An examination of the activities that Julius Rosenberg participated in during the years 1943 to 1950 show that he was responsible for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets. This happened while Julius Rosenberg was living in New York City with his wife Ethel, while raising a family. During World War II, Julius Rosenberg began to work as an agent for the Soviet Union and partnered with his brother-in-law, David Greenglass, to help him gather information for the Soviets. Greenglass worked as a machinist at the United States lab that first developed the atomic bomb, located in Los Alamos, New Mexico.6 The development of the atomic bomb was called the Manhattan Project. When the Federal Bureau of Investigation questioned Greenglass, he was the first one to confess the involvement of Julius Rosenberg. “He came up
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He asked me to write it up for him and gave me $200.”7 The National Security Agency operation, launched in 1943, was a group of cryptologists, linguists and mathematicians who uncovered KGB (Soviet Union) espionage activities through a code-breaking program called ‘Venoma’.8 This agency cracked the Soviet diplomatic codes. The KGB were sending messages from New York, Washington and San Francisco through fax. The volume of information being sent by the KGB was so great that it allowed the agency to crack through their codes. Julius Rosenberg was part of the spy ring and was involved with the KGB organization. Julius Rosenberg was given secret code names with one being ‘Liberal.’9 “The KGB paid bonuses of $500 to all members of the Rosenberg spy ring in 1944. It purchased a special camera for Julius Rosenberg to photograph secret documents and was worried about his health, that we are afraid of putting Liberal out of action with overwork."10 Besides being involved in spying activities, Julius Rosenberg spent a lot of time trying to get information on the Atomic bomb. Rosenberg would photograph secret documents and was quite vocal on
He asked me to write it up for him and gave me $200.”7 The National Security Agency operation, launched in 1943, was a group of cryptologists, linguists and mathematicians who uncovered KGB (Soviet Union) espionage activities through a code-breaking program called ‘Venoma’.8 This agency cracked the Soviet diplomatic codes. The KGB were sending messages from New York, Washington and San Francisco through fax. The volume of information being sent by the KGB was so great that it allowed the agency to crack through their codes. Julius Rosenberg was part of the spy ring and was involved with the KGB organization. Julius Rosenberg was given secret code names with one being ‘Liberal.’9 “The KGB paid bonuses of $500 to all members of the Rosenberg spy ring in 1944. It purchased a special camera for Julius Rosenberg to photograph secret documents and was worried about his health, that we are afraid of putting Liberal out of action with overwork."10 Besides being involved in spying activities, Julius Rosenberg spent a lot of time trying to get information on the Atomic bomb. Rosenberg would photograph secret documents and was quite vocal on