'''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 appartusapparatus, which was functioning at the time as an auxilliary auxiliary to [[NKVD|Soviet intellignceintelligence]]. 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]].