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  Biographies of Participants in the Rosenbergs Trial
David Greenglass, known as "Doovey" to his older sister Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg, was born in 1922.
Greenglass was not aware that the purpose of the Manhattan Project was to develop the atomic bomb until his wife told him; she had been informed by Julius Rosenberg.
Greenglass decided to be a prosecution witness against his sister and his brother-in-law in exchange for immunity for his wife Ruth, so that she might remain with their two children.
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  David Greenglass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After Julius Rosenberg told Ruth Greenglass that the Manhattan Project was seeking to produce the first atom bomb, David Greenglass began to pass nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union via Julius from November 1944 until he left the military in 1946.
Greenglass was arrested by the FBI for espionage in July 1950 and quickly implicated his brother-in-law.
Greenglass was sentenced to 15 years in prison, served 10 years, and later reunited with his wife.
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 Excerpts from the Rosenbergs Trial -- David Greenglass
Greenglass then testified that Julius bragged as the typing was in progress that he had stolen a proximity fuse when working at Emerson Radio.
GREENGLASS: I did my work as a soldier and produced what I had to produce, and there was no argument about my work, and since the information went to a supposed ally at the time, I had no qualms or doubts that I deserved the honorable discharge.
Greenglass had testified that he had been given $500 at one time by Rosenberg, and that the currency was all $20 bills.
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 Ruth Greenglass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ruth Printz was born in 1925 in New York City, and grew up in the same neighborhood as her future husband, David Greenglass.
David was drafted in 1943, and Ruth tried to see him as much as possible even after he had been inducted into the Army.
When the FBI questioned David about suspected espionage activities, he agreed to confess and to be a witness against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in exchange for immunity for Ruth so that she could remain at home with their two children.
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 NOVA Online | Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies | Read Venona Intercepts: September 21, 1944
Ultimately, it was Ruth and David Greenglass who implicated the Rosenbergs, who became the only persons put to death for espionage in the U.S. during the Cold War.
During the war, David was drafted and became a skilled machinist in an Army ordnance unit.
David Greenglass was sentenced to 15 years in prison, while his wife escaped prosecution.
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 CBS News | 60 Minutes II: The Traitor | July 15, 2003 10:59:56   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Greenglass made his choice when America was at war with communists in Korea, and in fear of the Soviet Union, which had recently tested its own atomic bomb.
Greenglass was a draftsman and a tinkerer, his wife was a wife and mother.
Greenglass told the FBI that he gave the Russians sketches and details on the device used to trigger a nuclear blast.
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 David Greenglass - Manhattan Project Spy - SED Los Alamos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg and her brother David Greenglass, in a photo taken either during or immediately after the end of World War II.
Greenglass, who was an Army machinist and Communist Party member working at the government’s nuclear weapons facility in Los Alamos, N.M., spent 10 years in prison for his part in plot.
Greenglass’ most damning admission to Roberts is that he lied about certain details of the plot in order to protect his wife, Ruth.
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 WebRoots Library U.S. Miscellaneous   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
David Greenglass reportedly had come under the influence of his sister when he was about 12 years old and when the 19-year-old Ethel was being courted by Julius Rosenberg.
David Greenglass had admitted that he was indoctrinated with Communist principles in his youth by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and was a member of the Young Communist League in New York from 1936 to 1938.
Greenglass would mention that the statue was beautiful and the man would answer, "There are much more beautiful ones in Paris." The man would then give David the means of transportation to Czechoslovakia, where upon arrival he was to write to the Soviet Ambassador advising him of his presence.
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 Commentary Magazine - Invitation to an Inquest, by Walter & Miriam Schneir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
...David Greenglass said that he expected to be in New York on furlough around Christmas, and that if Gold wished to get in touch with him then, he could call his brother-in-law, Julius, whose telephone number David produced...
...David Greenglass, a machinist, was the brother of Ethel Rosenberg...
...David Greenglass hated his sister, and he and his wife were in a frenzy over the possibility that they might be punished for the theft of uranium, and very likely in a frenzy over other unknown troubles as well...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V41I1P71-1.htm   (4094 words)

  
 David Greenglass information - Search.com
After Julius Rosenberg told Ruth Greenglass that the Manhattan Project was seeking to produce the first atom bomb, David Greenglass began to pass nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union via Julius from November 1944 until he left the military in 1946.
Greenglass was arrested by the FBI for espionage in June 1950 and quickly implicated his brother-in-law and his (brother-in-law's) wife.
Greenglass also testified that Rosenberg had stolen and given to the Russians a proximity fuze and information about a speculative space platform which would sit between the Earth and the Moon.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Case at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Greenglass served prison time, and when he was released, he changed his name and has been in hiding, essentially, ever since.
David Greenglass and his wife Ruth passed information; that was never in question.
David Greenglass is the founder of the "I had nothing to do with that" movement.
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 JURIST - The Rosenbergs Trial
Greenglass would suggest that the decision to drop out of the Party was a necessary consequence of the Rosenberg's decision to undertake espionage work for the Soviet Union.
Greenglass told the FBI that Rosenberg asked his wife, Ruth, to talk with him in Albuquerque to see if he might be willing to provide descriptions of Manhattan Project research.
David's decision to reject his brother-in-law's advice was due largely to the condition of his wife, Ruth, who was six months pregnant and still recovering being critically burned in an apartment fire.
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 Rosenberg Case
The Greenglasses swore that David provided one set of sketches and an accompanying theoretical description of the bomb to Julius Rosenberg in 1945, and that Ethel was present and typed the notes of their meeting.
In return for the Greenglass' cooperation, Ruth Greenglass, who swore she helped steal what the prosecution called "the most important scientific secret ever known to mankind," was never even indicted.
David also testified that he gave another set of sketches to Harry Gold who used the recognition signal "Julius sent me" to identify himself to David when they met.
www.rfc.org /case.htm   (772 words)

  
 December 2001: New Rosenberg Book Repeats old Lies
The chief witness against them, the brother of Ethel Rosenberg, David Greenglass, now 79, has recently admitted that he lied when he testified that Ethel was present at the time (he alleges) he gave Julius a so-called sketch of the cross-section of the bomb.
Eight months later, Greenglass changed his version of the fabricated meeting and testified that Ethel was present when he delivered the so-called atomic bomb secrets and that she typed up the notes he had brought.
David Greenglass is a liar, this time by his own admission and for financial gain.
www.socialistaction.org /news/200112/book.html   (423 words)

  
 David Greenglass
, the brother of Ethel Greenglass, was born in New York in 1922.
In July, 1950, Greenglass was arrested by the FBI and accused of spying for the Soviet Union.
Greenglass claimed that Rosenberg had given atom bomb secrets that he in turn passed to Harry Gold, a convicted Soviet spy.
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 FrontPage magazine.com :: The Untrue Believer by Ronald Radosh
Greenglass, by contrast, had been sucked into espionage by his brother-in-law, whom he admired and was trying hard to please.
For the first time, we learn that David Greenglass gave his brother-in-law not only primitive sketches of the implosion device, which he drew up from what he learned working at the Los Alamos machine shop, but later actually stole the detonator switch to be used on the atomic bomb.
Greenglass must therefore have been very familiar with their shape." Roberts produces a previously unknown letter from Albert Einstein to the left-wing journalist William Reuben, who was the first person to wage a campaign on the Rosenbergs' behalf.
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 AMERICAN REFERENCE LIBRARY FOOTNOTES
Harry Gold and Ruth Greenglass were named in the indictment as conspirators but not as defendants, and a severance for trial purposes was granted as to David Greenglass, who pleaded guilty, and as to Anatoli Yakolev.
David delivered to Gold information about personnel in the project who might be recruited for espionage, and another sketch of the lens mold, showing the basic principles of implosion used in the bomb construction.
Julius confided to David that he was helping the Russians subsidize American students, that he had contacts in New York and Ohio, and supplied information for siphoning to Russia, that he transmitted information to Russia on microfilm equipment, and that he received rewards for his services from the Russians in money and gifts.
www.bannerofliberty.com /OSNotes/2-22-2001.1.html   (1316 words)

  
 The Brother : The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Case
As one of the 10,000 `spectators' at the funeral of the Rosenbergs, Roberts' interest in their case was rekindled in the 1980s when he decided to track down David Greenglass, Ethel's younger brother, whose crucial, though flawed, testimony in the Rosenberg trial helped send his sister and brother-in-law to the electric chair.
Greenglass' full confession was conditional, however, on Ruth not being indicted, even though Roberts shows she was more culpable than her sister-in-law, Ethel.
Greenglass has since claimed he does not recall this event, arguing he was coached at the time by his wife, Ruth, to corroborate her story.
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Greenglass testified that it was he who turned over most of these materials to the Rosenbergs because of pressure.
David worked for the US army and for a time in a place where there was work on atomic energy.
There are several hypotheses as to why David Greenglass may have falsely accused his sister's family in their actions.
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 Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: The Brother: the Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Of all the places David might have imagined himself at the age of thirty-one, having grown up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and aspired to be an engineer, a maximum-security federal prison in the middle of Pennsylvania was just about the most improbable.
No one could say truthfully that David was indifferent to the fate of the Rosenbergs, but on the Friday of their deaths he feared more for his own life.
David even overslept on July 16, 1945, as many of his colleagues at the Los Alamos laboratory slipped away before sunup to witness the debut at Alamogordo of the atomic bomb-the bomb he was later charged with stealing for the Soviet Union.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0375500138/reviews   (1739 words)

  
 Real History Archives Rosenberg Collection: Rosenberg/Sobell Committee Request
Greenglass said she had known him since he was 10 years old and that he "would say things were so even if they were not".
C- David Greenglass writes in a handwritten statement that he informed the F.B.I. that his wife was not present during the visit by Gold.
H- Greenglass testified for the prosecution that a console table in the home of the Rosenbergs was an elaborate piece of furniture given to the Rosenbergs by the Russians and hollowed out for micro-film development..
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 Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI History - Famous Cases
Interrogation of Greenglass and his wife, Ruth, resulted in admissions of espionage activity under the instructions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, brother-in -law and sister, respectively, of David Greenglass.
David Greenglass, younger brother of Ethel Rosenberg, was born on March 3, 1922, in New York, where he attended public schools.
Greenglass told Gold that the visit was a surprise and that it would take several hours to prepare the A-bomb material.
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 60 minutes 2
Greenglass says that he didn't really understand the danger, because “I didn’t think the Russians were an enemy." His career in espionage came to an end soon after the war ended.
Prosecutors argued that this typing proved she was an active participant in the spy ring.** After the trial, they admitted that without the typing testimony, they could never have convinced the jury that Ethel was anything more than the wife of a spy.
According to Greenglass' testimony at the trial, he did not know what the purpose of the Manhattan Project was.
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 Amazon.com: The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Greenglass, a member of the Communist Party, somehow got assigned to work on the Manhattan Project after being drafted in 1943.
It is certainly controversial that Greenglass is getting paid for his participation in interviews, but the new information seems worth it.
Greenglass had no say in what was going to be written in the book, and could not tell what was to be in it until it was printed; the picture Roberts paints is far from flattering.
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 Studies in Intelligence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Greenglass had told the Bureau that Julius had mentioned that one of his classmates at the City College of New York (CCNY), Joel Barr, also was spying for the Soviets.
David Greenglass joined the business after his discharge from the army in 1946, but the venture failed a few years later.
David Greenglass was released from prison in November 1960, Harry Gold in May 1966, and Sobell in January 1969.
www.cia.gov /csi/studies/vol46no4/article09.html   (5332 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Brother: the Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
One man doomed the Rosenbergs: David Greenglass, Ethel Rosenberg's brother, the young army sergeant who spied for the Soviets at Los Alamos during World War II and whose...
Greenglass seems to be in current money difficulties and may be twisting events of long ago to suit his current needs.
Greenglass appears to be operating under the assumption that Roberts will give him a favorable portrayal.
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 Infamous spy Ethel Rosenberg's brother admits lying under oath to save himself
Greenglass, Ethel's younger brother, admits in the book that he, too, was a spy who gave the Soviets information about atomic research and a detonator invented by another scientist.
In court, Greenglass delivered what would be the most incriminating testimony against Ethel Rosenberg that she transcribed his spy notes destined for Moscow on a portable Remington typewriter.
Should he ever encounter the pair's two sons, Greenglass says, he would tell them he was "sorry that your parents are dead," but would not apologize for his part in their execution.
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