Testimony from Rosenberg brother released in famous Jewish spies case
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WASHINGTON - The US government has unsealed new grand jury testimony in the sensational Cold War spying case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
The couple was executed in 1953 after being convicted in New York of conspiring to give atomic secrets to the Soviets.
The previously sealed testimony is from David Greenglass, the brother of Ethel Rosenberg and the government's star witness in the trial. His damaging testimony helped secure a conviction against the Rosenbergs, though Greenglass admitted to a journalist decades later that he had lied on the stand to protect his wife.
Historians and archivists had fought in court for years for access to the testimony, and a federal judge in New York judge ordered the records unsealed following Greenglass's death last year at age 92.
