Editing Venona project (section)

===Julius and Ethel Rosenberg===
{{Main|Julius and Ethel Rosenberg}}

Venona has added significant information to the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, making it clear Julius was guilty of espionage, and also showing that Ethel, while not acting as a principal, still acted as an accessory who took part in Julius's espionage activity and played a role in the recruitment of her brother for atomic espionage.<ref>{{cite book |last= Haynes |first= John |title= Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America |publisher= [[Yale University Press]] |location= [[New Haven, Connecticut]] |year= 2000 |isbn= 978-0-300-07771-1|quote=The Venona messages clearly display Julius Rosenberg's role as the leader of a productive ring of Soviet spies...they confirm that she [Ethel] was a participant in her husband's espionage and in the recruitment of her brother for atomic espionage. But they suggest that she was essentially an accessory to her husband's activity, having knowledge of it and assisting him but not acting as a principal.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/haynes-venona.html |access-date=August 16, 2016}}</ref>

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg also had another connection to a recruit for the Soviets named David Greenglass, who was Ethel's brother and Julius's brother-in-law.

Venona and other recent information has shown that, while the content of Julius' atomic espionage was not as vital to the Soviets as alleged at the time of his espionage activities, in other fields it was extensive. The information Rosenberg passed to the Soviets concerned the [[proximity fuze]], design and production information on the [[P-80 Shooting Star|Lockheed P-80]] jet fighter, and thousands of classified reports from [[Emerson Radio]].

The Venona evidence indicates unidentified sources code-named "Quantum" and "Pers" who facilitated transfer of nuclear weapons technology to the Soviet Union from positions within the Manhattan Project. According to Alexander Vassiliev's notes from KGB archive, "Quantum" was [[Boris Podolsky]] and "Pers" was Russell W. McNutt, an engineer from the uranium processing plant in [[Oak Ridge, Tennessee|Oak Ridge]].<ref>{{cite book
| first1 = John Earl
| last1 = Haynes
| first2 = Harvey E.
| last2 = Klehr
| first3 = Alexander
| last3 = Vassiliev
| author-link3 = Alexander Vassiliev
| year = 2009
| title = Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America
| url = https://archive.org/details/spiesrisefallofk00john
| url-access = registration
| publisher = Yale University Press
| location = New Haven
| isbn = 978-0-300-12390-6
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/spiesrisefallofk00john/page/73 73], 339
}}</ref><ref>[http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Vassiliev-Notebooks-and-Venona-Index-Concordance.pdf Vassiliev-Notebooks-and-Venona-Index-Concordance.pdf], ed. 2013, pp: 325, 343</ref>