Jews in Cold War Espionage Transcripts Unsealed

Overcoming for Archive and Historical Associations Results in the Discharge of New Information About Rosenbergs Spy Case

Today, in effect to a petition filed by the National Deposit Archive and several historical associations, the Inhabitant Archives and Records Administration (NARA) released the in days gone by secret grand jury transcripts of eight witnesses tied up to Cold War espionage prosecutions. The as good as 300 pages of transcripts from the Brothman/Moskowitz ostentatious jury reveal important new details about the asseveration of Elizabeth Bentley, the so-called “Red Spy Prima donna,” and Harry Gold, who led authorities to David Greenglass and the Rosenbergs. In summation, NARA released the testimonies of Vivian Glassman, Edith Levitov, and Unreserved Wilentz from the Rosenberg grand jury.

“The set free of these additional grand jury records marks an notable victory for historians, archivists, and the American people,” stated Meredith Fuchs, the Country-wide Security Archive’s General Instruction. “It adds to the historical best performance on the most important espionage trial in American portrayal, which was a defining moment of the Cold War, and helps us well-advised understand how our society responded to the risk of Soviet espionage.”

The government, through the Joint States Attorney for the Southern Locality of New York, had opposed the release of the Brothman/Moskowitz materials. On August 26, 2008, however, Pass judgement Alvin Hellerstein decided they were of “respectable historical importance” and ordered them released. The management declined to appeal that ruling.

“The disclosure of the Rosenberg and Brothman/Moskowitz transcripts bears viewer to the idea that historically valuable admirable jury records should, after a reasonable aeon of time, be made public,” explained David Vladeck, judgement for the Archive and the historical associations that supported the apply for and a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. “Keeping our political entity’s history secret serves no authorize purpose. These records were too important to be Nautical port to gather dust on the shelves of the Inhabitant Archives. Now that they have been released, historians and the American people can turn up to grips with their own history.” More