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PAGE SEVEN AND ALFRED STERN, ESTHER RAND AND POSSIBLE THE MARTINS, ALSO _ CONCERNING SOBLEAS POSSIBLE FUTURE USEFULNESS TO THE SOVIETS, SOBLE TOLD THEN OF THE FACTORY IN VERBERIE AND HIS DESIRE TO PURCHASE IT FROM HIS BROTHER. FODOTOV PROPOSED GIVING SOBLE TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THIS AiID ZUBILIN OBJECTED SAYING THE MONEY WOULD BE PAID IN FRANCE. ON RETUPN TO PARIS VIA VIENNA AND PRAGUE SOBLE AGAIN NET s BAla -SOBLE STATED HE DID NOT KNOW VMAT ALBAN-S ASSIGHIENTS WERE AT THAT TIME BUT SAID THAT THE SOVIETS THROUGHT KOUZNETSOV INSTRUCTED ALDAIL TO PROCEED TO THE US. ALBAM PROCEEDED TO THE US AND SOBEL HE MIM IL LATE FORTYSEVEN IN US. SOBLE RELATED THAT ALBALi HAD TOLD WIL: THAT HE HAD RETURNED TO PARIS IN FORTYSIX VIA A RUSSIAN PLANE WHICH YAS LANDED IN PARIS AND ALBAM WAS SMUGCLED FROM THE PLANE, INASHUCH AS ALBAL] SPOKE FRENCH WELL AND ARRANGED FOR FRENCH PAPERS. SOBLE DENIED THAT HE HAD ASSIGNMENT TO GET WIFE IN US FOR ALBAM BUT ADMITTED THAT HE HAD CONTACTED ALICE HARTIN AND RAND IN EFFORT TO GET WIFE FOR ALBAM. ALBAM IN FORTYEIGHT RETURNED TO PARIS AFTER UARRIAGE AND SOBLE ler WE THERE, SOBLE CLAIMED HE DID NOT NOW RELATIONS OF ALBAM WITH KOUZNETSOV THOUGH SOBLE ADMITTED KOUZNETSOV VAS HIS SOVIET CONTACT AT SANE TINUE. SOBLE CLAINED THAT HE DID NOT KNOW ASSIGNNENT OF ALBAU FOR SOVIETS IH US BUT SAID. ALBAU TOLD HIN SOVIETS HAD FINANCED TRIP AND “GEVE ALBAN FUNDS FOR HAINTENAHCE. SOBLE STATED THAT ONLY REPORT HE SECURED HID PAGE SEVEN 7