Julius And Ethel Rosenberg's Co-Defendant Morton Sobell Finally Admits That He And Julius Were Spies For Stalin

More conclusive evidence has emerged to dispell the liberal myth that the Rosenbergs, executed for espionage in 1953, were innocent. This evidence is not even necessary as Julius Rosenberg appears in secret cables between the Soviet Union and their agents within the United States that were decoded by American intelligence. The cables were released by the U.S. government in the mid-1990's. The top secret decryption program was known as Venona and it has proven that the government was in fact riddled with Communist spies during and after the Second World War. In fact, Julius Rosenberg's code name in the cables was "Liberal." What makes this new piece of evidence against the Rosenbergs particulary astounding is the source. Martin Sobell was the co-defendant of the Rosenbergs and was sentence to thirty years in prison for his espionage. He spent time in Alcatraz and was released in 1969. After decades of denying that he was a Communist spy, in his old age he has finally confessed to the truth.

The New York Times reported "Mr. Sobell’s confession, in an interview last week with The New York Times, that he and Julius stole nonatomic military and industrial secrets." With this confession, even the two sons of the Rosenbergs are admitting that it is conclusive that their father was involved in an espionage conspiracy. The Rosenberg case is closed. This is just another example of how the predominant liberal myths concerning the "Red Scare" of the 1950's continue to be shattered.

Here is an excerpt from a Los Angeles Times opinion piece on this startling confession:

"Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed 55 years ago, on June 19, 1953. But last week, they were back in the headlines when Morton Sobell, the co-defendant in their famous espionage trial, finally admitted that he and his friend, Julius, had both been Soviet agents.
It was a stunning admission; Sobell, now 91 years old, had adamantly maintained his innocence for more than half a century. After his comments were published, even the Rosenbergs’ children, Robert and Michael Meeropol, were left with little hope to hang on to — and this week, in comments unlike any they’ve made previously, the brothers acknowledged having reached the difficult conclusion that their father was, indeed, a spy. 'I don’t have any reason to doubt Morty,' Michael Meeropol told Sam Roberts of the New York Times.
With these latest events, the end has arrived for the legions of the American left wing that have argued relentlessly for more than half a century that the Rosenbergs were victims, framed by a hostile, fear-mongering U.S. government. Since the couple’s trial, the left has portrayed them as martyrs for civil liberties, righteous dissenters whose chief crime was to express their constitutionally protected political beliefs. In the end, the left has argued, the two communists were put to death not for spying but for their unpopular opinions, at a time when the Truman and Eisenhower administrations were seeking to stem opposition to their anti-Soviet foreign policy during the Cold War."

This LA times article was written by Ronald Radosh, an emeritus professor of history at City University of New York and an adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, as well as the coauthor of "The Rosenberg File." If you want to read the article in its entirety, and it is worth a read, here is the link: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-radosh17-2008sep17,0,490961.story


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