American and Soviet Espionage

 

 
Photos from the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Online Databases
ABC-CLIO American History (You'll need Franklin's access codes.)
...information about the trial, with links to related topics; includes a newsreel clip of the Rosenbergs
Student Resource Center Gold
(You'll need Franklin's access codes to use at home but not from school.)...full-text newspaper, periodical, and reference book articles; biographies; critical essays; primary source documents; audio and video clips; and links to selected websites
SIRS Decades
(You'll need Franklin's access codes to use at home but not from school.)...20th century American sources: original documents, speeches, advertisements, editorial cartoons, photographs, posters, etc.
A number of the key figures in the Rosenberg case are included in Biography Resource Center, an online database provided by Baltimore County Public Library. You will need to input your BCPL barcode number.

General Information about the Rosenberg Case
The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg...includes biographies of trial participants, excerpts of the trial transcripts, and more Studies in Intelligence...an overview of the case
The Rosenbergs: A Case of Love, Espionage, Deceipt, and Betrayal...great resource; chapters include Prologue, Crimes, Julius and Ethel, The Trial, Sentencing, Appeals, and Epilogue FBI History: Famous Cases: The Atom Spy Case...great resource; includes background on principal subjects, testimony of key figures, propaganda, and more

Other Espionage Information

The Silvermaster Network
Notes on Hoover Spy Letter
Politics and the Attacks on FDR's Economists
Selected Venona Letters
Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations
The Silvermaster File
Silvermaster File Summaries

The Manhattan Project
Espionage on the Manhattan Project
FBI History: Famous Cases: The Atom Spy Case
The Atomic Spy Ring

Bios & Primary Docs
Elizabeth Bentley
Elizabeth Bentley, Witness for the Prosecution
Elizabeth Terrill Bentley
Elizabeth Bentley (PBS)
Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley
Elizabeth Bentley
Truth Spiller (book review)
Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations
Ruth Greenglass
Ruth Greenglass, Witness for the Prosecution
Biography of Ruth Greenglass
R. Greenglass Testimony
Players: Ruth Greenglass

Lauchlin Currie
Lauchlin Currie (FBI)

Theodore Hall
Los Alamos National Laboratory: History: People of Wartime Los Alamos: Spies

Max Elitcher
Briographies of Participants
Testimony of Max Elitcher
Players: Max Elitcher
Alger Hiss 
Alger Hiss
The Alger Hiss Story
Alger Hiss
The Promising Mr. Hiss
The Alger Hiss Trial
Edward R. Murrow and the Alger Hiss Trial, Narrated

The Alger Hiss Issue
The Alger Hiss Spy Case
Alexander Feklisov
Alexander Feklisov
Interview with Alexander Feklisov
Silent for 56 Years
J. Robert Oppenheimer
United States Atomic Energy Commision. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
AEC Letter to Oppenheimer
People & Events: J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Oppenheimer Affair
J. Robert Oppenheimer Centennial
Robert Oppenheimer
Testimony in the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
KD Nichols to J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer to KD Nichols
Arthur Holly Compton to Gordon Gray
Testimony in the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: General Leslie R. Groves
Testimony in the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Hans Bethe
Testimony in the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: George F. Kerman
Testimony in the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Isador Rabi
Testimony in the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Edward Teller
Decision andOpinions of the United States Atomic Energy Commission in the Matter of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Oppenheimer Affair
Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs: Atom Bomb Spy
People & Events: Klaus Fuchs
Hans Bethe's Statement to the FBI on Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs' Statement
Klaus Fuchs' Statement of Offense
Klaus Fuchs
On the Origins of the Soviet Atomic Project

Klaus Fuchs, British Physicist and Spy
Citizen Kurchatov - Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs (Wikipedia Encyclopedia)
Letter Concerning Fuchs
Klaus Fuch's Oath of Secrecy
Edward Teller's Testimony
Ethel Rosenberg
Ethel Rosenberg
Testimony of Ethel Rosenberg
Biography of Ethel Rosenberg
Harry Gold
Biography of Harry Gold
Harry Gold - Manhattan Project Spy
Testimony of Harry Gold

Harry Gold
Testimony of Harry Gold, Witness for the Prosecution
The February 4, 1944 Cable: Klaus Fuchs and Harry Gold
Testimony of Harry Gold, Witness for the Prosecution
Julius Rosenberg
Testimony of Julius Rosenberg

Key Figures in the Trial: Julius Rosenberg
Jacob Golos
Elizabeth Bentley, Witness for the Prosecution
Morton Sobell
Morton Sobell
David Greenglass
Biographies of Participants
David Greenglass, Witness for the Prosecution
David Greenglass
D. Greenglass Testimony

NOVA Online: Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies

Harry Dexter White
Harry Dexter White and the International Monetary Fund

FBI Memorandum Identifying Harry Dexter White as Agent Jurist
The Case against Harry Dexter White: Still Not Proven
The White Case Record


Venona Documents
Klaus Fuchs and Harry Gold The Rosenbergs and the the Greenglasses
Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant London [GRU] to Moscow, 10 August 1941. Klaus Fuchs interview
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YAKOVLEV ANATOLIJ ANTONOVICH-MENTIONS HARRY GOLD-KLAUS FUCHS-JULIUS ETHEL ROSEN UNTITLED THE ROSENBERGS RENTED AN APARTMENT AT 65 MORTON STREET
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OPERATIONAL ATOM SPY ARRESTS AND SWITZERLAND DAVID GREENGLASS UNTITLED IN HIS TESTIMONY BEFORE A FEDERAL GRAND JURY IN CONNECTION WITH
Images of VENONA of Dispatches  

The Rosenberg Trial: Other Documents
Treason Defined (U.S. Constitution) The 1st, 5th and 6th Amendments (U.S. Constitution)
1917 Espionage Act The Smith Act (1940)
The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 The McCarran Internal Security Act 1950
President Truman's Veto Statememt R. H. Macy's Console Table Document
Dr. Harold Urey's Telegram President Eisenhower's Two Clemency Refusals
Justice Douglas's Dissenting Opinion Justices Black and Frankfurter: Dissenting Opinions
Changing the Time of Execution Front page text, The Worker, June 21, 1953
M. Perlin's Testmony (Congressional Hearings 1982) Rosenberg Cantata and Opera by Leonard Lehrman
ABA Moot Court Trial 1993 The Venona Papers
Morton Sobell on Venona Robert Meeropol on Venona
Michael Meeropol: The Significance of the Rosenberg Case Justice Department's letter plus NCRRC's response

60 Minutes II Interview with David Greenglass

Last updated January 31, 2007; Departments of Social Studies & Library Media, Franklin High School