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'''Rose Isaak''' was an American citizen who served as the Executive Secretary of the American-Russian Institute, an organization run by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, which was a [[Glossary of espionage terms#Fronts and cutouts|front organization]] for Soviet [[espionage]] during [[World War II]].  Isaak was a close associate of [[Louise Bransten]], the CPUSA and Soviet operative who was the mistress of San Francisco [[KGB]] ''[[Rezident]]'' [[Grigory Kheifets]].  Isaak continued working with the American-Russian Institute up to the late 1950s.

==References==
*''Comintern Apparatus Summary Report,'' 15 December 1944, FBI Comintern Apparatus file (FBI file 100-203581).
* Venona 294 KGB San Francisco to Moscow, 31 May 1945.
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pg. 233.






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