National Security Archive and Historians Secure Long Secret Rosenberg Grand Jury Testimony
New - September 11, 2008
National Security Archive and Historians Secure Long Secret Rosenberg Grand Jury Testimony
Ruth Greenglass testimony fails to mention Ethel Rosenberg typing spy information
Newly Released Grand Jury Transcripts Now Available
Posted - September 11, 2008, 12 noon
For more information contact:
Thomas Blanton or Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
David Vladeck - 202/662-9535
Washington, D.C., September 11, 2008 - Most of the Rosenberg Grand Jury files were released today, more than fifty years after Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were indicted on espionage charges, convicted, and executed.
According to historians who reviewed the documents this morning at the National Security Archive, the most striking new evidence comes from the grand jury testimony of Ruth Greenglass, sister-in-law of Ethel Rosenberg. In contradiction to Ruth Greenglass’s later trial testimony, her grand jury testimony does not mention Ethel Rosenberg’s typing any of the information being passed to the Soviets about the U.S. atomic program. In fact, the grand jury testimony describes that information being passed in Ruth’s own longhand (p. 9142).
Ronald Radosh, co-author of The Rosenberg File and one of the experts who filed affidavits in the case, commented, “The grand jury documents cast significant doubt on the key prosecution charge used to convict Ethel Rosenberg at the trial and sentence her to death.”
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National Security Archive and Historians Secure Long Secret Rosenberg Grand Jury Testimony
Ruth Greenglass testimony fails to mention Ethel Rosenberg typing spy information
Newly Released Grand Jury Transcripts Now Available
Posted - September 11, 2008, 12 noon
For more information contact:
Thomas Blanton or Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
David Vladeck - 202/662-9535
Washington, D.C., September 11, 2008 - Most of the Rosenberg Grand Jury files were released today, more than fifty years after Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were indicted on espionage charges, convicted, and executed.
According to historians who reviewed the documents this morning at the National Security Archive, the most striking new evidence comes from the grand jury testimony of Ruth Greenglass, sister-in-law of Ethel Rosenberg. In contradiction to Ruth Greenglass’s later trial testimony, her grand jury testimony does not mention Ethel Rosenberg’s typing any of the information being passed to the Soviets about the U.S. atomic program. In fact, the grand jury testimony describes that information being passed in Ruth’s own longhand (p. 9142).
Ronald Radosh, co-author of The Rosenberg File and one of the experts who filed affidavits in the case, commented, “The grand jury documents cast significant doubt on the key prosecution charge used to convict Ethel Rosenberg at the trial and sentence her to death.”
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