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Anna Colloms
'''Anna Colloms''' was a teacher at Washington Irving High School in New York City during [[World War II]].  Colloms was also a member of the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA) and alleged to be a member of its underground [[History_  of_  Soviet_  espionage_  in_  the_  United_  States#Secret_  apparatus|secret apparatus]], which was functioning at the time as an auxiliary to [[NKVD|Soviet intelligence]].  In [[August]] [[1943]], Colloms allegedly acted as a courier for Soviet intelligence to [[Mexico]], as part of the plan to free [[Leon Trotsky]]'s murderer, [[Ramón Mercader]], from a Mexican prison.

Colloms was alleged to be associated with [[Jacob Epstein (spy)|Jacob Epstein]] and [[Ruth Wilson]], a husband and wife working for Soviet intelligence in [[Mexico City]].

==Venona traffic==
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==References==
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999) 
*Comintern Apparatus Summary Report, 15 December 1944, FBI Comintern Apparatus file, serial 3702
*Colloms testimony, “American Aspects of Assassination of Leoh Trotsky,” U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Un-American Activities Committee, 82nd Cong., 1st sess., 1951


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