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Two weeks after Rosenberg was recruited, an encrypted cable from the [[NKVD]]'s [[New York City|New York]] station to [[Moscow]] Center implicated him and his wife Ethel in "talent-spotting" for the NKVD. This cable stated that "Ruth GREENGLASS" had been "recommended" to the NKVD by her husband's sister, and by that sister's husband:
Two weeks after Rosenberg was recruited, an encrypted cable from the [[NKVD]]'s [[New York City|New York]] station to [[Moscow]] Center implicated him and his wife Ethel in "talent-spotting" for the NKVD. This cable stated that "Ruth GREENGLASS" had been "recommended" to the NKVD by her husband's sister, and by that sister's husband:
{{cquote|LIBERAL recommended the wife of his wife's brother, Ruth GREENGLASS.... She is 21 years old, a TOWNSWOMAN [GOROZhANKA], a GYMNAST [FIZKUL'TURNITsA] since 1942.... LIBERAL and his wife recommend her.... [Ruth] learned that her husband ... is now working at the ENORMOUS [ENORMOZ] plant in SANTA FE, New Mexico.}}
{{cquote|LIBERAL recommended the wife of his wife's brother, Ruth GREENGLASS.... She is 21 years old, a TOWNSWOMAN [GOROZhANKA], a GYMNAST [FIZKUL'TURNITsA] since 1942.... LIBERAL and his wife recommend her.... [Ruth] learned that her husband ... is now working at the ENORMOUS [ENORMOZ] plant in SANTA FE, New Mexico.}}
Notes by U.S. [[Signals Intelligence Service]] cryptographers (who partially decrypted this cable in the [[Venona project]]) identify the code-names LIBERAL as "Julius ROSENBERG," GOROZhANKA as "American Citizen," FIZKUL'TURNITsA as "Probably a Member of the Young Communist League," and ENORMOZ as "Atomic Energy Project."<ref>[http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/21sep_recruitment_by_rosenbergs.pdf Venona 1340 New York to Moscow 21 September 1944] National Security Agency</ref>
Notes by U.S. [[Signals Intelligence Service]] cryptographers (who partially decrypted this cable in the [[Venona project]]) identify the code-names LIBERAL as "Julius ROSENBERG," GOROZhANKA as "American Citizen," FIZKUL'TURNITsA as "Probably a Member of the Young Communist League," and [[ENORMOZ]] as "Atomic Energy Project."<ref>[http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/21sep_recruitment_by_rosenbergs.pdf Venona 1340 New York to Moscow 21 September 1944] National Security Agency</ref>
The following month, according Ruth Greenglass's 1950 grand jury testimony, made public in 2008,<ref>Press Release: [https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2008/nr08-144.html National Archives to Open Rosenberg Grand Jury Transcripts], National Archives and Records Administration, September 9, 2008</ref> Julius Rosenberg recruited her, and urged her to recruit her husband (Ethel's brother, [[David Greenglass]]), into a conspiracy to engage in atomic espionage for the Soviet Union:
The following month, according Ruth Greenglass's 1950 grand jury testimony, made public in 2008,<ref>Press Release: [https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2008/nr08-144.html National Archives to Open Rosenberg Grand Jury Transcripts], National Archives and Records Administration, September 9, 2008</ref> Julius Rosenberg recruited her, and urged her to recruit her husband (Ethel's brother, [[David Greenglass]]), into a conspiracy to engage in atomic espionage for the Soviet Union: