Posted on 06/21/2021 5:23:26 AM PDT by gr8eman
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs…… ” So goes the opening sentence of Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel The Bell Jar, referring to the Jewish American couple, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and sent to the electric chair exactly 68 years ago today. Their execution casts a morbid shadow over Plath’s book, just as it did over the United States, and it is seen by many as the nadir of America’s engagement with the cold war. The Rosenbergs are still the only Americans ever put to death in peacetime for espionage, and Ethel is the only American woman killed by the US government for a crime other than murder. During their trial, Ethel in particular was vilified for prioritising communism over her children, and the prosecution insisted she had been the dominant half of the couple, purely because she was three years older. “She was the mastermind of this whole conspiracy,” assistant prosecutor Roy Cohn told the judge. But questions about whether she was guilty at all have been growing louder in recent years, and a new biography presents her in a different light. “Ethel was killed for being a wife.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
And don’t forget the damned Walker family spy ring and their “friend” Jerry Whitworth, who enabled the Soviets to crack the code for our bombers over Hanoi. The Israeli Mossad picked this up by its intercepts and alerted the US to it enabling the arrest of this rotten group of traitors who did it solely for money and who had not the slightest bit of decency. And they wore cheap toupees which made the murderers look ridiculous.
You know, it’s a bit like a virus. The virus enters a cell (ex. NYC, SF) and makes copies of itself. The cell eventually collapses and the many copies of the virus are released and go off to infect new locations.
The Venona Papers clearly demonstrate the Rosenberg’s guilt...
https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/venona/
I remember after the Soviet Union fell many of their secret records became open to the public. So yes the Rosenbergs were guilty. They were properly executed and are now resting in hell.
Why? I haven't seen it before. Nor have many FReepers.
2009 Vassiliev notebooks based on KGB archives In 2009, extensive notes collected from KGB archives were made public in a book published by Yale University Press: Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, written by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev; Vassiliev's notebooks included KGB comments concerning Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
The notebooks make clear that the KGB considered Julius Rosenberg an effective agent and his wife Ethel an enthusiastic supporter of his work
“The Rosenbergs were executed for their allegiances. The Soviets got nothing of value from them.”
Good enough for me.
Thanks for posting. I also did not see the earlier post.
The NYT still proudly display the Pulitizer prize that their apologist for Stalin - Walter Duranty got !
Kill em again!
..........below is a short article entitled “Case Closed”. It details how a co defendant (Morton Sobell,91) of the Rosenberg’s admitted that he and Julius were Soviet Agents.
The Rosenberg’s two sons, who changed their names to Meeropols, now engage in financially supporting people like cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal.
After reading the article, it appears to me that Julius and Ethel got what they deserved. I say that because of the radical belief that “spies” should be given the maximum punishment.
https://www.latimes.com/la-oe-radosh17-2008sep17-story.html
What is it about American commies trying to prove their innocence and Soviet commies embracing their guilt? That commie idiot Mark Lane started the deception path with Oswald not being the gunman with his bull$hit magic bullet crap. Embrace the fact Rosenberg boys, your parents were traitors here and heros in the Soviet Union. All you have to do is move.
“Please Remove” ???? WTFAY??
Many articles are posted multiple times.
I “cruise” FR to read the postings and if I didn’t see it last week then I’m glad to be able see it this week.
I certainly would not sit down and say to myself “I think I’ll search FR for an article on the Rosenbergs...” ???
Thank you!!!
Philby
As you said, "he who controls the past controls the future".
“...change the name from NYC to Rosenberg City. Would be appropriate!”
The Revvvrummmm Jackson got pilloried for his reference to “Hymietown” many years ago so I can just imagine how this might be received.
“I think the KGB archives revealed that Tailgunner Joe was spot on.”
Yes, and the US equivalent, The VENONA Files.
One of their surviving relatives , more or less, finally admitted about 10 years ago, that yes, both Julius AND Ethel DID steal secrets and give them to the USSR!!!!
Now , bring back the old laws that defined Treason, and start executing every Leftist traitor to the USA, ever since then - especially, those of the ‘60s!!!!
The Rosenbergs were executed because the US government didn’t want to be embarrassed by admitting that the head of our A-Bomb program was involved in passing the atomic secrets to the Soviets. J. Robert Oppenheimer had been marketed as a genius and hero, and was then too big to execute. The Rosenbergs were not. The purpose of their execution was to make other stars flame out and push satellites out of orbit.
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