The Rosenbergs were accused of participating in a conspiracy to commit espionage by providing secret U.S. military and nuclear information to the Soviet Union. While Julius Rosenberg was working as a civilian engineer for the U.S. Army Signal Corps, he and Ethel Rosenberg were accused of working together to disclose military secrets to the Soviet Union. Ethel Rosenberg’s brother, David Greenglass, who worked on the Manhattan Project, supplied them with information about nuclear weapons, which the Rosenbergs then passed to Harry Gold, a courier who delivered it to a Soviet official. Because of these activities, they were charged with conspiracy to commit espionage, tried in 1951, found guilty, and sentenced to death.
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