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Could Secret Cables Have Saved Ethel Rosenberg From the Electric Chair?

‘WORSE THAN MURDER’

Even as Ethel Rosenberg was strapped into the electric chair for spying for Moscow in 1953, decrypted cables might have spared her. But they were released only decades later.

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