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Ever since he was tried and convicted with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on espionage charges in 1951, Morton Sobell has maintained his innocence. A U.S. Marshal escorted Morton Sobell, left, to Federal Court in New York in March of 1951. Until now. In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Sobell, who served nearly 19 years in Alcatraz and other federal prisons, admitted for the first time that he had been a Soviet spy. And he implicated his fellow defendant, Julius Rosenberg, in a conspiracy that delivered to the Soviets vital classified military information and what the American government claimed was the...

Aaron Katz, who for more than 50 years relentlessly and publicly sought the exoneration of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the central figures in the nation’s most controversial spying case, died on Sept. 28 in Venice, Fla. He was 92 and lived in North Port, Fla. The death was confirmed by his wife, Cynthia. Mr. Katz was director of the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case for 42 years, repeatedly leading demonstrations outside the federal courthouse on Foley Square in Manhattan on the anniversary of the couple’s execution in Sing Sing’s electric chair on June 19, 1953. They had been...

With Morton Sobell’s recent admission that both he and his comrade Julius Rosenberg were Soviet spies, “the end has arrived for the legions of the American left wing that have argued relentlessly for more than half a century that the Rosenbergs were victims, framed by a hostile, fear-mongering U.S. government.” For decades, the Left has painted the Rosenbergs, along with Alger Hiss and other Soviet spies, as martyrs for civil liberties, sentenced only for their political beliefs and opposition to the bi-partisan Cold War anti-Soviet foreign policy.

Vlad Sobell, Ph.D. Born in Prague but emigrated to the UK in 1969. After gaining a PhD on Comecon at St Antony's College, Oxford, worked as an analyst at Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe Research in Munich. On return to the UK in 1990 worked as Senior Editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit in London, covering Central Europe and Russia. Since 1996 has worked as Senior Economist at Daiwa Institute of Research, London. MOSCOW, August 30 (Vlad Sobell for RIA Novosti). With the ending of the Yukos affair, Russia has entered a more optimistic phase, allowing minds to focus on the...

Vlad Sobell, Ph.D. Born in Prague but emigrated to the UK in 1969. After gaining a PhD on Comecon at St Antony's College, Oxford, worked as an analyst at Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe Research in Munich. On return to the UK in 1990 worked as Senior Editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit in London, covering Central Europe and Russia. Since 1996 has worked as Senior Economist at Daiwa Institute of Research, London. As the presidential succession approaches, Putin’s era surely must be seen as a triumphant restoration of Russia’s integrity and arrival on the global stage. His orderly departure, in...