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NY "e ar a tt Ad ete ade 100=86896 _ ESTHER RAND was attached to. vin Boston. * SOBLE claimed. 7 ESTHER. RAND had told. him‘ 1ittie about her past life;i. - a though. SOBLE admitted ‘that: he knew MSTHER hed. studied” law. SOBLE stated that he did not tell ESTHER of his own past except that he came from “ussia and was an old time CP member. SOBLE recalled that MYRA SOBLE had told him that in 1948 when MYRA applied for a passport, the passport was delayed. MYRA mentioned the delay. to ESTHER and ESTHER told MYRA that there was a lawyer associated with Jewish organizations in Washington who took care of passports for t»e organization and that ‘ESTHER would expedite MYRA's passport through such a lawyer. MYRA also told JACK that ESTHER had told kYRA that tBSTHER had contacted the lawyer, and the lawyer had gone to the passport office and expedited MYRA's passport. MYRA. later received the passport through the mail. MYRA SOBLE will be interviewed concerning this matter, including possibility that lawyer had Soviet connections. JACK SOBLE claims his last meeting with ESTHER was in Paris in 1948, and he did not subsequently meet her in New York. SOBLE stated that recently before arrest, he inquired of ROBERT SOBLE who told him that*ESTHERy was still a patient of ROBERT'S, SOBIE claimed that the last Soviet contact he had withaRATHER RAND was in late 1945, that is a month or two before he last saw CHOUNDENKO. SOBLE reiterated that reports of ESTHER RAND dealt solely with Jewish organizations, Arab - Jewish relations and Mid-East oil concessions. He stated that the reports MISTHER gave to himwere typewritten and about two to four pages in length. Claimed he could not recall the number of such reports. SOBLE denied that he ever took any reports of ESTHER to the Soviets in Europe. SOBLE stated that*ESTHER RAND gave him a copy of "Black Book", which concerned Nazi atrocieties, and on parts of which =STHER claimed to have worked. SOBLE again claimed he. could pot. -now recall the Soviet codename of Renor he name with - wiic hh she signed her reports, though he believed ‘his Sovist . contacts referred to her ast ES THERA. In’ 1949 KOROTKOy.” mentioned “Jewish, Cosmopoliten", . and told SOBLE to stary away from Jews.