[blau993]

I remember when Greenglass' book was published in 2001. I have never read it, and I'd be interested in the thoughts of those who have. My reaction was that this was a gesture by an old man trying to square himself with family and friends who have long blamed him for "betraying" the Rosenbergs. I did not find his recantation so many years after the fact believable.

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. I refuse to believe that any man who loved his wife (and, by all accounts, Julius loved Ethel) could allow her to go to her death if he believed her to be innocent.

[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.