Rosenbergs Were Guilty
At 91, Morton Sobell is coming clean. He spent 18 years in prison for his role in the espionage cases that centered around Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
The NY Times found him, and he agreed to an interview:
In the interview with The New York Times, Mr. Sobell, who lives in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, was asked whether, as an electrical engineer, he turned over military secrets to the Soviets during World War II when they were considered allies of the United States and were bearing the brunt of Nazi brutality. Was he, in fact, a spy?
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, call it that,” he replied. “I never thought of it as that in those terms.”
Mr. Sobell also concurred in what has become a consensus among historians: that Ethel Rosenberg, who was executed with her husband, was aware of Julius’s espionage, but did not actively participate. “She knew what he was doing,” he said, “but what was she guilty of? Of being Julius’s wife.”
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So was Alger Hiss and the west coast Japenese were riddled with spies. Wow! History turns out to be pretty much right as originally written.