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	Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI History - Famous Cases
		Morton Sobell was born the son of Russian-born immigrants on April 11, 1917, in New York City.
		Following Morton Sobell's August 18, 1950, arrest by FBI Agents in Laredo, Texas, he was arraigned before the U.S. Commissioner, Southern District of Texas, waived removal to New York, and was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshal on August 23, 1950.
		Morton Sobell applied for a writ of habeas corpus on Febrary 5, 1951, claiming the indictment of January 31, 1951, was vague and that his incrimination was a violation of his constitutional rights.
	www.fbi.gov /libref/historic/famcases/atom/atom.htm (11043 words)

	Biography of Morton Sobell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Morton Sobell was a friend of the Rosenbergs and a co-defendant in their trial.
		Sobell tried to find passage for himself and his family from Mexico to Europe, but without proper passports he was not successful.
		Sobell maintains his innocence to this day, claiming that he fled to Mexico because he had lied about his membership in the Communist Party, and denying any involvement in a spy ring.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROS_BSOB.HTM (227 words)

	United States v Rosenberg
		To determine whether Morton Sobell was a member of the conspiracy you are only to consider the testimony of Max Elitcher, William Danziger and the testimony relating to the defendant Sobell's alleged attempt to flee the country.
		Sobell is confusing the particular part each conspirator played in the espionage activities with the end-all purpose of all the conspirators- the aiding of Russia by sending to it any and all kinds of secret information.
		Sobell's counsel argued that on the basis of the indictment and information obtained from an unsuccessful attempt to get a more enlightening bill of particulars, it was impossible for Sobell to ask for a severance earlier on these grounds.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/FTRIALS/Rosenb/ROS_CT1.HTM (12467 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Physical science \| Helen Sobell
		Morton Sobell was a co-defendant with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 for espionage.
		Helen Sobell always claimed that the evidence against her husband was falsified and that his 30-year sentence was motivated by cold war passions and also by a wish to pressure him into ratting on other Soviet agents, which he never did.
		At the trial, Morton Sobell took the Fifth Amendment, meaning that he took advantage of the protection against self-incrimination granted under that amendment to the US constitution by refusing to give evidence.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/physicalscience/story/0,9836,690315,00.html (900 words)

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		This liberalization was calculated to appeal to Morton Sobell's obviously deep attachment to his family and scientific work.
		Morton Sobell had elected to remain at the Federal House of Detention, so that he might be available for consultation on his appeals.
		Sobell that the authorship of these letters lay at the door of the most bigoted elements in American life and government.
	www.columbia.edu /library/rosenberg/testsuite/Page051.txt (523 words)

	Monthly Review: Refusing to Cooperate - Review
		After his conviction, Morton Sobell was banished to Alcatraz, one of the most notorious prisons in the country.
		The FBI files demonstrate clearly the agency's persistent assumption that Morton's wife controlled him, and that she was the one who urged him to remain defiant.
		Although the prosecution presented absolutely no proof that Sobell had any connection with atomic bomb research, he was conjoined as a co-defendant with the Rosenbergs to give the impression that an extensive spy ring had been in operation.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1132/is_4_53/ai_78413141 (1398 words)

	Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
		Morton Sobell attended the Community College of New York along with Julius Rosenberg and another man by the name of Max Elichter.
		The trial of the Rosenbergs and Morton Sobell began on March 6, 1951.
		The case against Morton Sobell was based largely on accusations made by former college friend Max Elichter.
	www.pages.drexel.edu /~ina22/301/301ppr-rosenbergs.htm (1485 words)

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		The Rosenbergs were executed, Sobell was imprisoned, but their courage and the campaign in their behalf guarantted, for a period at least, that there could be only one--and only one--Rosenberg-Sobell Trial.
		Sobell foil these headlines by returning to the United States as he planned, it was arranged with Mexican underworld elements that he be beaten, kidnapped and brought over the Texas border in a blaze of newspaper print.
		Sobell's imprisonment was marked by anxious and unre- lenting attempts to compel him to testify in the case being prepared against the Rosenbergs.
	www.columbia.edu /library/rosenberg/testsuite/Page050.txt (408 words)

	Helen Sobell, wife of Morton Sobell
		Sobell could be involved with the Soviets was debunked by Rosenberg case critics at the time, but was later confirmed by a fortuitous find of microfilm in an old wallet of Abel's.
		Sobell had made it her life's work to keep the Rosenberg case alive even after Julius and Ethel had been electrocuted.
		Sobell had confided to de los Rios that he was in flight from the United States because he was dodging military service.
	www.cicentre.com /Documents/DOC_Sobell.htm (1244 words)

	Reopen The Rosenberg Case
		Morton Sobell was sentenced to 30 years in prison, five of which he served in Alcatraz.
		Morton Sobell is currently involved as a civil liberty activist and maintains his innocence to this day.
		Irving Saypol was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the Chief Prosecutor of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell.
	www.rosenbergtrial.org /plyrstxt.html (5232 words)

	Decrypting Cold War Espionage Codes
		(Mr Sobell was convicted with Ethel and Julius Rosenberg of "conspiracy to commit espionage" in 1951 (a conviction that Mr.
		He said he is one of the first to critique the easy-to-spot FBI bias of the Venona-decrypt interpretations and that the lack of other such critiques is peculiar.
		Sobell agreed; and said The New York Times had refused to publish a similar letter five weeks ago.
	ftp.die.net /mirror/cryptome/nsa-sobell.htm (644 words)

	Democracy Now Transcript Archives
		Juan Gonzalez:: And of course Morton Sobell, as you mentioned in your own book about the times, you were a former member of the Communist Party with Julius, you had gone toÊ attended City College together, so clearly the government was very interested in tying to you to some sort of illegal activity.
		Morton Sobell: Well, not only me but other members of the graduating glass who would also be members of the Communist Party.
		Morton Sobell: But I have evidence that certain files were written one way before Julius was arrested and after he was arrested they changed it to implicate him.
	www.democracynow.org /transcripts/rosenberg.shtml (5193 words)

	Accuracy In Media - Weekly Column - DIE HARD LEFTISTS: FAITH OUTLIVES REALITY
		Sobell was especially vociferous in denouncing the documentary evidence that Soviet spy masters unwittingly supplied to American codebreakers and the FBI.
		Referring to Elitcher, Morton Sobell asked, scorn dripping from his voice, “I’d love to know who did the initial identification.” He got an answer from retired FBI agent Robert Lamphere, who headed espionage investigations during the 1940s.
		Marshall Perlin, attorney for the Rosenbergs, Sobell, and the Rosenberg sons argued on a panel that the Venona papers are not authentic, but “created files” derived from FBI assumptions and misinformation.
	www.aim.org /publications/weekly_column/1996/10/10.html (1014 words)

	Max Elitcher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Max Elitcher Because of his close friendship with Morton Sobell and Julius Rosenberg, as well as his damaging testimony, Max Elitcher was the most injurious prosecution witness in the Rosenberg case.
		Following graduation, where Elitcher received a degree in engineering, he and Sobell moved to Washington to become junior engineers at the Navy Bureau of Ordnance.
		Elitcher testified that he accompanied Sobell to Catherine Slip in New York, where Sobell passed film to Julius Rosenberg.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Max_Elitcher (208 words)

	The Trial
		The government's case against Morton Sobell was based largely on the testimony of Max Elichter, who testified that he had accompanied Sobell when a can of microfilm was delivered to Julius Rosenberg.
		Sobell and Elichter were fellow students at CCNY with Rosenberg.
		The facts that Sobell had fled to Mexico and had been forcibly returned to the United States by the FBI, that he had used various aliases while in Mexico, and that he had used Elichter as a "mail-drop" while in Mexico was damaging to Sobell's defense.
	www.dark-horse.co.uk /rosen/rosentrial.htm (2419 words)

	Bernice Schrank\| Reading the Rosenbergs After Venona\| Labour/Le Travail, 49\| The History Cooperative
		Morton Sobell, a former classmate of Julius’, was also arrested and charged with being part of the Rosenberg spy network.
		Sobell’s impressions of the proceedings and their significance in relation to his conviction are recorded on the H-DIPLO web site.
		Sobell argues for this interpretation, stating that "it is not that Venona led the CIA to Julius Rosenberg, as claimed, but it was Greenglass that led the FBI to conclude that Antenna-Liberal was Rosenberg." Morton Sobell, "Sobell on ‘Venona and the Rosenbergs’," 13 ttp://www2.h-net.mus.edu/~diplo/Sobell.htm (13 December 2001).
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/llt/49/07schran.html (8965 words)

	Jew Watch - Jewish Criminals and Spies - Morton Sobell Anti-American Jewish-Zionist-Soviet Spy
		This article appeared freely on the Internet on January 20, 2006 http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROS_TELI.HTM and is archived here only for scholarship, research, education, and personal use by those previously requesting it in accordance with the "fair use" provision in Title 17 Section 107 of the copyright law.
		Elitcher was a friend of Martin Sobell whom Julius Rosenberg had tried to recruit (and probably did, though Elitcher claimed otherwise) as a member of his spy ring.
		Elitcher expressed his concern about being followed to Sobell when he reached his hom, who became agitated and asked him to leave, but then relented and allowed him to stay.
	jewwatch.com /jew-criminalsandspies-sobell.html (2759 words)

	HART'S WAR - Espionage Profiles
		On April 5, 1951, Judge Kaufman pronounced sentence on Julius Rosenberg, Ethel Rosenberg, and Morton Sobell.
		Hoover's biographer suggests that the Director now regretted the strategy of using Ethel as a "lever" to induce Julius to confess, and thought that it would be terrible public relations to execute a mother of two young children.
		Morton Sobell received a sentence of thirty years in prison, with the judge's recommendation that he serve the full term.
	www.courttv.com /archive/harts_war/rosenberg/rosenberg_5.html (609 words)

	Stephen Roth Institute: Antisemitism and Racism
		After Sobell failed to obtain transit documents to Europe, he was kidnapped by a band of Mexicans in Mexico City, who took him on an 800-mile forced journey to the Texas border, where they handed him over to the FBI.
		On 6 March 1951, the trial of Morton Sobell and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, on the charge of espionage, opened in New York.
		Prominent members of this group were the Rosenberg children, Morton Sobell’s wife, the Blochs, the writer and film producer David Alman, the writers Yuri Suhl and Joseph Brainin, the anthropologist Gene Weltfish, Zionist activist Ben Z. Goldberg and Guardian reporter William Reuben.
	www.tau.ac.il /Anti-Semitism/asw2002-3/gutfeld.htm (9004 words)

	Real History Archives Rosenberg Collection: Perlin Testimony 1982 House Judiciary Committee
		Upon receipt of the material, the evidence was shown to leading atomic scientists to render their opinion as to the meaning or worth of the testimony and the sketch said to contain the secret of the atomic bomb.
		The sum and substance of the opinion of this eminent body of scientists was that the drawing and sketch was an ignorant, crude, childlike miscomprehension of the nature, constituents and the mechanisms of the atomic bomb.
		The totality of evidence establishes that the Rosenbergs were implicated and a verdict of guilty was obtained on the basis of false, perjured testimony given with the knowledge, consent and initiative of the prosecution.
	www.webcom.com /~lpease/collections/disputes/r-perlin.htm (3488 words)

	Government Views of The Rosenberg Spy Case
		Sobell had always maintained his innocence and his email questioned the actions of the U.S. government both at the time of his arrest and trial and afterwards.
		Sobell has always maintained that he was innocent of espionage and that he had fled to Mexico because he was afraid of being persecuted because of his membership in the Communist Party.
		Sobell has always maintained his innocence and his email questioned the actions of the U.S. government both at the time of his arrest and trial and afterwards.
	www.ccny.cuny.edu /library/Divisions/Government/rosenbergs.html (3110 words)

	Modern John Brown: Herbert Aptheker
		As I recall, RandM make case for Morton Sobell taking trips to Norfolk, VA where Rudi Abel (not sure if that is correct name) ostensibly ran spying operation out of shipbuilding firm.
		I read somewhere a few years ago that Morton Sobell was planning to update his _On Doing Time_ to take VENONA materials into account but I've seen no reference to it since (is he still alive?).
		Sobell has claimed that number of RandM's footnotes are phony.
	mailman.lbo-talk.org /2000/2000-October/018137.html (409 words)

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		Morton Sobell and Julius Rosenberg were students attending CCNY studying engineering.
		In the middle of August the Sobells were kidnapped by Mexican thugs and delivered to U. authorities at the border where the FBI arrested him for conspiring with Julius Rosenberg to violate the espionage laws.
		Elitcher then testified that in the summer of 1948, he accompanied Sobell to Catherine Slip in Manhattan, where he was to deliver something (it seemed to be a 35 millimeter film can) to Julius Rosenberg.
	www.rosenbergtrial.org /plyrstxt1.html (3816 words)

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		The Committee to Free Morton Sobell arose from the National Committee to Secure Justice for Morton Sobell, a separate organizations from the National Committee to secure Justice in the Rosenberg-Sobell Case.
		The copies of the legal briefs in this series are petitions and appeals from Morton Sobell to the Supreme Court of the United States and the United States District Court Southern District of New York dating form 1963 to 1967.
		The Los Angeles Sobell Committee aka the Los Angeles Committee to Secure Justice for Morton Sobell was located at 468 N. Western Avenue and later at 462 N. Western Avenue.
	www.oac.cdlib.org /view/mets/2r/tf6b69n82r.mets.xml (2448 words)

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		In- conjunction with -three other prgm- inent sdientists, two IT professors, Charles D. Coryell, cheistrty, -and Bernard T. Field, physics, are backing Morton Sobell in his- attempt -to have his 1951 conviction reviewed by the Suipreme Court.'- He was convicted in- the - sensa- tional Rosenburg case for conspiring to spy for the Russians.
		Sobell, allegedly a member of the spy ring, was convicted for such and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
		It is important that it not in the end deprive him of his equal protection." The scientists in their brief raised the question of a duality existing in this case, whether a discrepancy existed between the actual scientific evidence and the way the prosecution presented such evidence in court.
	www-tech.mit.edu /archives/VOL_088/TECH_V088_S0025_P015.txt (765 words)

	mocktrial.html
		Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and Morton Sobell were on trial in the United States, because they were to have allegedly committed acts of treason, espionage, and conspiracy against the United States government.
		The trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell was extremely significant to the United States Government during the years surrounding 1951.
		The three individuals were officially charged with, "conspiracy to commit espionage during wartime." World War II had recently concluded in 1945, and the United States Government, and the general public were very sensitive toward loyalty to the United States.
	www.fultonschools.org /teacher/gregory/mocktrial.html (410 words)

	Rosenberg Trial - Manhattan Project Spy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Less than a week later, another college friend, Morton Sobell, boarded a plane with his family at La Guardia Airport with tickets for Mexico City.
		Elitcher also described an incident in 1948 when he, along with his friend Morton Sobell, had taken a midnight ride to a deserted waterfront street in New York City in order that Sobell might bring a 35-mm film can to Rosenberg's apartment.
		Elitcher's story provided the basis for a warrant to arrest Morton Sobell, who the FBI knew to still be in Mexico.
	www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org /SPY/ROSENBERG/rosenberg_trial.htm (3058 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It too often happens that our program of work and the energies that arise in a community of the poor like ours, keeps us from participating in all the meetings that are being held by groups to which we wish to give our support.
		Sobell was illegally convicted on the same charge.
		Sobell did not seem to have any difficulty in raising the money to visit her husband, and that as for the children visiting him, he questioned whether the children should visit such a father, convicted traitor as he was.
	www.catholicworker.org /dorothyday/reprint.cfm?TextID=840 (2821 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. Miscellaneous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Background Of Principal Subjects Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Julius Rosenberg was born on May 12, 1918, in New York City, the son of immigrants, both of whom were born in Russia.
		Morton Sobell Morton Sobell was born the son of Russian-born immigrants on April 11, 1917, in New York City.
		Sobell was employed during the summers of 1934 through 1938 as a maintenance man at Camp Unity, Wingdale, New York, reportedly a Communist- controlled camp.
	www.webroots.org /library/usamisc/fbicase6.html (18091 words)

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