Chapter 26 - Part II - Rosenberg & Sec 3
Klaus Fuchs
A British scientist who admitted to sending information to the Soviet Union and his testimony led to the arrest of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Hollywood Ten
A group of ten screen writers in Hollywood that used their Fifth Amendment right to protect themselves from self incrimination and refused to testify before HUAC
Hollywood Blacklist
A list prepared by producers of suspected communists that was given out so people would not hire them.
What was the Loyalty Review Program?
A process established by President Truman to screen all federal employees to confirm their loyalty to the US
McCarran Act
AKA - Internal Security Act - declared that "world Communism has as its sole purpose the establishment of totalitarian dictatorship in America"
What retired KGB agent at age of 83 gave a detailed report of the Rosenberg's activities?
Alexander Feklisov
Why did Ethel's brother turn them in?
He and his wife were arrested for conspiracy and confessed and tried to get their sentence reduced by saying Julius had recruited him and Ethel typed the espionage material
How did Rosenberg provide the proximity fuse?
He assembled a duplicate from discarded spare parts and smuggled it out of the Emerson Radio Factory in New York City in December 1944
What was the main secret Rosenberg provided to the Soviets?
He passed them a fully functioning proximity fuse, a secret WWII US innovation that enables an anti-aircraft missle to bring down it target without hitting it.
Who provided the critical information to convict Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
Her brother David Greenglass and his wife Ruth
HUAC
House Un-American Activities Committee - formed to investigate both Communist and Fascist activities in the US
Venona Project
Project by American cryptographers who cracked the Soviet spy code that enabled them to confirm soviet spying and go after spies in the US including the Rosenbergs
What did Feklisov say about Ethel Rosenberg involvement?
She did not actively provide secrets, but was probably aware of what her husband was doing but they had never met with her
Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
US citizens who were charged and executed for war crimes of giving Soviets secrets about the atomic bomb
Alger Hiss Case
Whittaker Chamber, a former Communist Party member testified that several government officials were former communist and spies. He named Alger Hiss as one and provided evidence to prove that this was true after Alger Hiss denied it. Hiss was convicted of perjury for lying under oath.
Where did Greenglass work?
as a mechanic at Los Alamos, NM where the first atomic bombs were assembled.
Red Channels
prepared by 3 ex FBI agents claimed to identify 151 subversive entertainers in radio and television
What did Feklisov say Julius Rosenberg passed to Soviets?
valuable secrets about US electronics, but only a peripheral role in the Soviet Atomic espionage
fallout
the radiation left over after a nuclear bomb blast
