{"id":104,"date":"2024-01-19T21:15:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T21:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/?page_id=104"},"modified":"2024-02-22T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T13:32:08","slug":"atomic-spies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/course-syllabus\/atomic-spies\/","title":{"rendered":"Atomic Spies"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Using these primary sources to introduce students to the general topic of Cold War espionage, and the specific case of the Rosenbergs, provides a fruitful opportunity to address the interpretive nature of history and the evaluation of evidence, in addition to injecting a compelling drama into our narrative of the Cold War.&#8221; &#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/01\/Frazier-article.pdf\">Paul Frazier on teaching the Rosenberg Case with Venona documents<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rosenberg Family<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_293\" style=\"width: 803px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Rosenberg.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293\" class=\"wp-image-293 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Rosenberg.jpeg\" alt=\"Rosenbergs\" width=\"793\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Rosenberg.jpeg 793w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Rosenberg-300x151.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Rosenberg-768x387.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ethel and Julius Rosenberg<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_294\" style=\"width: 639px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Rosenberg-kids-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-294\" class=\"wp-image-294 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Rosenberg-kids-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"Rosenberg kids\" width=\"629\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Rosenberg-kids-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Rosenberg-kids-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Rosenberg-kids-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Rosenberg-kids-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Rosenberg-kids-2048x1152.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Rosenberg-kids-900x506.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Rosenberg-kids-1280x720.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert and Michael Rosenberg<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Heir to An Execution (2004)<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dEbDDrT2UPs?si=_xL_QNXigtGwGzd4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Student reaction to the Rosenberg family documentary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/2014\/11\/25\/fear-in-the-early-stages-of-the-cold-war\/\">Moyra Schauffler<\/a> (Fall 2014)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/2014\/11\/25\/idealism-in-the-rosenberg-spy-case\/\">Sam Weisman<\/a> (Fall 2014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/famous-trials.com\/rosenberg\">Rosenberg Case (1950-53)<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Cast of Characters<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Julius and Ethel Rosenberg\u00a0 (defendants)<\/li>\n<li>Michael and Robert [Rosenberg] Meeropol (children)<\/li>\n<li>Emanuel Bloch (defense attorney)<\/li>\n<li>Irving Saypol (prosecutor)<\/li>\n<li>Roy Cohn (assistant prosecutor)<\/li>\n<li>Irving Kaufman (trial judge)<\/li>\n<li>David and Ruth Greenglass (defendants \/ relatives)<\/li>\n<li>Morton Sobell (defendant)<\/li>\n<li>Klaus Fuchs (atomic spy)<\/li>\n<li>Harry Gold (courier)<\/li>\n<li>Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas (granted stay of execution)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_299\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Greenglass_bomb_diagram.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-299\" class=\"wp-image-299 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Greenglass_bomb_diagram.png\" alt=\"Bomb drawing\" width=\"600\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Greenglass_bomb_diagram.png 600w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/files\/2024\/02\/Greenglass_bomb_diagram-223x300.png 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of David Greenglass&#8217;s drawings passed along to Soviets, submitted as evidence in 1951 trial<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Timeline<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1943-45 \/\/ Manhattan Project<\/li>\n<li>1949 \/\/ Soviet atomic bomb<\/li>\n<li>1950 \/\/ Arrests begin, Fuchs (Feb) and Rosenberg (July)<\/li>\n<li>1951 \/\/ Guilty verdicts and death sentence for Rosenbergs<\/li>\n<li>1953 \/\/ Rosenbergs executed<\/li>\n<li>1995 \/\/ Venona files released<\/li>\n<li>2001 \/\/ David Greenglass admits that he lied about his sister&#8217;s role<\/li>\n<li>2004 \/\/ Granddaughter Ivy Meeropol&#8217;s documentary<\/li>\n<li>2008 \/\/ Morton Sobell admits that he lied about spying for Soviets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/famous-trials.com\/rosenberg\">Rosenberg Trial website<\/a> (Douglas Linder, UMKC Law School)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using these primary sources to introduce students to the general topic of Cold War espionage, and the specific case of the Rosenbergs, provides a fruitful opportunity to address the interpretive nature of history and the evaluation of evidence, in addition to injecting a compelling drama into our narrative of the Cold War.&#8221; &#8212;Paul Frazier on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-104","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-coldwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}