The USSR was an ally in the vein of being allied with a natural enemy as the lesser of 2 evils to defeat the Nazis. No one can seriously equate them with our British allies. The spies that were supplying info to the USSR were doing it not for altruistic reasons to advance democracy but for purposes of aiding a communist philosophy they believed in and wanted exported to the US.They continued to do so after the war, Can you argue that supplying the USSR with the Atom bomb technology after the war was over was for purposes of “aiding an ally”?
The USSR was not an official enemy. They still had the status of a ally.
From June 1941 to September 1945 the US supplied the USSR billions in military aid and armaments. The US offered to include the USSR in the post-war support of the Marshall Program in 1947. The Soviets rejected any of that aid.
The Rosenbergs did spy, they did pass nuclear secrets to the Soviets. Their spying occurred during WWII, starting in 1943.
The term “Cold War” was first known to have been used in July 1947. Stalin ordered the blockade of West Berlin on 24 June 1948. The Rosenberg’s last microfilm was passed to an agent on 30 June 1948.
The Soviets say that the information the Rosenbergs passed them was not helpful in their development of a nuclear bomb.
The Rosenbergs were arrested in 1950, tried in 1951, and executed 58 years ago yesterday, 19 June 1953. Pope Pius XII was among many who appealed for them not to be executed.