Grand Jury Testimony In Cold War-Era Rosenberg Case Released (Brother's Testimony)

NPR ^ | 7/15

[nickcarraway]

Here's what we know: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1953 for selling U.S. nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union after one of the most sensational Cold War-era espionage trials. They were convicted in 1951 owing, largely, to the testimony of David Greenglass, Ethel Rosenberg's brother.

Here's what we don't know: How credible Greenglass' testimony was in court.

Greenglass himself spent nearly a decade in prison for his role in the conspiracy. The Army sergeant stole nuclear intelligence from Los Alamos, N.M., and said he passed it on to the Rosenbergs. At the trial, he said Ethel Rosenberg typed his notes that were then given to the Russians.

But decades later, Greenglass, who died in 2014, told New York Times reporter Sam Roberts he had lied to protect his wife, Ruth Greenglass, and suggested it was she who had typed up the notes. Ruth Greenglass died in 2008.

Today the National Security Archives released Greenglass' grand jury testimony, lending weight to his account to Roberts.

In the testimony from Aug. 7, 1950, Greenglass is asked whether Ethel Rosenberg asked him to stay in the Army so he could continue providing information from Los Alamos. His reply: "I said before, and say it again, honestly, this is a fact: I never spoke to my sister about this at all."

But at trial, a year later, he put Ethel at the center of the conspiracy. The documents released today show it was Ruth who played a far more pivotal role.

The testimony, which was sealed for more than six decades, was released upon the order of Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who cited its historical significance.

The Rosenbergs maintained their innocence until their execution by electric chair.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Didn’t the Venona Papers clear this up?

[WilliamofCarmichael]

The future president who faces both North Korean and Iranian nuclear weapons should seriously forget about Chamberlain vis-a-vis B.J. Clinton and B.H. Obama — that future president had better think Rosenbergs.

[Navy Patriot]

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1953 for selling U.S. nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union...

And that cheapskate commie Rosenberg STILL hasn't paid his electric bill.

[RaceBannon]

this is the opposite of what was said when Greenglass died, he confessed to him and the rosenbergs being guilty

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/14/greenglass-obituary-rosenberg/17274539/

[forgotten man]

Ethel and Julius Clinton gave missile technology to the Chicoms.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

The Commies at NPR are still trying to pretend they weren’t spies. Lying is one thing you can trust a Commie to do.

[RaceBannon]

List of Americans in the Venona papers

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Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Chairman of the bipartisan Commission on Government Secrecy, responsible for securing the release of Venona project materials, in the Introduction to his book Secrecy states, "The Venona intercepts contained overwhelming proof of the activities of Soviet spy networks in America, complete with names, dates, places, and deeds."⁽¹⁾ The release involved careful consideration of privacy interests of individuals mentioned, referenced, or identified in the translations. Some names have not been released when to do so would constitute an invasion of privacy. Over 200 named or covernamed persons found in the VENONA translations, persons then present in the U.S., are claimed by the KGB and the GRU in their messages as their clandestine assets or contacts.⁽²⁾

Contents

• 1 Notes
• 2 See also
• 3 External links
• 4 References

• John Abt, United States Department of Agriculture; Works Progress Administration; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; special assistant to the United States Attorney General, United States Department of Justice
• Solomon Adler, United States Department of the Treasury
• Lydia Altschuler
• Thomas Babin, Yugoslavia Section Office of Strategic Services
• Marion Bachrach, (*) congressional office manager of Congressman John Bernard of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
• Rudy Baker
• Vladimir Barash
• Joel Barr, United States Army Signal Corps Laboratories
• Alice Barrows, United States Office of Education
• Theodore Bayer, President, Russky Golos Publishing
• George Beiser, National Research Establishment, Research and Development Board; engineer Bell Aircraft
• Aleksandr Belenky, General Electric
• Cedric Belfrage, journalist; British Security Coordination
• Elizabeth Bentley
• Marion Davis Berdecio, Office of Naval Intelligence; Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; United States Department of State
• Josef Berger, (*) Democratic National Committee
• Joseph Bernstein, Board of Economic Warfare
• Walter Sol Bernstein, Hollywood Screenwriter, listed on the MPAA's Hollywood blacklist
• T.A. Bisson, Board of Economic Warfare
• Thomas Lessing Black, Bureau of Standards United States Department of Commerce
• Samuel Bloomfield, (*) Eastern European Division, Research and Analysis Division, Office of Strategic Services
• Robinson Bobrow
• Ralph Bowen, (*) United States Department of State
• Abraham Brothman, chemist
• Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the United States
• Rose Browder
• William Browder ^[1]
• Michael Burd, Head of Midland Export Corporation
• Paul Burns, employee of TASS
• Norman Bursler, United States Department of Justice Anti-Trust Division
• James Callahan
• Sylvia Callen
• Frank Coe, Assistant Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury; Special Assistant to the United States Ambassador in London; Assistant to the Executive Director, Board of Economic Warfare; Assistant Administrator, Foreign Economic Administration
• Lona Cohen
• Morris Cohen
• Eugene Franklin Coleman, RCA electrical engineer
• Anna Colloms, New York City schoolteacher
• Judith Coplon, Foreign Agents Registration section, United States Department of Justice
• Lauchlin Currie, Administrative Assistant to President Roosevelt; Deputy Administrator of Foreign Economic Administration; Special Representative to China
• Byron Darling, United States Rubber Company; United States Office of Scientific Research & Development
• Eugene Dennis, General Secretary CPUSA
• Samuel Dickstein, United States Congressman from New York; New York State Supreme Court Justice
• Martha Dodd, daughter of United States Ambassador to Germany William Dodd, Popular Front
• William Dodd Jr., son of William Dodd, United States Ambassador to Germany; Democratic Congressional candidate
• Laurence Duggan, head of United States Department of State Division of American Republics
• Demetrius Dvoichenko-Markov, U.S. Army
• Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markov
• Frank Dziedzik, National Oil Products Company
• Nathan Einhorn, Executive Secretary of American Newspaper Guild
• Max Elitcher, (*) Naval Ordinance Section, National Bureau of Standards
• Jacob Epstein, International Brigades
• Jack Fahy, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Board of Economic Warfare; United States Department of the Interior
• Linn Markley Farish, Liaison Officer with Tito's Yugoslav Partisan forces, Office of Strategic Services
• Edward Fitzgerald, War Production Board
• Charles Flato, Board of Economic Warfare; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor
• Isaac Folkoff
• Jane Foster, Board of Economic Warfare; Office of Strategic Services; Netherlands Study Unit
• Zalmond Franklin
• Isabel Gallardo
• Boleslaw Gebert, National Officer of Polonia Society of International Workers Order
• Harrison George, senior CPUSA leadership, editor of People's Daily World
• Rebecca Getzoff
• Harold Glasser, Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; War Production Board; Advisor on North African Affairs Committee; United States Treasury Representative to the Allied High Commission in Italy
• Bela Gold, Assistant Head of Program Surveys, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture; Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Economic Programs in Foreign Economic Administration
• Harry Gold
• Sonia Steinman Gold, Division of Monetary Research United States Department of Treasury Department; United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Interstate Migration; United States Bureau of Employment Security
• Elliot Goldberg, engineer for an oil equipment company in New York
• Jacob Golos
• George Gorchoff
• Gerald Graze, United States Department of State
• David Greenglass
• Ruth Greenglass
• Joseph Gregg, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; United States Department of State
• Theodore Hall
• Maurice Halperin, Chief of Latin American Division, Research and Analysis Section, Office of Strategic Services; United States Department of State
• Kitty Harris
• William Henwood, Standard Oil of California
• Clarence Hiskey, University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project
• Alger Hiss, Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs United States Department of State
• Donald Hiss, United States Department of State; United States Department of Labor; United States Department of the Interior
• Louis Horvitz, International Brigades
• Rosa Isaak, Executive Secretary of the American-Russian Institute
• Herman R. Jacobson, Avery Manufacturing Company
• Bella Joseph, motion picture division of Office of Strategic Services
• Emma Harriet Joseph, (*) Office of Strategic Services
• Julius Joseph, National Resources Planning Board; Federal Security Agency; Social Security Board; Office of Emergency Management; Labor War Manpower Commission; Deputy Chief, Far Eastern section (Japanese Intelligence) Office of Strategic Services
• Gertrude Kahn
• David Karr, Office of War Information; chief aide to journalist Drew Pearson
• Joseph Katz
• Helen Grace Scott Keenan, Office of the Co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Office of United States Chief Counsel for Prosecution of Axis War Criminals, Office of Strategic Services
• Mary Jane Keeney, Board of Economic Warfare; Allied Staff on Reparations; United Nations
• Philip Keeney, Office of the Coordinator of Information (later OSS)
• Alexander Koral, former engineer of the municipality of New York
• Helen Koral
• Samuel Krafsur, journalist TASS
• Charles Kramer, Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Price Administration; National Labor Relations Board; Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; United States Senate Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee; Democratic National Committee
• Christina Krotkova, Office of War Information
• Sergey Nikolaevich Kurnakov, Daily Worker
• Stephen Laird, Hollywood Producer; Time Magazine Reporter; Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) correspondent
• Rudy Lambert, California Communist party labor director and head of security
• Oskar Lange
• Trude Lash, United Nations Human Rights Committee
• Richard Lauterbach, Time Magazine
• Duncan Lee, counsel to General William Donovan, head of Office of Strategic Services
• Michael Leshing, superintendent of Twentieth Century Fox film laboratories
• Leo Levanas, Shell Oil Company
• Morris Libau
• Helen Lowry
• Willaim Mackey
• Harry Magdoff, Chief of the Control Records Section of War Production Board and Office of Emergency Management; Bureau of Research and Statistics, WTB; Tools Division, War Production Board; Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce; Statistics Division Works Progress Administration
• William Malisoff, owner of United Laboratories of New York
• Hede Massing, journalist
• Robert Menaker
• Floyd Miller
• James Walter Miller, United States Post Office, Office of Censorship
• Robert Miller, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Near Eastern Division United States Department of State
• Robert Minor, Office of Strategic Services
• Leonard Mins, Russian Section of the Research and Analysis Division of the Office of Strategic Services
• Arthur Moosen
• Vladimir Morkovin, Office of Naval Research
• Boris Moros, Hollywood Producer
• Nicola Napoli, president of Artkino, distributor of Soviet films
• Franz Leopold Neumann, consultant at Board of Economic Warfare; Deputy Chief of the Central European Section of Office of Strategic Services; First Chief of Research of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
• Melita Norwood
• Eugénie Olkhine
• Rose Olsen
• Frank Oppenheimer, (*) physicist
• Nicholas W. Orloff
• Nadia Morris Osipovich
• Edna Patterson
• William Perl, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at Langley Army Air Base; Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory
• Victor Perlo, chief of the Aviation Section of the War Production Board; Head of Branch in Research Section, Office of Price Administration Department of Commerce; Division of Monetary Research Department of Treasury; Brookings Institution
• Burton Perry
• Aleksandr N. Petroff, Curtiss-Wright Aircraft
• Emma Phillips
• Paul Pinsky
• William Pinsly, Curtiss-Wright Aircraft, Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory
• William Plourde, engineer with Bell Aircraft
• Vladimir Pozner, head Russian Division photographic section United States War Department
• Lee Pressman Department of Agriculture; Works Progress Administration; General Counsel Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
• Mary Price, stenographer for Walter Lippmann of the New York Herald
• Esther Trebach Rand, United Palestine Appeal
• Bernard Redmont, head of the Foreign News Bureau Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Moscow and Paris Bureau Chief, CBS News
• Peter Rhodes, Foreign Broadcasting Monitoring Service, Allied Military Headquarters London; Chief of the Atlantic News Service, Office of War Information
• Stephen Rich
• Kenneth Richardson, World Wide Electronics
• Ruth Rivkin, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
• Samuel Rodman, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
• Allan Rosenberg, Board of Economic Warfare; Chief of the Economic Institution Staff, Foreign Economic Administration; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Railroad Retirement Board; Councel to the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board
• Julius Rosenberg, United States Army Signal Corps Laboratories
• Ethel Rosenberg
• Amadeo Sabatini, International Brigades
• Alfred Sarant, United States Army Signal Corps laboratories
• Saville Sax, Young Communist League
• Marion Schultz, chair of the United Russian Committee for Aid to the Native Country
• Bernard Schuster
• Milton Schwartz
• John Scott, Office of Strategic Services
• Ricardo Setaro, journalist/writer Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
• Charles Bradford Sheppard, Hazeltine Electronics
• Anne Sidorovich
• Michael Sidorovich
• George Silverman, Director of the Bureau of Research and Information Services, US Railroad Retirement Board; Economic Adviser and Chief of Analysis and Plans, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Material and Services, War Department
• Greg Silvermaster, Chief Planning Technician, Procurement Division, United States Department of the Treasury; Chief Economist, War Assets Administration; Director of the Labor Division, Farm Security Administration; Board of Economic Warfare; Reconstruction Finance Corporation Department of Commerce
• Helen Silvermaster
• Morton Sobell, General Electric
• Jack Soble
• Robert Soblen
• Johannes Steele, journalist and radio commentator
• Alfred Kaufman Stern, Popular Front
• I. F. Stone, (*) journalist for The Nation
• Augustina Stridsberg
• Anna Louise Strong, journalist for The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The Nation, Guardian (NY) and Asia
• Helen Tenney, Office of Strategic Services
• Mikhail Tkach, editor of the Ukrainian Daily News
• Lud Ullman, delegate to United Nations Charter meeting and Bretton Woods conference; Division of Monetary Research, Department of Treasury; Material and Services Division, Air Corps Headquarters, Pentagon
• Irving Charles Velson, Brooklyn Navy Yard; American Labor Party candidate for New York State Senate
• Margietta Voge
• George Vuchinich, 2nt. United States Army assigned to Office of Strategic Services
• Donald Wheeler, Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis division
• Enos Wicher, Wave Propagation Research, Division of War Research, Columbia University
• Maria Wicher
• Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
• Ruth Beverly Wilson
• Ignacy Witczak
• Ilya Wolston, United States Army military intelligence
• Flora Wovschin, Office of War Information; United States Department of State
• Jones Orin York
• Daniel Zaret, United States Army Explosives Division
• Mark Zborowski

Notes

• Note (1): Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Secrecy: The American Experience, (New Haven: Yale University Press 1998), pg. 15.
• Note (2): National Security Agency, Venona Archives, Introductory History of VENONA and Guide to the Translations by Robert L. Benson, 1995.

See also

• Soviet spies in America (1921-1948)
• Joseph P. Lash

External links

• National Security Agency Archives Cryptographic Museum, Custodian of Documents for the Army Signals Intelligence Agency
• Selected Venona Messages
• Venona FBI FOIA Files
• FBI Memo "Explanation and History of Venona Project Informantion" (1 February 1956)
• MI5 Releases to the National Archives
• VENONA; Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press. Despite the title, this is less about VENONA itself than about Communist Party USA espionage and support of espionage. It is based on research in the CPUSA archives made available to the authors in Moscow. See Yale University Press Web site information on the book
• Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project
• Russian State Archive (RGASPI)

References

1. ? FBI Silvermaster file, Vol. 54, pgs. 128 - 129 pdf. Record of conversation between Elizabeth Bentley and William Browder, brother of Earl Browder.

[vetvetdoug]

And the NY Judge put away MLK, Jr., surveillance from 1963-1967 away for 50 years. What is so damaging that the FBI tapes have to be sequestered for over 50 years for MLK, Jr.? What has the honored MLK,Jr., got to hide if the tapes captured the true nature of the man?

[CondorFlight]

The Soviets might not have perfected an A-bomb before the early 1950s had it not been for help from espionage.

Ergo, the Soviets might not have permitted the Korean War to be launched, since they would have had no retaliatory weapon ready. and the US would have had a monopoly on the Bomb.

So, it is possible that all the deaths in that war (Korean, US, and others) and all the destruction, were the result of espionage by many —including the Rosenbergs.

[Fiji Hill]

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1953 for selling U.S. nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union

It is my recollection that they didn't sell them, they handed them over, like good Stalinists.

[SeeSharp]

Then again, according to Dean Acheson "the Korean War saved us".

[Truthsearcher]

Not to mention all the millions murdered by the North Korean regime over the years.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Thanks for the list!

[vladimir998]

“What is so damaging that the FBI tapes have to be sequestered for over 50 years for MLK, Jr.? What has the honored MLK,Jr., got to hide if the tapes captured the true nature of the man?”

He liked sleeping with white women and he was hanging out with and employing communists.

[TangibleDisgust]

as i recall, yes.

but old lefties can’t ever let go.

and NPR is nothing if not a home for old lefties.

[TangibleDisgust]

i don’t understand what MLK Jr. did that is so great that he deserves streets and schools named after him, monuments in washington DC, and a national holiday.

he was a private citizen basically doing the same thing that al sharpton does today. he got shot. if elevating him to the level of secular sainthood is not an example of affirmative action run amok, i honestly don’t know what is.

sure, he was a better speaker than al sharpton and not such a shameless self-promoter, but outside of his “i have a dream speech”, what did he do? and if all it takes is 1 good speech to become a national hero, then that’s a pretty low bar that millions of americans can easily hurdle.

this might not be politically correct, but as far as i can tell... the fact that he was black, that he was murdered, that black people went crazy with riots afterwards, and that liberal whites were born with a terrible case of misplaced guilt are the only reason that he’s now a secular saint.

i don’t hold him in any particular regard. i guess that makes me a racist, homophobe, nazi, sexist huh? *shrugs, doesn’t care*

[GrootheWanderer]

Venona definitely established that Julius was a spy. But it appears that Ethel’s involvement was slight.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Yes, the Venona papers identified Ethel Rosenberg as one of the prime movers in Julius’ spy operation. If I remember correctly, she was involved in photographing the documents among other things.

John Haynes/Harvey Khler wrote a massive book entitled “Venona”. Followed up by Herbert Romerstein and possibly Eric Breindel with a book of similar name and subject.

Looks like Greenglass tried a last minute Rope-A-Dope on the US.

Read the ignorant replies and smears at the end of the NPR article. Pathetic but typical of liberals and their red friends.

Name of the co-defendant was Morton Sobell, who admitted that he was a Soviet spy after getting out of prison. Google his name and you will find the articles in which he made this admission.

His wife was just as bad as he was. Don’t know if she ever was openly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), but his first wife, also named Helen, was a Party member in the DC/MD group. A real nasty red bitch. I tangled with her years ago. Her husband, Casey, was also a DC Party member.

She had ties to a suspected Soviet spies named Abe Bloom and Alfred Hensley (Takoma Park, Md).Bloom lied to authorities about being a communist while he worked at the National Bureau of Standards on the “Proximity fuse”, an integral part of the triggering mechanism of the A-bomb.

A smooth, cool character, a liar par excellence. One of the key DC leaders of the various Hanoi Lobby “united fronts” known as the various “Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam”, and then went with the Trotskyite split off faction known as NPAC, National Peace Action Coalition.

The communist web of subversion has NOT YET BEEN TOTALLY EXPOSED. I would say that they are two more spy rings that have never been exposed (I learned this from the late FBI undercover agent Herbert “I Led Three Lives” Philbrick”, one of my mentors.

There is also a strong possibility that a Soviet operation in Chicago had a direct connection to Obama and his network. Too many reds with Soviet ties show up in his past, from Frank Marshall Davis to David S. Canter (and Leroy Wolins), as well as Dr. Quentin Young and Milton Cohen, among others.

Think of communist operations in the US as one big-assed Gordian Knot that has not yet been completely unraveled. The Soviets were the best spies in history and we are still suffering from their American traitors and operations.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

MLK Jr. had a high-ranking Communist Party USA (CPUSA) operative as his personal secretary, Jack O’Dell (aka Hunter Pitts O’Dell, aka John Vesey). He was employed by SCLC and later served for nearly 40 years a Jesse Jackson’s Operation PUSH, Breadbasket and the Rainbow Coalition as head of their International Affairs/Department.

King’s top financial advisor, legal advisor and friend was Stanley Levison, a covert CPUSA member and KGB money-handler for the Party. He was forced out of the red closet during Executive Session hearings by Congress in the 1970’s but he never was prosecuted for treason.

King was also connected to the CPUSA-dominated Highlander School in Tennesse. Believe it was run by CPUSA member Aubrey Williams, among others.

Other King associates in SCLC, over the years, had very significant ties to the CPUSA, Cuba and Hanoi, including Rev. James Bevel (in jail for molesting his daughter); Ralph David Abernathy, a VP of the Soviet/KGB “World Peace Council” - he later left the communists and worked against them; Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker; Carl Farris (sp); and others.

There were other internal security issues on the wiretaps that have not been made public, and probably won’t for decades.

King was a complex figure, some parts very good, other parts, not so good. The whole truth will probably never be known.

A leftist book on the King (actually two books), by David Garrow, a leftist professor, roughly entitled “The FBI and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr”.

King was caught, early on in his career, in a classical Soviet/Communist Party “sandwich” (advisors on both sides of him and his campaigns), and he never stood a chance once they got their hooks in him.

Also happened to Albert Einstein whose secretaries were a female MKVD agent and a German Communist Party member Otto Nathan.

No one knows just how many communist “sandwiches” Barack Obama was caught in but the evidence is growing that he didn’t care. It was all for power. The question is who is guiding and pulling his strings.