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Boston GlobeGrand jury transcripts released Thursday from the biggest espionage case of the Cold War raise questions about whether Ethel Rosenberg was convicted and executed based on perjured prosecution testimony.
The Rosenbergs were convicted of passing nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union and were executed in 1953. Since then, decrypted Soviet cables have appeared to confirm that Julius Rosenberg was a spy, but doubts have remained about Ethel Rosenberg's role.
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In recent years, David Greenglass recanted his testimony about the typing.
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In fact, in her grand jury testimony, Ruth Greenglass says that she herself wrote out the secrets in longhand. That testimony is consistent with the subsequently decrypted Soviet cables from the time in which the Soviets describe material received from the Rosenbergs as being in longhand.
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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2008/09/11/rosenberg_transcripts_raise_possibility_of_perjury/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news
There's more, it was just hard picking out four paragraphs.
More about the Rosenbergs here
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROSENB.HTM