| − | '''David Greenglass''' ([[1922]]- ) was recruited into Soviet espionage by his sister [[Ethel Rosenberg]], who with her husband [[Julius Rosenberg]] were executed for committing conspiracy to commit [[espionage]] in 1953 for providing American nuclear secrets to the [[Soviet Union]]. Greenglass shared an interest in Communism with the Rosenbergs. He married Ruth in 1942, and they joined the [[Young Communist League]] shortly before Greenglass entered the U.S. Army in 1943. A talented machinist at the Army base in Jackson, Mississippi, Greenglass was promoted to sergeant assigned to the secret [[Manhattan Project]], the wartime project to develop the first [[nuclear weapon]]s. He was first stationed at the massive uranium enrichment facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and later worked at the secret [[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos]] laboratory in [[New Mexico]]. He later told how he slept through the first test of the atom bomb and made artificial diamonds at the laboratory. | + | '''David Greenglass''' (1922- ) was recruited into Soviet espionage by his sister [[Ethel Rosenberg]], who with her husband [[Julius Rosenberg]] were executed for committing conspiracy to commit [[espionage]] in 1953 for providing American nuclear secrets to the [[Soviet Union]]. Greenglass shared an interest in Communism with the Rosenbergs. He married Ruth in 1942, and they joined the [[Young Communist League]] shortly before Greenglass entered the U.S. Army in 1943. A talented machinist at the Army base in Jackson, Mississippi, Greenglass was promoted to sergeant assigned to the secret [[Manhattan Project]], the wartime project to develop the first [[nuclear weapon]]s. He was first stationed at the massive uranium enrichment facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and later worked at the secret [[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos]] laboratory in [[New Mexico]]. He later told how he slept through the first test of the atom bomb and made artificial diamonds at the laboratory. |
| | In 1950, UK and US intelligence agencies had discovered that a Los Alamos theoretical physicist, [[Klaus Fuchs]], had also been a spy for the USSR during the war. Through Fuchs' confession, they found that one of his American contacts had been a man from Brooklyn named [[Harry Gold]], who had then passed Fuchs' information on to a Soviet agent, [[Anatoli Yakovlev]], who then would pass it on to his controllers in the USSR. Through Gold, the FBI's trail led to Greenglass and the Rosenbergs, who had also used Gold as a courier. When Fuchs was first captured, Julius gave the Greenglasses $4,000 to finance an escape to Mexico. But they went to the Catskills instead and used the money to seek out legal advice. | | In 1950, UK and US intelligence agencies had discovered that a Los Alamos theoretical physicist, [[Klaus Fuchs]], had also been a spy for the USSR during the war. Through Fuchs' confession, they found that one of his American contacts had been a man from Brooklyn named [[Harry Gold]], who had then passed Fuchs' information on to a Soviet agent, [[Anatoli Yakovlev]], who then would pass it on to his controllers in the USSR. Through Gold, the FBI's trail led to Greenglass and the Rosenbergs, who had also used Gold as a courier. When Fuchs was first captured, Julius gave the Greenglasses $4,000 to finance an escape to Mexico. But they went to the Catskills instead and used the money to seek out legal advice. |