Esther Trebach Rand

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Esther Trebach Rand was an American who worked for United Palestine Appeal and spied on Zionists for the New York KGB office during World War II. Rand was part of the Jack Soble espionage ring.

[edit] Venona

Rand's cover name in Soviet intelligence, and as deciphered by Venona project cryptographers, is AIDA and KLO. She is referenced in the following Venona decrypt:

• 640 KGB New York to Moscow, 6 May 1944
• 1251 KGB New York to Moscow, 2 September 1944

[edit] References

• John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).