At 12:52 AM 7/31/95 -0700, rick hoselton wrote:
Different cases - the Walkers gave away information on how the Yankees were stealing Russian secrets, which the Russians patched up by encrypting.
Really? Do you have a reference for this? I am interested.
No refs, this is just memory of the news. There was an undersea cable north of Siberia somewhere that carried a lot of unencrypted military traffic, which US Submarines were eavesdropping on. I think Walker was the one who leaked it, and they started encrypting. Refs on the Walkers should be easy to find in the library; there were a couple of books.
The most current information on the Rosenbergs, gotten from decrypted Soviet communications and declassified US and ex-Soviet files, indicates that Ethel Rosenberg was probably innocent of spying, and Julius was spying but didn't give away any useful atomic secrets, and that the FBI probably knew at the time they had Ethel killed that she was innocent.
WOW! Had them killed? They WERE tried and convicted, you know.
Yes, with government-provided evidence, and with the government withholding inconvenient evidence. There was a story on KPFA radio in the last week or so covering an article on the Rosenbergs in some lefty magazine, probably The Nation, by a couple who have been strong supporters of them for years, and are now saying that "sorry, friends, it looks like Julius _was_ spying, though not atomically". #--- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts@ix.netcom.com # Phone +1-510-247-0664 Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 #--- # Export PGP three lines a time --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/ M0V]N9W)E<W,@<VAA;&P@;6%K92!N;R!L87<@+BXN(&%B<FED9VEN9R!T:&4@ M9G)E961O;2!O9B!S<&5E8V@L(&]R(&]F('1H92!P<F5S<SL-"F]R('1H92!R M:6=H="!O9B!T:&4@<&5O<&QE('!E86-E86)L>2!T;R!A<W-E;6)L92P@( T*