[SMARTY]

I read about these people...they were real maggots

[marktwain]

“Ethel was certainly part of the spy ring, had played a key role in recruiting others to join it, and was guilty as charged.”

“high among those injustices was the execution of Ethel Rosenberg”

These two statements seem contradictory to me. Somehow typing up notes is more heinous than recruiting for the spy ring?

[IronJack]

Arguing about who was the biggest worm among the Rosenbergs and Greenglass is like trying to pick the nastiest turd from a pigsty.

[sphinx]

I have always wondered if there is more to the story on how David Greenglass got assigned to Los Alamos in the first place. Julius' spying didn't start with the Manhattan Project. An engineer by training, he was already running a substantial industrial espionage ring when DG got sent to help make the bomb. Granted: internal security was pretty leaky at the time, but Julius, Ethel, and David were all Red as could be, had been for years, had more incriminating associations than you can count, and should have triggered some kind of alarm had they been checked at all. Assigning the brother and brother in law of a Russian spy couple to the Manhattan Project is pretty darn-tootin' coincidental.

Coincidences do happen, but does anyone know if there is a backstory on this?

[ifinnegan]

This is way before my time.

We weren’t taught it in school (in the 70’s) and I doubt it’s taught now.

To the extent it was taught, we were taught it was a railroad of innocent idealists by the evil USA that called for blood sacrifices.

But it was all true, they did do what they were executed for. It’s indisputable now.

This is so long ago. Almost romantic, the internecine, clandestine intrigues.

But it was deadly serious on both sides.

I write this all to ask about today. There are the equivalents of the Rosenbergs today.

How will it look 60 years hence (assuming we don’t lose) with respect to how we act now?

[fungoking]

I teach history in high school. I always go out of my way to bring this story up and tell my students that no matter what they hear in college, these guys and Alger Hiss were as guilty as sin.

[AppyPappy]

Rather strange considering that Stalin was an anti-Semite who persecuted Jews.

[husky ed]

Our good old State Dept. That shitehole was full,is and will always be full of commie bastards.

Want to stop 3/4 of the spying in this country. Shut that place down.

Ed

ps, Nixon was right about Hiss and that is one reason the libs hated him.

[TruthWillWin]

From the title thought this article was about a motorhome?