From: stewarts@ix.netcom.com (Bill Stewart)
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 95 02:15:28 PDT
To: hoz@univel.telescan.com (rick hoselton)
Subject: Re: Sat phone permit "wire"taps
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At 12:52 AM 7/31/95 -0700, rick hoselton wrote:
>
>>Different cases - the Walkers gave away information on how the Yankees were
>>stealing Russian secrets, which the Russians patched up by encrypting.
>
>Really?  Do you have a reference for this?  I am interested.
No refs, this is just memory of the news.  There was an undersea cable
north of Siberia somewhere that carried a lot of unencrypted military
traffic, which US Submarines were eavesdropping on.  I think Walker was
the one who leaked it, and they started encrypting.  Refs on the Walkers
should be easy to find in the library; there were a couple of books.
>
>>The most current information on the Rosenbergs, gotten from decrypted Soviet
>>communications and declassified US and ex-Soviet files, indicates that Ethel
>>Rosenberg
>>was probably innocent of spying, and Julius was spying but didn't give away
>>any useful atomic secrets, and that the FBI probably knew at the time they
>>had Ethel killed that she was innocent.  
>
>WOW!  Had them killed?  They WERE tried and convicted, you know. 

Yes, with government-provided evidence, and with the government withholding
inconvenient evidence.  There was a story on KPFA radio in the last week or so
covering an article on the Rosenbergs in some lefty magazine, probably The
Nation,
by a couple who have been strong supporters of them for years, and are now
saying that "sorry, friends, it looks like Julius _was_ spying, though not
atomically".
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