Press Coverage

viernes, 09 de julio de 2010 15:55, Teresa Bouza

Washington, 9 jul (EFE).- Robert Meeropol tenía seis años cuando sus padres fueron ejecutados por entregar, supuestamente, el secreto de la bomba atómica a la entonces Unión Soviética, una experiencia que revive estos días al pensar en los niños de los espías canjeados con Moscú...  Más aquí: http://noticias.latino.msn.com/politica/articulos.aspx?cp-documentid=24829124

The ten agents who admitted gathering intelligence for Russia have arrived back in Moscow after being deported from the US, but what is the fate of their American-born children?...

Robert Meeropol, Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, says he identifies with their plight.  Read the rest of the article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10579474.stm

July 8, 2010 radio interview with Robert Meeropol on BBC Newshour, regarding what his experience was like when his parents were arrested in the 1950's, and what he thinks the experience might be like for the children of the recently-deported Russian "spy ring." Hear the interview at the 26:30 mark at  http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p008gs0k.

By Dugald McConnell, CNN
July 2, 2010 7:10 p.m. EDT

Washington (CNN) -- What will happen to the children of the suspects jailed this week on accusations of spying?

The four couples imprisoned this week all have children, whose ages range from 1 year old to adulthood -- children who now face separation from their parents, as well as allegations that their parents are not who they said they were...

Robert Rosenberg Meeropol has described the difficulties in finding a home for him after his parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. They were executed in the 1950s in a case that was far more serious than this week's allegations.

"My relatives were so frightened of being associated with 'communist spies' that they refused to take me into their homes," Meeropol wrote on the website of The Rosenberg Fund for Children before this week's charges surfaced. "First I lived in a shelter. Later I lived with friends of my parents in New Jersey, but I was thrown out of school after the board of education found out who I was."

Read the rest of the article at http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/02/us.russian.spy.children/.

With parents behind bars, kids' lives likely in turmoil

by Elizabeth Chuck and Ryan McCartney
msnbc.com
updated 6/30/2010 7:00:35 PM ET

A pool party on Sunday ended abruptly for 11-year-old Katie Murphy when the FBI swung by and whisked her back to her Montclair, N.J., home. That same night in Yonkers, N.Y., Waldomar Mariscal, 38, returned to the house he shares with his parents to find officers combing through his family’s possessions.

For 10 people alleged to be Russian spies, there is little question they’ll be held in FBI custody. But for their children, the immediate future isn’t quite as clear...

Cases involving the arrests of both parents on spying charges are rare in the U.S. One of the most high-profile cases was Robert Meeropol, who was orphaned as a child after his parents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were executed on spy charges during the McCarthy era. Meeropol now runs The Rosenberg Fund for Children, an organization aimed at providing emotional and educational support for children in the U.S. whose parents “have suffered because of their progressive activities,” according to the foundation’s website.

Read the rest of the story at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38021300/ns/us_news-security/...

Seven children belong to the four couples charged with being spies for Russian intelligence services

Chris McGreal in Washington
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 30 June 2010 21.14 BST

Katie Murphy, 11, said goodbye to her parents to go to a a friend's birthday party and sleepover. When she got home next morning, her mother and father had been arrested and FBI agents were turning her bedroom upside down. Neighbours looked on astonished as Katie and her sister Lisa, seven, left the house carrying pillows and backpacks and accompanied by a female FBI agent.

In all, seven children belong to the four couples charged with being spies. Some are too young to understand other than that their parents are gone...

Going back to the real cold war, perhaps the most heart-wrenching case of such children is the sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Robert and Michael were six and 10 in 1953 when their parents were put to death for passing atomic secrets to Moscow. They have spent their lives grappling with that.

Read the rest of the story at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/30/russian-spies-families-children.

Published: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 8:00 AM

By Judy Peet

MONTCLAIR — Less than a week ago, 11-year-old Katie Murphy was proudly receiving multiple awards at her 5th-grade graduation. Now, no one in her Montclair neighborhood knows what happened to Katie and her younger sister, Lisa, who were last seen in the company of the FBI after their parents were arrested Sunday night as Russian agents...

In the past century in the U.S. , there have been just a handful of cases involving both parents’ simultaneous arrest for spying. The most notorious involves Robert and Michael Rosenberg, who were just 6 and 10 in 1953 when their parents, Ethel and Julius, became the only Americans executed as Russian spies. More than 50 years later, Robert Meeropol — his adopted name — is director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, a non-profit organization that supports the offspring of imprisoned dissidents. Although he is currently abroad and not available for comment, Meeropol discusses what it feels like to be the child in this situation on the fund’s website...

Read the rest at http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/06/accused_russian_spies_children_nightmare.html

ROBERT MEEROPOL talks about the 20th anniversary of the Rosenberg Fund for Children and reports on new info on the Rosenberg case in the new book Exoneration by Emily and David Alman.