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Declassified documents shed light on Ethel Rosenberg's involvement in her husband's Cold War spy case

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Ethel Rosenberg and her husband, Julius , were executed in 1953 after being convicted of espionage.

Their sons, Robert and Michael Meeropol , have worked for decades to establish that their mother was falsely implicated in spying.

The brothers consider the memo a smoking gun and are urging President Joe Biden to issue a formal proclamation saying she was wrongly convicted and executed.

Ethel Rosenberg's brother, David Greenglass , was indicted as a co-conspirator and served 10 years in prison.

In 2015 , secret grand jury testimony from Greenglass was unsealed that contradicted damaging statements he made during the Rosenbergs ’ trial.

Greenglass claimed at trial that he had given research data he obtained while working as an Army machinist at the Manhattan Project .

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