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'''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 its underground secret appartus, which was functioning at the time as an auxilliary to [[NKVD|Soviet intellignce]]. In August 1943, Colloms 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 closely associated with [[Jacob Epstein (spy)|Jacob Epstein]] and [[Ruth Wilson]], a husband and wife working for Soviet intelligence in [[Mexico City]].

==Venona traffic==
Several decrypted Venona messages reveal that both [[Lydia Altschuler]] and Anna Colloms had been used extensively as mail drops for KGB operations throughout Latin America. Colloms is referenced in the following [[Venona project]] decrypts:

*[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/14_Mar_1944_R4_m1_p1.gif 193–194 Mexico City to Moscow, 14 March 1944. pg.1]
*[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/14_Mar_1944_R4_m1_p2.gif 193–194 Mexico City to Moscow, 14 March 1944. pg.2]
*[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/14_Mar_1944_R4_m1_p3.gif 193–194 Mexico City to Moscow, 14 March 1944. pg.3]
*[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/14_Mar_1944_R4_m1_p4.gif 193–194 Mexico City to Moscow, 14 March 1944. pg.4]
*[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/14_Mar_1944_R4_m1_p5.gif 193–194 Mexico City to Moscow, 14 March 1944. pg.5]

==Reference==
*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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−	'''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 its underground secret ~~appartus~~, which was functioning at the time as an ~~auxilliary~~ to [[NKVD\|Soviet ~~intellignce~~]]. In August 1943, Colloms 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.	+	'''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 its underground secret apparatus, which was functioning at the time as an auxiliary to [[NKVD\|Soviet intelligence]]. In August 1943, Colloms 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 closely associated with [[Jacob Epstein (spy)\|Jacob Epstein]] and [[Ruth Wilson]], a husband and wife working for Soviet intelligence in [[Mexico City]].		Colloms was closely associated with [[Jacob Epstein (spy)\|Jacob Epstein]] and [[Ruth Wilson]], a husband and wife working for Soviet intelligence in [[Mexico City]].

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 *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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 *[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/14_Mar_1944_R4_m1_p5.gif 193–194 Mexico City to Moscow, 14 March 1944. pg.5]
-==Reference==
+==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