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vant tena ; : ae pe et es Fagta les * a. * a . eo a te a enn %, SNR AY Att Ge eee ee ee es soot PAGE THREE REGULAR MONEY PAYMENTS TO ESTHER RAND BUT, ACCORDING WITH HER WISHES, - r HE ENTERTAINED HER AT GOOD RESTAURANTS. SOBLE WAS QUESTIONED AS TO WHETHER HE HAD GIVEN RAND GIFTS AND STATED THAT IN ACCORDANCE WITH a DESIRE OF CHOUNDENKO, PROBABLY IN NINETEEN FORTYFIVE, HE GAVE “RAND A g GOLD WATCH. SOBLE SAID THE WATCH WAS AN AMERICAN MADE WATCH, : PURCHASED BY THE SOVIETS, GIVEN TO HIM BY CHOUNDENKO, AND PASSED BY oh HIM TO RAND. SOBLE SAID HE VISITED RAND> -S°- HOME ON FOURTH STREET, NYC, ON ONE OCCASION WHEN HE WAS STILL KNOW TO-RAND AS SAM AND MET hag “4 JACK RAND THERE. HOWEVER, JACK RAND DID NOT STAY DURING HIS MEETING 3 WITH "ESTHER RANDS-RAND KNEW THAT HE WAS FROM SOVIETS AND WAS INTRODUCE oS TO JACK RAND AS SAM. SOBLE RECALLED THAT AFTER THE WAR WAS OVER, ALFRED STERN WISHED TO BE PUT IN TOUCH WITH THE’ COMMUNIST PARTY. SOBLE SAID HE INTRODUCED RAND TO ALFRED STERN AND LATER LEARNED THAT = RAND HAD INTRODUCED STERN TO A COMMUNIST PARTY FUNCTIONARY. SOBLE " CALIMED THAT HE DID NOT KNOW THE IDENTITY OF THIS CP FUNCTIONARY. : SUBSEQUENT TO HIS LAST CLAIMED CONTACT WITH CHOUNDENKO, WHICH HE - ‘ PLACES IN LATE NINETEEN FORTYFIVE, HE DISCLOSED TO THE RANDS HIS IDENTITY AND THEREAFTER, THEY HAD QUOTE SOCIAL MEETINGS UNQUOTE. END PAGE THREE : %