David Greenglass, US Cold War spy, 'died in July'

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Source: BBC

15 October 2014 Last updated at 13:28 GMT

David Greenglass, US Cold War spy, 'died in July'

An American spy who passed nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union in one of the most high-profile espionage scandals of the Cold War has died.

David Greenglass, who was 92, stole atomic research data while working on the wartime Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

After being arrested he then lied on oath and gave evidence which sent his own sister to the electric chair.

Greenglass's death was in July but it has only now been reported.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29628350

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1. David Greenglass, the Brother Who Doomed Ethel Rosenberg, Dies at 92.

It was the most notorious spy case of the Cold War — the conviction and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union — and it rested largely on the testimony of Ms. Rosenberg’s brother David Greenglass, whose name to many became synonymous with betrayal.

For his role in the conspiracy, Mr. Greenglass, an Army sergeant who had stolen nuclear intelligence from Los Alamos, N.M., went to prison for almost a decade, then changed his name and lived quietly until a journalist tracked him down. He admitted then, nearly a half-century later, that he had lied on the witness stand to save his wife from prosecution, giving testimony that he was never sure about but that nevertheless helped send his sister and her husband to the electric chair in 1953.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/us/david-greenglass-spy-who-helped-seal-the-rosenbergs-doom-dies-at-92.html?_r=0

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2. Didn't know he was still alive

Yeah I know; not anymore.

Relic of a very dark time in U.S. history, one which an alarming number of people would like to revisit.

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3. One of the slimiest people to ever live.