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Article: National Security Archive and Historical Associations Petition for Release of Rosenberg Grand Jury Records
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 31, 2008
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The National Security Archives issued the following news release:
The National Security Archive, along with several leading U.S. historical associations, today is filing a petition in federal court in New York City for the release of grand jury records from the 1951 indictment of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were accused of running an espionage ring that passed American atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, convicted of spying, and executed in 1953.
Supported by extensive declarations from experts, the petition describes the trial of the Rosenbergs as a defining moment in the Cold War, and argues that 57 years later, scholarly and public interest in these transcripts far outweigh any ...