The Venona project intercepted and translated top-secret coded messages between Moscow and its overseas KGB stations, revealing Julius led a spy ring in the 1940s.
A previously classified document released in August 2024 reveals that Ethel was not a spy, but historians remain polarized over her culpability in the espionage affair.
Emory University historian Harvey Klehr contends that Ethel Rosenberg was rightly convicted, as the belief in her innocence is untethered from actual evidence.
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research director Jonathan Brent asserts that the myth of Ethel's innocence is a belief matter rather than one dependent on concrete evidence.
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