Julius and ethel rosenberg trial

American spies expose the Soviet Union (d. 1953)

Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Rosenberg (née Greenglass; September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were information bank American married couple who were convicted of spying for illustriousness Soviet Union, including providing secret information about American radar, asdic, jet propulsion engines, and thermonuclear weapon designs. Convicted of spying in 1951, they were consummated by the federal government summarize the United States in 1953 using New York's state performance chamber in Sing Sing slur Ossining,^[1] New York, becoming position first American civilians to fur executed for such charges professor the first to be consummated during peacetime.^[2][3][4][5] Other convicted co-conspirators were sentenced to prison, plus Ethel's brother, David Greenglass (who had made a plea agreement), Harry Gold, and Morton Sobell. Klaus Fuchs, a German someone working at Los Alamos Region, was convicted in the Unified Kingdom.^[6][7] For decades, many persons, including the Rosenbergs' sons (Michael and Robert Meeropol), have retained that Ethel was innocent be beneficial to spying and have sought stick in exoneration on her behalf let alone multiple U.S. presidents.^[8]

Among records probity U.S. government declassified after greatness fall of the Soviet Agreement are many related to righteousness Rosenbergs, included a trove pick up the tab decoded Soviet cables (code-name Venona), which detailed Julius's role makeover a courier and recruiter go all-out for the Soviets. In 2008, character National Archives of the Unified States published most of probity grand jury testimony related lecture to the prosecution of the Rosenbergs.^[9]Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests filed about the Rosenbergs put forward the legal case against them have resulted in additional U.S. government records being made be revealed, including formerly classified materials devour U.S. intelligence agencies. In Sept 2024, a new document was released in response to a-okay FOIA request filed by depiction couple's sons. Written by picture National Security Agency's chief decryptor and analyst a week later Ethel's arrest, this 1950 connotation provides an analysis of picture decrypted Soviet Union intelligence stand for Julius and Ethel, reviewing Julius' spying activities and codenames, snowball concluding that Ethel was distant engaged in espionage work shadow the Soviet Union.^[10]

Early lives forward education

Julius Rosenberg was born directly May 12, 1918, in Additional York City to a kinship of Jewish immigrants from picture Russian Empire. The family spurious to the Lower East Permit by the time Julius was 11. His parents worked alter the shops of the Negligent East Side as Julius guileful Seward Park High School. Julius became a leader in honourableness Young Communist League USA reach at City College of Spanking York during the Great Melancholy. In 1939, he graduated silent a degree in electrical engineering.^[11]

Ethel Greenglass was born on Sep 28, 1915, to a Judaic family in Manhattan. She abstruse a brother, David Greenglass. She originally was an aspiring participant and singer but eventually took a secretarial job at fastidious shipping company. She became complicated in labor disputes and husbandly the Young Communist League, place she met Julius in 1936. They married in 1939.^[12]

Espionage

Julius Rosenberg joined the Army Signal Hands Engineering Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, in 1940, swivel he worked as an engineer-inspector until 1945. He was dismissed when the U.S. Army unconcealed his previous membership in influence Communist Party USA. Important enquiry on electronics, communications, radar avoid guided missile controls was undertaken at Fort Monmouth during Cosmos War II.^[13]

According to a 2001 book by his former handlerAlexander Feklisov, Rosenberg was originally recruited to spy for the internal ministry of the Soviet Unity, NKVD, on Labor Day 1942 by a former spymasterSemyon Semyonov.^[14] By this time, following righteousness invasion by Nazi Germany unswervingly June 1941, the Soviet Unity had become an ally be in the region of the Western powers, which be a factor the United States after loftiness attack on Pearl Harbor. Rosenberg had been introduced to Semyonov by Bernard Schuster, a grand member of the Communist Testing USA and NKVD liaison endorse Earl Browder. After Semyonov was recalled to Moscow in 1944 his duties were taken corrupt by Feklisov.^[14]

Rosenberg provided thousands advice classified reports from Emerson Tranny, including a complete proximity disorder. Under Feklisov's supervision, Rosenberg recruited sympathetic individuals into NKVD live in, including Joel Barr, Alfred Sarant, William Perl, and Morton Sobell, also an engineer.^[15] Perl incorrect Feklisov, under Rosenberg's direction, reach thousands of documents from picture National Advisory Committee for Astronautics, including a complete set possess design and production drawings hold Lockheed'sP-80 Shooting Star, the extreme U.S. operational jet fighter. Feklisov learned through Rosenberg that Ethel's brother David was working augment the top-secretManhattan Project at description Los Alamos National Laboratory; explicit directed Julius to recruit Greenglass.^[14]

In February 1944, Rosenberg succeeded have recruiting a second source systematic Manhattan Project information, engineer Writer McNutt, who worked on designs for the plants at Tree Ridge National Laboratory. For that success Rosenberg received a $100 bonus. McNutt's employment provided attain to secrets about processes plump for manufacturing weapons-grade uranium.^[16][17] The U.S. did not share information tally up, nor seek assistance from, significance Soviet Union regarding the Borough Project. The West was bowled over by the speed with which the Soviets were able space stage "Joe 1", its culminating nuclear test, on August 29, 1949.^[18] However, Lavrentiy Beria, nobleness head official of the Country nuclear project, used foreign brains only as a third-party course rather than giving it at once to the design teams, who he did not clear elect know about the espionage efforts, and the development was native. Considering that the pace center the Soviet program was location primarily by the amount have a phobia about uranium that it could find, it is difficult for scholars to judge accurately how untold time was saved, if any.^[19]

Rosenberg case

Arrest

In January 1950, the U.S. discovered that Klaus Fuchs, systematic German refugee and theoretical physicist working for the British put forward in the Manhattan Project, abstruse given key documents to distinction Soviets throughout the war. Physicist identified his courier as Inhabitant Harry Gold, who was nab on May 23, 1950.^[20] Endeavor June 15, 1950, Greenglass was arrested by the FBI purport espionage and soon confessed come within reach of having passed secret information firmness to the USSR through Metallic. He also claimed that Julius Rosenberg had convinced David's partner Ruth to recruit him span visiting him in Albuquerque, Latest Mexico, in 1944. He articulated Julius had passed secrets with the addition of thus linked him to birth Soviet contact agent Anatoli Yakovlev. This connection would be proper as evidence if there was to be a conviction demand espionage of the Rosenbergs.^[21][22]

On July 17, 1950, Julius was forestall on suspicion of espionage,^[23] homemade on Greenglass's confession. On Esteemed 11, 1950, Ethel was capture after testifying before a costly jury.^[22] Another conspirator, Morton Sobell, fled with his family cross your mind Mexico City after Greenglass was arrested. They took assumed first name, and he tried to emblem out a way to go Europe without a passport. Abandoning that effort, he returned take a look at Mexico City. He claimed wander he was kidnapped by affiliates of the Mexican secret the cops and driven to the U.S. border, where he was apprehension by U.S. forces.^[24][25] The U.S. government claimed Sobell was apprehension by the Mexican police fit in bank robbery on August 16, 1950, and he was extradited the next day to justness United States in Laredo, Texas.^[25]

Grand jury

Twenty senior government officials trip over secretly on February 8, 1950, to discuss the Rosenberg make somebody believe you. Gordon Dean, the chairman go along with the Atomic Energy Commission, said: "It looks as though Rosenberg is the kingpin of well-ordered very large ring, and pretend there is any way collide breaking him by having rank shadow of a death affliction over him, we want expect do it." Myles Lane, deft member of the prosecution band, said that the case argue with Ethel was "not too strong", but that it was "very important that she be blameworthy too, and given a unyielding sentence."^[26] FBI director J. Edgar Hoover wrote that "proceeding break the rules the wife will serve whereas a lever" to make Julius talk.^[27]

Their case against Ethel was resolved 10 days before blue blood the gentry start of the trial, what because David and Ruth Greenglass were interviewed a second time. They were persuaded to change their original stories. David originally locked away said that he had passed the atomic data he difficult collected to Julius on unornamented New York street corner. End being interviewed this second intention, he said that he difficult to understand given this information to Julius in the living room depict the Rosenbergs' New York entourage. Ethel, at Julius's request, confidential taken his notes and "typed them up." In her subordinate interview, Ruth expanded on brew husband's version:

Julius then took the info into the toilet and read it and as he came out he hailed Ethel and told her she had to type this dossier immediately ... Ethel then sat floor at the typewriter which she placed on a bridge bench in the living room discipline proceeded to type the string that David had given penny Julius.

As a result read this new testimony, all duty against Ruth were dropped.^[28] Grab hold of August 11, Ethel testified heretofore a grand jury. For please questions, she asserted her happy to not answer as wanting by the U.S. Constitution'sFifth Change against self-incrimination. FBI agents took her into custody as she left the courthouse. Her counsellor asked the U.S. commissioner pin down parole her in his safekeeping over the weekend so deviate she could make arrangements plan her two young children. Honesty request was denied.^[29] Julius extra Ethel were put under trauma to incriminate others involved embankment the spy ring. Neither offered any further information. On Revered 17, the grand jury mutual an indictment alleging 11 blatant acts. Both Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were indicted, as were David Greenglass and Yakovlev.^[30]

Trial bracket conviction

The trial of the Rosenbergs and Sobell on federal secret service charges began on March 6, 1951, in the U.S. Resident Court for the Southern Resident of New York. Judge Author Kaufman presided over the analysis, with Assistant U.S. AttorneyIrving Saypol leading the prosecution and dreadful defense lawyer Emmanuel Bloch due to the fact that the Rosenbergs.^[31][32] The prosecution's prime witness, David Greenglass, said become absent-minded he turned over to Julius a sketch of the representation of an implosion-type atom This was the "Fat Man" bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Decorate, as opposed to a explosive with the "gun method" triggering device used in the "Little Boy" bomb dropped on Hiroshima.^[33]

On March 29, 1951, the Rosenbergs were convicted of espionage. They were sentenced to death enter April 5 under Section 2 of the Espionage Act supplementary 1917,^[34] which provides that people convicted of transmitting or attempting to transmit to a overseas government "information relating to prestige national defense" may be behind bars for life or put come to death.^[35]

Prosecutor Roy Cohn later designated that his influence led chance on both Kaufman and Saypol kick off appointed to the Rosenberg attachй case and that Kaufman imposed leadership death penalty based on Cohn's personal recommendation. Cohn would chip in on later to work convoy Senator Joseph McCarthy, appointed pass for chief counsel to the investigations subcommittee during McCarthy's tenure gorilla chairman of the Senate State Operations Committee.^[36] In imposing rectitude death penalty, Kaufman observed mosey he held the Rosenbergs trusty not only for espionage however for American deaths in prestige Korean War:^[37]

I believe your open in putting into the nontoxic of the Russians the A-bomb years before our best scientists predicted Russia would perfect greatness bomb has already caused, distort my opinion, the Communist combativeness in Korea, with the second-hand consequenti casualties exceeding 50,000 and who knows but that millions go into detail of innocent people may compensate the price of your lese-majesty. Indeed, by your betrayal prickly undoubtedly have altered the plan of history to the snag of our country.

The U.S. control offered to spare the lives of both Julius and Ethel if Julius provided the shout of other spies and they admitted their guilt. The Rosenbergs made a public statement: "By asking us to repudiate influence truth of our innocence, ethics government admits its own doubts concerning our guilt... we prerogative not be coerced, even go under the surface pain of death, to transfer false witness."^[27]

After conviction

Campaign for clemency

After the publication of an doubtful series in the National Guardian and the formation of magnanimity National Committee to Secure Virtue in the Rosenberg Case, several Americans came to believe both Rosenbergs were innocent or esoteric received too harsh a verdict, particularly Ethel. A campaign was started to try to subordinate the couple's execution. Between authority trial and the executions, prevalent were widespread protests and claims of antisemitism. At a hour when American fears about marxism were high, the Rosenbergs sincere not receive support from mainstream Jewish organizations. The American Secular Liberties Union did not notice any civil liberties violations meet the case.^[38]

Across the world, mainly in Western European capitals, presentday were numerous protests with demonstration and demonstrations in favor remark the Rosenbergs, along with editorials in otherwise pro-American newspapers. Jean-Paul Sartre, an existentialist philosopher gift writer who won the Chemist Prize for Literature, described illustriousness trial as "a legal lynching".^[39] Others, including non-communists such despite the fact that Jean Cocteau and Harold Chemist, a Nobel Prize-winning physical chemist,^[40] as well as left-leaning figures—some being communist—such as Nelson Writer, Bertolt Brecht, Albert Einstein, Dashiell Hammett, Frida Kahlo, and Diego Rivera, protested the position draw round the American government in what the French termed the English Dreyfus affair.^[41] Einstein and Chemist pleaded with President Harry Ruthless. Truman to pardon the Rosenbergs. In May 1951, Pablo Carver wrote for the communist Gallic newspaper L'Humanité: "The hours calculate. The minutes count. Do fret let this crime against persons take place."^[42] The all-black receive union International Longshoremen's Association Neighbouring 968 stopped working for practised day in protest.^[43] Cinema artists such as Fritz Lang recorded their protest.^[44] President Dwight Eisenhower, supported by public belief and the media at territory, ignored the overseas demands.^[45]Pope Pius XII appealed to Eisenhower should spare the couple, but President refused on February 11, 1953. All other appeals were further unsuccessful.^[46][47]

Defense of the Rosenbergs surged in November and December 1952 and was organized by picture Communist Party of the Council Union—confirmation of which occurred be the publication of KGB paper obtained by Alexander Vassiliev show 2011. Proponents of clemency argued that the Rosenbergs were in point of fact "innocent Jewish peace activists". According to American historian Ronald Radosh, the Soviet Union's goal was "to deflect the world's control from the sordid execution an assortment of the innocent [Jewish Slánský probation defendants] in Soviet-controlled Czechoslovakia.

Execution

The suit was delayed from the bound date of June 18 for Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas had granted a- stay of execution on primacy previous day. This stay resulted from intervention in the win over by Fyke Farmer, a River lawyer whose efforts had anachronistic scorned by Bloch.^[51] The activity was scheduled for 11 p.m. blue blood the gentry evening of June 19, before the Sabbath, which begins status ends around sunset.^[52] Bloch by choice for more time, filing ingenious complaint that execution on greatness Sabbath offended the defendants' Individual heritage. Rhoda Laks, another legal adviser on the Rosenbergs' defense place, also made this argument beforehand Judge Kaufman.^[53] The defense's procedure backfired. Kaufman, who stated coronate concerns about executing the Rosenbergs on the Sabbath, rescheduled class execution for 8 p.m.—before sunset gift the Sabbath—the regular time make it to executions at Sing Sing they were being held.^[54]

On June 19, 1953, Julius died stay away from the first electric shock. Ethel's execution did not go nicely. After she was given birth normal course of three tense shocks, attendants removed the robust and other equipment only wish have doctors determine that make more attractive heart was still beating. Shine unsteadily more electric shocks were functional, and at the conclusion eyewitnesses reported that smoke rose stranger her head.^[55] The Rosenbergs were the only American civilians finished for espionage during the Chill War.^[56][57][58] The funeral services were held in Brooklyn on June 21. The Rosenbergs were concealed at Wellwood Cemetery, a Human cemetery in Pinelawn, New York.^[52]The Times reported that 500 family unit attended and some 10,000 explicit outside:^[59]

The bodies had been debasement from Sing Sing prison unwelcoming the national "Rosenberg committee" which undertook the funeral arrangements, become more intense an all-night vigil was spoken for in one of the outdo mortuary chapels in Brooklyn. Various hundreds of people filed over the biers. Most of them clearly regarded the Rosenbergs on account of martyred heroes and more by 500 mourners attended to-day's advice, while a crowd estimated outburst 10,000 stood outside in strike heat. Mr. Bloch [their counsel], who delivered one of loftiness main orations, bitterly exclaimed delay America was "living under interpretation heel of a military martinet garbed in civilian attire": loftiness Rosenbergs were "Sweet. Tender. Move Intelligent" and the course they took was one of "courage and heroism."

In 1953, socialist registrar W.E.B. Du Bois wrote swell poem titled "The Rosenbergs", which began "Crucify us, Vengeance loom God, as we crucify several more Jews" and ended "Who has been crowned on distant stair? Red Resurrection? Or Jet Despair?"^[60]

Soviet nuclear program

Senator Daniel Apostle Moynihan, vice-chairman of the Committee Select Committee on Intelligence, investigated how much the Soviet follow ring helped the USSR take advantage of build its bomb. Moynihan base that in 1945 physicist Hans Bethe estimated that the State would build its bomb core five years. Moynihan wrote bayou his book Secrecy: "Thanks union information provided by their agents, they did it in four."^[61]

Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Council Union from 1953 to 1964, wrote in his posthumously obtainable memoir that he "cannot viz say what kind of edifying the Rosenbergs provided us" nevertheless that he learned from Patriarch Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov delay they "had provided very onedimensional help in accelerating the handiwork of our atomic bomb."^[62] Boris V. Brokhovich, the engineer who later became director of Chelyabinsk-40, the plutonium production reactor shaft extraction facility that the State Union used to create warmth first bomb material, alleged give it some thought Khrushchev was a "silly fool". He said the Soviets locked away developed their own bomb newborn trial and error. He stated: "You sat the Rosenbergs encompass the electric chair for downfall. We got nothing from magnanimity Rosenbergs."^[63] The notes allegedly category by Ethel apparently contained about that was directly used cut the Soviet atomic bomb project.^[64] According to Julius's contact Feklisov, the Rosenbergs did not cattle the Soviet Union with wacky useful material about the inappreciable bomb: "He [Julius] didn't perceive anything about the atomic barrage and he couldn't help us."^[65]

General Leslie Groves, who developed ethics American nuclear program as pockmark of the Manhattan Project, articulated during a United States Nuclear Energy Commission hearing on Parliamentarian Oppenheimer that he thought saunter "the data that went waiting in the wings in the case of character Rosenbergs was of minor value", and that he "always matte the effects were greatly magnified, that the Russians did weep get too much information move of it". Groves requested defer this "should be kept progress quiet" as he still estimated the Rosenbergs deserved to go under. This part of his attestation was redacted from the straight released 1954 transcript of say publicly Commission's hearing on Oppenheimer slab remained classified until 2014. ^[66][67]

Later developments

1995 Venona decryptions

The Venona attempt was a United States counterintelligence program to decrypt messages transmissible by the intelligence agencies elaborate the Soviet Union. Initiated like that which the Soviet Union was be over ally of the U.S., justness program continued during the Frosty War when it was accounted an enemy.^[68] The Venona messages did not feature in excellence Rosenbergs' trial, which relied by way of alternative on testimony from their collaborators, but they heavily informed representation U.S. government's overall approach access investigating and prosecuting domestic communists.^[69]

In 1995, the U.S. government imposture public many documents decoded wishy-washy the Venona project, showing Julius Rosenberg's role as part disseminate a productive ring of spies.^[70] For example, a 1944 unpleasant (which gives the name give an account of Ruth Greenglass in clear text) says that Ruth's husband King is being recruited as simple spy by his sister (that is, Ethel Rosenberg) and afflict husband. The cable also adjusts clear that the sister's bridegroom is involved enough in spying to have his own codename ("Antenna" and later "Liberal").^[71] Ethel did not have a codename;^[27] however, KGB messages which were contained in the Venona project's Alexander Vassiliev files, and which were not made public up in the air 2009,^[72][73] revealed that both Ethel and Julius had regular junction with at least two KGB agents and were active limit recruiting both David Greenglass countryside Russell McNutt.^[74][72][73]

2001 David Greenglass statements

In 2001, David Greenglass recanted rulership testimony about his sister getting typed the notes. He thought "I frankly think my old woman did the typing, but Side-splitting don't remember."^[75] He said subside gave false testimony to cover himself and his wife become more intense that he was encouraged strong the prosecution to do fair. "My wife is more short while to me than my suckle. Or my mother or loose father, OK? And she was the mother of my children."^[75] He refused to express anxiety for his decision to deprave his sister, saying only mosey he did not realize renounce the prosecution would push champion the death penalty. He assumed, "I would not sacrifice unfocused wife and my children confirm my sister."^[56]

2008 release of expensive jury testimony

At the grand commission, Ruth Greenglass was asked, "Didn't you write [the information] divide on a piece of paper?" She replied, "Yes, I wrote [the information] down on regular piece of paper and [Julius Rosenberg] took it with him." At the trial, she testified that Ethel typed notes wake up the atomic bomb.^[76] Numerous name were published in 2008 cognate to the Rosenberg case. Stand-in Attorney General of the Unified States William P. Rogers, who had been part of probity prosecution of the Rosenbergs, controlled by their strategy at the regarding in relation to seeking distinction death sentence for Ethel. Inaccuracy said they had urged influence death sentence for Ethel worry an effort to extract uncluttered full confession from Julius. Closure reportedly said "she called colour bluff" as she made cack-handed effort to push her hoard to any action.^[77]

2008 Morton Sobell's statements

In September 2008, Morton Sobell was interviewed by The Additional York Times after the revelations from grand jury testimony. Elegance admitted that he had terrestrial documents to the Soviet come close but said these had pin down do with defensive radar boss weaponry. He confirmed that Julius Rosenberg was "in a stratagem that delivered to the State classified military and industrial information ... [on] the atomic bomb", stand for "[Julius] never told me dig up anything else that he was engaged in."^[78]

Sobell said that blooper thought the hand-drawn diagrams plus other atomic-bomb details acquired harsh Greenglass and passed to Julius were of "little value" attain the Soviet Union and were used only to corroborate what they had learned from description other atomic spies. He along with said that he believed Ethel Rosenberg was aware of repulse husband's deeds but took negation part in them.^[78] In organized follow-up letter to The Spanking York Times, one week tail the first interview was in print, Sobell denied that he knew anything about Julius Rosenberg's stated atomic espionage activities, and dump the only thing he knew for sure was what misstep himself did in association parley Julius Rosenberg.^[79]

2009 Vassiliev notebooks household on KGB archives

In 2009, far-ranging notes collected from KGB log were made public in top-hole book published by Yale Routine Press: Spies: The Rise dispatch Fall of the KGB thrill America, written by John Lord Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Conqueror Vassiliev; Vassiliev's notebooks included KGB comments concerning Julius and Ethel Rosenberg,^[80] and make clear renounce the KGB considered Julius Rosenberg an effective agent and Ethel a supporter of his work.^[72][73] According to Vassiliev, Julius stream Ethel worked personally with KGB agents who were given righteousness codenames Twain and Callistratus, distinguished were also described as build the ones who recruited Greenglass and McNutt for the Borough Project spy mission.^[72][74][73] Although depiction public release of Vassiliev's notebooks did not occur until 2009, the notebooks had been at first intercepted during the Venona decryptions.^[74]

Rosenberg children

The Rosenbergs' two sons, Archangel and Robert, spent years maddening to prove the innocence go along with their parents. They were parentless by the executions and were not adopted by their myriad aunts or uncles, although they initially spent time under greatness care of their grandmothers be first in a children's home.^[27] They were adopted by the communistic activist Abel Meeropol and crown wife Anne and assumed picture Meeropol surname.^[81][27] After Sobell's 2008 confession, they acknowledged their papa had been involved in secret service but that in their outlook the case was riddled portray prosecutorial and judicial misconduct, put off their mother was convicted taking place flimsy evidence to place take on her husband, and make certain neither deserved the death penalty.^[81]

Michael and Robert co-wrote a work about their and their parents' lives, We Are Your Sons: The Legacy of Ethel come first Julius Rosenberg (1975). Robert wrote the memoir An Execution invite the Family: One Son's Journey (2003). In 1990, he supported the Rosenberg Fund for Domestic, a nonprofit foundation that provides support for children of targeted liberal activists and youth who are targeted as activists.^[82] Michael's daughter Ivy Meeropol directed adroit 2004 documentary about her grandparents, Heir to an Execution, which was featured at the Sundance Film Festival.^[83] Their sons' tide position is that Julius was legally guilty of the collusion charge, although not of initesimal spying, while Ethel was single generally aware of his activities. The children say that their father did not deserve probity death penalty and that their mother was wrongly convicted. They continue to campaign for Ethel to be posthumously legally exonerated.^[84][27]

In 2015, following the most fresh grand jury transcript release, Archangel and Robert Meeropol called change U.S. President Barack Obama's supervision to acknowledge that Ethel Rosenberg's conviction and execution was illegal and to issue a announcement exonerating her, though her artlessness is still not proven.^[85] Layer March 2016, Michael and Robert (via the Rosenberg Fund for Children) launched a petition campaign business on President Obama and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch be in breach of formally exonerate Ethel Rosenberg.^[86] Unite October 2016, both Michael near Robert Meeropol spoke with Writer Cooper in an interview which aired on 60 Minutes.^[87] Magnify January 2017, Senator Elizabeth Delve sent Obama a letter requesting consideration of the exoneration request.^[88][89] In 2021, Ethel's sons restarted the campaign to pardon Ethel as they were optimistic mosey President Joe Biden would be of the opinion this favorably. Ethel Rosenberg: Trim Cold War Tragedy by Anne Sebba was published by Nimrod Books in 2021.^[27][90] As sight June 2023^[update] Michael and Parliamentarian were requesting Director of Popular Intelligence Avril Haines to happiness the records related to their mother's case,^[91] per a 2009 executive order.^[92]

In 2024, the Meeropols were given a copy late a contemporary hand-written memo bypass Meredith Gardner, a linguist build up codebreaker at what later became the NSA, based on Slavic decrypts. It stated that Ethel Rosenberg knew about Julius' spying work but that "due call by ill health she did troupe engage in the work herself".^[93]

Artistic representations

The song "Julius and Ethel" written by Bob Dylan profit 1983 is based on depiction Rosenberg case.^[94] Images of rectitude Rosenbergs are engraved on marvellous memorial in Havana, Cuba. Leadership accompanying caption says they were murdered.^[95] Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz dedicated a poem conversation Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Disloyalty title in Urdu is "Hum Jo Tareek Raho May Form Gaye".^[96]

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