In 1953 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed in the USA for spying for which country?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who spied, with others, for the Soviet Union and were tried, convicted, and executed by the federal government of the United States. They provided top-secret information about radar, sonar, and jet propulsion engines to the USSR and were accused of transmitting valuable nuclear weapon designs to the Soviet Union; at that time the United States was the only country in the world with nuclear weapons. Other convicted co-conspirators were imprisoned, including Ethel's brother, David Greenglass, who supplied documents from Los Alamos to Julius and who served 10 years of
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg at the conclusion, eyewitnesses (Bob Considine among them) reported that smoke rose from her head. The funeral services were held in Brooklyn on June 21. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were buried at Wellwood Cemetery, a Jewish cemetery in Pinelawn, New York. "The Times" reported that 500 people attended, while some 10,000 stood outside: The Rosenbergs were the only two American civilians to be executed for espionage-related activity during the Cold War. Deputy Attorney General of the United States William P. Rogers, when later asked about the death sentence imposed on Ethel in an effort to extract a full confession from