A must-read about Julius Rosenberg, arguably the worst figure in American history, who has been
staunchly defended by the American political left, even to this day:
It has taken almost half a century, but Steven Usdin, in "Engineering Communism"...has finally told the story of the two men recruited by Julius Rosenberg to be Soviet spies and how they evaded the FBI and escaped to carry on their work on behalf of the Soviet state....Mr. Usdin's greatest accomplishment is to clear up remaining gaps in the story of the Rosenberg espionage network. The Rosenbergs' defenders have long claimed that whatever the couple did, it was for genuine anti-fascist motives and that they only were concerned with helping an American ally. Mr. Usdin puts that argument to rest. He emphasizes that Rosenberg was recruited as a Soviet spy before June 1941 - i.e., during the years of the Nazi-Soviet Pact - and his primary motive was that he saw himself "as a partisan fighting behind enemy lines ... on behalf of Soviet Communism." He and his recruits wanted to "do anything they could to help the Soviet cause - before, during, and after the war against Hitler." Barr, Sarant, and Rosenberg were Soviet patriots above all else.
Most unbelievable is what happened to Joel Barr after he surfaced in 1990. Returning to the United States, Barr worried that he would be met at the airport by the FBI and quickly prosecuted for his crimes. He did not have to worry. Barr applied for and received monthly Social Security payments for the work he had done when he was spying for the Soviets, along with full citizenship rights, including the right to vote.
