Happy Friday, FOIA Files readers! This week, to briefly avert your eyes from what is shaping up to be a hotly contested election, I'm going to do something a little different: highlight a Cold War-era document that was obtained by other frequent FOIA filers. If you're not already getting FOIA Files in your inbox, sign up here.

For half a century, intense government secrecy has surrounded the most notorious McCarthy-era espionage case in history -- the investigation, prosecution and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the husband and wife convicted of conspiracy to steal secrets about the atomic bomb for the Soviets.