{"id":2227167,"date":"2024-04-22T13:10:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T17:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/infamous-1940s-spy-rosenberg-claimed-loyalty-patriotism-to-america\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T13:11:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T17:11:20","slug":"infamous-1940s-spy-rosenberg-claimed-loyalty-patriotism-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/infamous-1940s-spy-rosenberg-claimed-loyalty-patriotism-to-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosenberg, the notorious spy from the 1940s, professed loyalty and patriotism to America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Finfamous-1940s-spy-rosenberg-claimed-loyalty-patriotism-to-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2227167&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Julius Rosenberg, a Soviet spy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-to-pardon-gen-michael-flynn-per-report\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump to Pardon Gen. Michael Flynn, Per Report\">pleaded<\/a>\u2063 with officials to retain his job \u2063at the Army Signal Corps before his\u200d and his wife Ethel&#8217;s execution at Sing Sing prison. He\u2064 defended himself against accusations of\u200d Communist \u200cParty membership, asserting\u2064 his loyalty to America and the denial of his right to support his family. The plea,\u200b made in\u200c a 1945 memo, highlights\u2063 his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-paid-steele-dossier-source-igor-danchenko-as-confidential-source-after-being-caught-in-lies\/\" title=\"FBI Paid Steele Dossier Source Igor Danchenko as Confidential Source After Being Caught in Lies\">unsuccessful efforts<\/a> to clear his name.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Eight years before he and his wife Ethel were executed in the electric chair at <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"New York\">New York<\/a>\u2018s notorious Sing Sing prison, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/1201759\/the-new-york-times-gets-greenglass-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Soviet spy<\/a> Julius Rosenberg pleaded with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/treasury-department-hit-with-large-scale-breach-national-security-council-now-involved\/\" title=\"Treasury Department Hit with Large-Scale Breach, National Security Council Now Involved\">federal officials<\/a> to keep his job with the Army Signal Corps.<\/p>\n<p>In a secret two<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-deeply-disturbed-by-report-alleging-systemic-rape-sexual-abuse-torture-for-muslim-women-in-chinese-internment-camps\/\" title=\"State Department \u2018Deeply Disturbed\u2019 By Report Alleging Systemic Rape, Sexual Abuse, Torture For Muslim Women In Chinese Internment Camps\">-page memo<\/a> to officials who had just suspended Rosenberg, he claimed he was wronged because of a \u201cdiscredited charge\u201d that he had joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/communists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Communist Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt only serves to persecute me, prevents me from making my contribution to the war effort as an electronic engineer and earning my livelihood in the established American way, and thereby denies me my inalienable right to maintain myself, my wife and child,\u201d he wrote on Feb. 13, 1945.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Image courtesy Alexander Historical Auctions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI refer you to all the contractors and their representatives at whose plants I\u2019ve been stationed, to all my former Resident Inspectors in Charge and my former Officers in Charge, as to my technical ability, efficiency and character; they can testify also as to my loyalty, patriotism and devotion to my country,\u201d he added in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-plea-comer-says-foiled-plea-agreement-strips-biden-lawyers-of-bully-power\/\" title=\"Comer claims failed plea deal weakens Biden lawyers' influence.\">failed plea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexautographs.com\/auction-lot\/julius-rosenberg_15140B5856?catalogReferredQueryParam=%253FdisplayNum%253D180%2526pageNum%253D1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>memo is one of the prizes<\/a> in an online auction this week from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexautographs.com\/auctions\/upcoming-auctions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Alexander Historical Auctions<\/a>. It could fetch $40,000.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day sale, which begins on Thursday, also includes paintings by former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexautographs.com\/auction-lot\/adolf-hitler-signed-artwork-with-photographs_E414809980\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Nazi leader Adolf Hitler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Historical Auctions President Bill Panagopulos reviewed the sale with Secrets and said the Rosenberg memo is a very rare offering.<\/p>\n<p>In his online preview, he wrote that it includes Rosenberg\u2019s signature, giving it an added feature for history buffs. \u201cAn autograph \u2014 with content \u2014 of the utmost rarity!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>Image courtesy Alexander Historical Auctions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Panagopulos included some of the spying history of the criminal duo in his preview and said that at the time he begged to keep his job in 1945, Rosenberg was already spying for Moscow.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEE THE LATEST POLITICAL NEWS AND BUZZ FROM WASHINGTON SECRETS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 1940, Rosenberg joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps as a civilian engineer, working at the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories at Fort Monmouth. By 1942, he had become involved in espionage for the Soviet Union, providing numerous classified documents, including a model of a proximity fuze. He also attempted to recruit others to spy for the Soviet Union, including his brother-in-law David Greenglass, a member of the Special Engineer Detachment at Los Alamos who passed details about the Manhattan Project to Rosenberg,\u201d the preview said.<\/p>\n<p>In 1950, Greenglass revealed Rosenberg as a spy, and the Rosenbergs were arrested. They were tried and executed three years later without giving a statement, making his Signal Corps memo even more valuable.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Image courtesy Alexander Historical Auctions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before facing execution at Sing Sing prison, Julius Rosenberg, a Soviet spy, pleaded to keep his Army Signal Corps job. In a confidential memo, he protested his suspension, insisting on his innocence. The plea fell on deaf ears, and he and his wife, Ethel, later met their fate in the electric chair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"featured_media":2227168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP5103290101-817x1024.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2227167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP5103290101-817x1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2227168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}