| LC control no. | n 50016647 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Sobell, Morton |
| Birth date | 1917-04-11 |
| Death date | 2018-12-26 |
| Place of birth | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Espionage Conspiracy |
| Profession or occupation | Spies |
| Found in | Sharp, M. P. Was justice done? 1956. NUCMC files (Sobell, Morton, 1917- ) New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 31, 2019 (in obituary published Jan. 30: Morton Sobell; b. Apr. 11, 1917, Manhattan; d. there Dec. 26 [2018], aged 101; convicted in the Cold War spy trial that delivered Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to their deaths and divided the nation for decades; serving 18 years in prison until 1969, he asserted his innocence until 2008, when, in an interview with The New York times, he startled his defenders by reversing himself and admitting that he had indeed been a Soviet spy; he also implicated Mr. Rosenberg in a conspiracy that supplied the Soviets with non-atomic military and industrial secrets stolen from the United States government; Mr. Rosenberg was tried along with his wife and Mr. Sobell in 1951 on the same charge: conspiracy to commit espionage) |
| Associated language | eng |
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