[Lonesome in Massachussets]

>> As for Ethel's guilt or innocence, I think it is clear that she was guilty at some level -- if not of espionage itself, certainly of knowledge of her husband's espionage.

Ethel typed her husband's notes and was the ideologically more committed of the couple. Ethel also recruited her brother. Without him, they wouldn't have had any intelligence to offer. She was worst than Julius.

[blau993]

Ethel typed her husband's notes and was the ideologically more committed of the couple. Ethel also recruited her brother.

That was the Government's argument with respect to Ethel, but even people on the Government side have expressed some doubt about Ethel's actual participation. The proof against her was thin, and there is no doubt, as the article notes, that the Government was using her as a bargaining chip to get Julius to open up. All of which does not mean she was innocent. It just casts doubt on whether the Government really proved her guilt.