>I’ve always wondered: why was it so important for so many on the left to believe that the Rosenbergs really weren’t spies? After all, the accusation was that they shared information with the USSR, during WWII, when it was an ally of the US.
Julius R was apparently a spy. Ethel was framed and innocent. (Julius was framed and guilty.)
> This kind of issue has always seemed like the left at its sillier,
At the time the issue was whether the CP was simply an fifth column of the USSR at the height of the cold war, and implicitly whether the New Deal was tainted by being run by Commies. (That was the big deal with Hiss even more than the Rs.)
jks
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