7 CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS SEEK STUDY OF ROSENBERG SPY CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605590007-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 2, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK TIMES
2 JUNE 1982
7 City Council Members Seek
Study of Rosenberg Spy. Case;
Seven members of the New York City
Council have asked the House Judiciary
Committee to make a study and report
on the case of Julius and Ethel Rosen.
berg, electrocuted in 1953 on a conic.
tion of atomic espionage conspiracy.
Their letter asserted, "The Supreme
Court has since reversed a number of
'Cases based upon the same due process
- violations which victimized the Rosen-
bergs." It was made public yesterday,
by the National Committee to Reopen;-!
the Rosenberg Case.
A spokesman for Representative?
Peter W. Rodino Jr., Democrat of New
Jersey, the House panel's chairman,
said it had nothing pending on the case,
but would consider the letter when it
was received. The letter was signed by
-Miriam Friedlander, Ruth Messinger,
Gilberto Gerena-Valentin, Mary Pin-
kett, Robert Steingut, Arthur J. Katz.
man and Wendell Foster.
-At the same time, Aaron Katz, na-
tional. chairman of the pro-Rosenberg
group, assailed last .week's report that
the b ~ohad led two know edge the
of
the Rosenbergs' guilt. He said such a
contention was first reported in march
1980 by David C. Martin, a Newsweek
magazine correspondent, who then said
that the Soviet Union had-learned about
the code-breaking and modified its code
in 1948. The Rosenbergs were not ar-
rested until 1950.
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