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e,, | s. URGENT 4-16-57 2-34 PM IN 4 TO DIRECTOR 6 : | a & FROM SAC NEW YORK 3 P JACK SOBLE., ESPIONAGE DASH R. JACK SOBLE INTERVIEWED AT FEDERAL — - CORRECTION INSTITUTION, DANBURY, CONNes MORNING OF APRIL SIXTEEN FIFTY © fe SEVEN. SOBLE ADMITTED INTRODUCING ESTHER RAND TO JACOB ALBAM EARLY ro NINETEEN FORTYEIGHT. ADMITS* MEETING RAND. WITH ALBAM ON STREET VICINITY: RAND=-S OFFICE AND THEREAFTER ALL THREE HAD’ LUNCH TOGETHER. SOBLE STATED PURPOSE OF MEETING WITH ALBAM WAS TO HAVE RAND” ASSIST IN LOCATING aneRIG AN WIFE FOR ALBAM,. SOBLE TOLD ARAND THAT ALBAM WAS SOVIET AGENT AND THES SECURING OF A WIFE FOR ALBAM WAS A SOVIET ASSIGNMENT. ALBAM HAD THE” e ASSIGNMENT FROM THE SOVIETS TO SECURE AMERICAN WIFE SO THAT HE COULD ESTABLISH SELF IN US FOR SOVIETS. SOBLE STATED THAT MISCHA PAREN KOUSNETZOV UNPAREN, WHO WAS IN PARIS AND SOVIET SUPERIOR OF BOTH ALBAM AND SOBLE, HAD REQUESTED SOBLE AS A SOVIET ASSIGNMENT TO HELP ALBAN FIND AMERICAN WIFE. SOBLE EXPLAINED ALBAM-S SITUATION TO RAND AND SHE AGREED TO TRY TO ASSIST. HOWEVER, LATER “RAND TOLD SOBLE | ; | ALLINFORN cr eon END PAGE ONE Eyed TD HEREINISUN Hire DATE_2/5/85 PySp.1 TMac/ OB: 7 gf f ia £3 ’ [ to~ gis Oe. E€ eh oy &