Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: guilty!

The case of the infamous cold war espionage, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg took a new direction. His son, Robert Meeropol, after years of denials, finally admitted "his father deserved to have been convicted of legal charges that led to the implementation of their parents. 'Yes, he was guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage, ' "Meeropol said the New York Times reporter Sam Roberts.

That must have come as a blow to the Times, which has been a leader in the leftist campaign to exonerate the Rosenbergs, and as of 2003, fifty years after their executions, was still editorializing, "still haunts the Rosenbergs americanalembrando-history of injustice that can be made when a nation Gets caught on hysteria."

There may have been a degree of hysteria at the time when American hid schoolkids on their tables to protect themselves from The Bomb, compliments of thermonuclear explosion, u.s.s.r. and their parents read newspapers detailing the Russian threat, but there was no injustice in the case of the Rosenbergs and Sobell cúmpliceMorton.

As Julius and Ethel, Sobell also pleaded not guilty. However, he fled with a period of 30 years and served less than 18 at Alcatraz and other federal prisons. Forty-two years after his release, he admitted his guilt Julius Rosenberg, Sam Roberts, and also to itself. Asked if he was a spy who supplied American nuclear secrets for Uncle Joe Stalin, the aged Sobell tried to alleviate their crimes and replied: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, call as well. I never thought of it as that. "

If there were any injustice in Rosenberg-Sobell lies in the fact that he and Sobell Ethel Rosenberg's brother and another accomplice, David Greenglass, FRY in Old Sparky from Sing Sing, his electric chair. Space should also have been done for William Perl, American physicist who helped design the Mig-15.

Spilling our nuclear technology to the Soviets seriously threatened millions of Americans for decades even if Sobell believes the Russians have had a lot of information that surreptitiously passed on. Why not known for their creativity, the Russkies (1987) had the data which have been stolen from another source and if it were "rubbish", as Sobell called that Greenglass shared, being so secretive about it?

There is also a Jewish component in Rosenberg. Not only were the Rosenbergs Jews but so, too, were Greenglass, Sobell, Perl and lesser alleged conspirators known as Max Elitcher.

Despite the admission of Meeropol, which came only after revelations after the Venona project outed the Rosenbergs, Greenglass, Sobell and a host of other Soviet spies, he still can't bring himself to be totally clear about his parents: "Ethel [her mother] was not a spy and Julius [father] was ignorant of the atomic bomb project. They were innocent of stealing the secret of the atomic bomb and they were fighting for their lives. It would have been almost impossible for them to explain to their children and supporters the subtle distinction between not be guilty of stealing Atomic secrets and innocence blanket. Given that, I can understand the course of action from a political point of view: "http://bit.ly/iaofn3

Given parental Meeropol connection to the Rosenbergs, I can understand your ambivalence. Given allegiance implied and responsibilities of parents for their country, can't understand his betrayal. Having regard to my understanding of what makes an American spies, whatever your religion, nor the Rosenbergs and Sobell nor Greenglass qualify and if Ethel were truly entirely oblivious to the machinations of her husband she anti-American must have been a stupendously stupid woman.