New York Times: Figure in Rosenberg Case Admits Spying for Soviets (HT: Guitar Priest)
Through it all, he maintained his innocence.
But on Thursday, Mr. Sobell, 91, dramatically reversed himself, shedding new light on a case that still fans smoldering political passions. In an interview, he admitted for the first time that he had been a Soviet spy.
And he implicated his fellow defendant Julius Rosenberg, in a conspiracy that delivered to the Soviets classified military and industrial information and what the American government described as the secret to the atomic bomb. …
In high school, I attended a presentation by Alger Hiss at the University of Kansas with my parents. Hiss was a major target of the McCarthy hearings, and it turns out that Hiss likely was a spy. Soviet documents released in recent years reveal spies in high places. That McCarthy was an egomaniac and a demagogue doesn't change that. This should serve as a reminder that it isn't as simple as good guys and bad guys or oppressors and victims in many of these complex issues.
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