Julius Rosenberg

Born in 1918 in New York to Jewish immigrants from Russia. Groomed in the Orthodox Jewish faith to be a rabbi. - Attended City College of New York with a degree in Electrical Engineering. While attending the school, became a devout member of the Communist Party. Married Ethel Greenglass in 1939.

Began working for the United States Signal Corp in 1940 as a civilian employee. Believed to have become a spy for the Soviet Union during this period of time, confiding his actions to his wife and seeking her aid with his activities. The Rosenbergs were believed to have been recruited by NKVD agent Gaik Ovakimian.

As he became more involved in espionage activities, Julius Rosenberg stepped back from his Communist Party activities so as not to draw attention to himself. Worked under the control of Soviet spymaster Anatoli Yakovlev, an attaché from the Russian Consulate in New York. Yakovlev instructed Julius to seek to obtain information related to the development of atomic weaponry, specifically the atomic bomb.

Ethel Rosenberg's brother David Greenglass was involved in the research taking place in Los Alamos, New Mexico on the atomic bomb. Code-named "the Manhattan Project", the work involved many of the most respected scientific minds in the world. One of the people involved was Klaus Fuchs, a brilliant physicist from sent over from England.