FAMOUS SPIES NUMBER TWO
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
1915 & 1918 -1953
Spied For: The Soviet Union
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were
American Communists who were executed for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet
Union. They met in the Young Communist League in 1936, where he was a leader.
They had two sons. Julius was recruited by the KGB in 1942 and was regarded as
one of their top spies. He passed classified reports from Emerson Radio,
including a fuze design which was later used to shoot down a U-2 in 1960.
