Morton Sobell

1917–2018

Nationality: United States
Occupation: engineer

Incarceration history

Facilities

Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary
Dates unknown
Usp Lewisburg
Dates unknown

Biography

Morton Sobell (April 11, 1917 â December 26, 2018) was an American engineer and Soviet spy during and after World War II; he was charged as part of a conspiracy which included Julius Rosenberg and his wife, Ethel Rosenberg. Sobell worked on military and government contracts with General Electric and Reeves Instrument Corporation in the 1940s, including during World War II. Sobell was tried and convicted of espionage in 1951 and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He was released in 1969 after serving 17 years and 9 months in prison. After that he became an advocate of socialist causes, conducting public speaking and traveling to Vietnam (during the war), to East Germany (before the fall of the Soviet Union), and to Cuba.

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