who had some access to Soviet espionage files.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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That horse left the barn a long time ago. The Rosenbergs' apologists latest resort is calling their execution a disproportionate response.
Guess they see their ‘end times” coming up fast.
NYT: The never ending story of “My Favorite Commies”
Ha! Could be a sitcom that would play well on the upper west side in NYC and in Hollywood...
Working on the "making amends" step of their 12-step program???
Gee, my Dad would have been at Brooklyn Poly at the same time.
What they gonna do, dig up the Rosenbergs and take them to the big get together in Moscow on the Potomac this week? The 20th will be the largest May Day red parade in American history.
As if they’ve even come close to Step 1, LOL!
BTW, it was Henry Luce (The founder of Time Magazine) who paid for the defense of Whittaker Chambers when Alger sued him.
Whittaker Chambers was asked by Bill Buckley to be his partner when he started the National Review magazine. Whittaker declined because he thought his reputation would harm the magazine.
I’ve read other Yale U books by Klehr and Haynes and will read this one when its issued.
There were several US spies that got away with it, including Ted Hall and the Cohens.
PBS (surprisingly) ran an excellent program a few years ago, “The Red Files.” Click the red links at the bottom of this page:
http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/kgb/index.htm
How times change, that Time is today a Bolshevik rag.
The U.S. let Ted Hall get away with it, because they didn’tt want the Soviets to know about the Venona project.
I think they’re still defending Alger Hiss >>
i was thinking the same thing. Alger Hiss, and people wonder why I’m against the United Nations.
Hiss co-Authored the original UN charter.
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