David Greenglass

contact with. Elizabeth Bentley recieved many phone calls from a man named Julius. Although, Julius said David Greenglass has used his name before. David Greenglass is the brother-in-law of Julius. David Greenglass was apart of the Manhatten Project, and traded scetches of the atomic bomb for five hundred dollars, therefore he proved he may not be as innocent as we think he is. His wife, Ruth Greenglass, was also in contact with Julius. She said Julius had been in contact witht the Russians. She engaged

was actually a man by the name of Harry Gold. As a witness in the case, Harry Gold was called to the stands to testify. The police showed Gold a picture and he was able to identify that that was the man he met. “The man pictured was David Greenglass (Linder).” Greenglass told the authorities that his wife, Ruth, and his brother-in-law, Julius Rosenberg, were part of the Soviet spy ring. The government wanted to use Ethel and Julius as scapegoats and they wanted them to reveal the names of their associates

Rosenberg Spies In 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of passing information to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) concerning the construction of nuclear weapons. In 1953, the United States Government executed them. Some say, the Rosenbergs received their just punishment. Many historians feel that the trial was unfair, and that international claims for clemency were wrongly ignored. These historians claim that the Rosenbergs were assassinated by the US government

Julius and Ethel had similar backgrounds, their young lives influenced their communist beliefs. Ethel was born on September 28, 1915 (“Biography of Ethel” p.1). Ethel lived in New York City with her parents Barnet and Tessie Greenglass and her three siblings. Mr. Greenglass ran a repair shop for sewing machines, they hardly had enough money to feed everyone. The family lived in a tenement that was unheated. Ethel wanted a better life fr herself, she attended a religious school and graduated at age

In the United States, the 1950s was a time riddled with heightened political repression due to the fear of communism. This fear was instilled in the people by the American government, who saw the growing fondness of communism around the world as a threat to the American way of life. With Senator Joseph McCarthy as the head of the communist witch hunt, this period in time is often referred to as the McCarthy Era. The McCarthy Era is marked by unjust accusations of disloyalty to the United States without

In early March of 1951, the case United States v Julius Rosenberg, Ethel Rosenberg, and Morton Sobell argued whether the Rosenbergs planned execution should forgo or be rescinded for violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and being guilty of starting the Korean War. In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s the Cold War was ongoing, with the United States and the Soviet Union entrenched in an ongoing battle over the supremacy of the west. Paul Frazier, an author for the Magazine of History in Bloomington

American Communist Party until they decided to act upon they own illicit activities.(Casalaspi) They were said to be responsible by Ethel’s brother-in-law, David Greenglass and a Philadelphia chemist, Harry Gold. After admitting to their own illegal activities Greenglass and Gold served as the primary witnesses in the trial.(Casalaspi) Greenglass, who himself had confessed to providing nuclear secrets to the Soviets through an intercessor, later served 10 years in prison. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

purloin top-secret atomic weapons information and deliver it to the Soviet Union to assume their enemy’s next move. According to the text,“Evidence of a spy ring operating within the U.S. was quickly discovered. In 1950, the U.S. learned that David Greenglass, a machinist who assisted in building atomic bombs for the military in New Mexico, had

The United States and Communist Russia endured a complicated relationship in the first half of the 20th century. In the early 1940’s the U.S. had encouraged an alliance with the Soviets against their common enemy, Nazi Germany. This short-lived accord began to deteriorate as WW II ended. By 1947 U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union had shifted from one of cooperation to a policy of containment. In 1949, when the Soviets tested their first atomic bomb, it was a widely-held belief in the U.S. that

the unification and later division of the tribes of Israel. In the Hebrew Bible, various tribes are depicted as encompassing the land of Canaan prior to a time modern scholars refer to as the united monarchy, which refers to the rule of King Saul, David and Solomon.