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The Soviet Spies

June 22, 1938

The Soviet Spies of Fort Monmouth

Editor’s note: The story of Julius Rosenberg and the theft of the Manhattan Project atomic bomb secrets is one of the most chronicled events in American history.  Most of that coverage is focused on Rosenberg and his wife, Ethel, and...
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May 27, 1941

Fort Monmouth in World War II

On May 27, 1941, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared a state of unlimited national emergency in response to Nazi Germany’s threats of military aggression.  The soldiers and civilians of the U.S. Signal Corps at Fort Monmouth had been very busy...
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November 20, 1941

The Defining Technology of World War II is RADAR

On Thursday, November 20, 1941, Thanksgiving Day, a new mobile electronic detection system was set up at Opana Point on Oahu, Hawai'i. Just days later, on December 7, 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, triggering the entry...
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November 11, 1944

1945 Marks the End of the Soviet Spy Ring at Fort Monmouth – or Does It?

On November 11, 1944, encrypted communications from Soviet intelligence intercepted by the FBI indicated that Alfred Sarant, a civilian engineer working at U.S. defense contractors, had been recruited as a spy; the message also set forth procedures for the transmission...
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October 20, 1953

Tail Gunner Joe Sets His Sights on Fort Monmouth and the Signal Corps

On October 20, 1953, U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, along with his chief aide Roy Cohn, arrived at the entry to Camp Evans, the ancillary base in Wall  that was part of the World War II expansion of Fort...
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September 19, 1983

The Legacy of the Soviet Spies at Fort Monmouth

During World War II and briefly after, Julius Rosenberg, Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant stole military secrets of the U.S. Signal Corps on behalf of the USSR.  But by 1956, Rosenberg was dead, executed along with his wife Ethel for...
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