Rita Arnould (c. 1914 – 20 August 1943) was a housekeeper and courier of the Red Orchestra resistance group in Belgium during World War II.
Soon after reaching Brussels, she married A. M. Arnould, a well-to-do Dutch textile salesman who was over twice her age, and settled into a domestic routine.
Springer established her as his mistress at 101 Rue des Atrébates, where she worked as a housekeeper and courier for two Soviet agents who called themselves Mikhail Makarov whose code name was "Carlos Ala mo"and Zofia Poznańska who operated under the false Belgian identity of "Anna Verlinden".
[3] The Germans detected radio transmissions from the house and a group led by Abwehr Captain Harry Piepe raided it in the small hours of the night of 12–13 December 1941.
[2] The Germans found a hidden room holding the material and equipment needed to produce forged documents, including blank passports, forms, inks, and rubber stamps.
The woman taken with Rita was a Polish Jew named Zofia Poznańska (Zosia) who had been trained in cyphering in Moscow before the war.
[12] David Kamy was tried by a German military court in Belgium, sentenced to death, and executed at Fort Breendonk on 30 April 1943.