The U.S. government used her as a hostage and then killed her

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Poll question: The U.S. government used her as a hostage and then killed her

when it did not get what it wanted

Said Michael Meeropol - their son - in the poignant documentary on HBO about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

I think that by now it is clear that it was Ethel's brother David Greenglass who worked at Los Alamos who gave the info to the Soviet Union. But he was offered a plea - 10 years in jail - for naming names, and he gave Julius, who was a lower pawn in the web. When Julius would not cooperate, they arrested his wife and when neither would name names, they were both fried.

There was a short image of a "Spy Museum" in D.C. - I think - where both are still depicted as the ones who sold the atom bomb to the Soviet. I think that by now it is acceptable that it was Claus Fuchs who did this and that what Julius provided was just a confirmation of what they already had.

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1. Sorry, did not want to poll anyone. Don't know how I got there n/t