passing information to the Union of Soviet Socialist

Republics (USSR) concerning the construction of nuclear

weapons. In 1953, the United States Government executed

them. Some say, the Rosenbergs received their just

punishment. Many historians feel that the trial was unfair,

and that international claims for clemency were wrongly

ignored. These historians claim that the Rosenbergs were

assassinated by the US government. This report will be an

analysis of the trial, the events which led up to it, and its

aftermath. What Led to the Arrest? The first clue America

had that a Russian spy ring existed in the US was the

discovery of a KGB codebook on the Finnish battlefield

during World War II. When compared with Germany's

machine-scrambled codes, the code appeared to be

relatively primitive; a certain set of numbers corresponded

to a word, letter, or essential phrase. There was a little

catch though; the codebook was to be read with a

corresponding page that every KGB officer was given.

Because the American ciphers did not have the

corresponding page, there were an infinite number of

possibilities that could have corresponded to the book,

Ruth Printz. In 1943, the Greenglasses joined the YCL,

Guild and the Civil Rights Congress. He served on the

without leading the FBI to them. (Meerpool 37) On July

impossible to convict someone of treason. It was such a

was a more important problem than this one, never another

Attorney Irving Saypool was prosecuting the case. Saypool

was the most publicized spy hunt of all time. Another

prosecuted Communists, including Alger Hiss and the

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