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Brothers Michael Meeropol and Robert Meeropol had to conclude their father, Julius Rosenberg, was indeed a spy. They have no reason to doubt the claim by Rosenberg's co-defendant and classmate, Morton Sobell:

While they were vested in a single outcome, they insisted all along that they would follow the facts, wherever they led.

“We believed they were innocent and we tried to prove them innocent,” Michael Meeropol said on Sunday. “But I remember saying to myself in late 1975, maybe a little later, that whatever happens, it doesn’t change me. We really meant it, that the truth is more important than our political position.”

This is how they still see things: whatever atomic bomb information their father passed to the Russians was, at best, superfluous; the case was riddled with prosecutorial and judicial misconduct; their mother was convicted on flimsy evidence to place leverage on her husband; and neither deserved the death penalty.

Morton Sobell is 91:

Coupled with some of that grand jury testimony, Mr. Sobell’s admission bolsters what has become a widely held view among scholars: that Mr. Rosenberg was, indeed, guilty of spying, but that his wife was at most a bit player in the conspiracy and may have been framed by complicit prosecutors.