Ah-ha, got it. Although here, they are called Morinehtar and Romestamo (not Alatar and Pallando as was written in the UT)
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But the other two Istari were sent for a different purpose. Morinehtar and Romestamo. Darkness-slayer and East-helper. Their task was to circumvent Sauron: to bring help to the few tribes of Men that had rebelled from Melkor-worship, to stir-up rebellion...and after his first fall to search out his hiding (in which they failed) and to cause dissension and disarray among the dark East...They must have had very great influence on the history of the Second Age and Third Age in weakening and disarrayinbg the forces of the East, who would both in the Second and Third Age otherwise have, outnumbered the West."~HOME XII: The Peoples of Middle-earth; Last Writings
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You can definitely see the issue here, because supposedly the Istari didn't arrive until the TA, yet here Tolkien says the Blue Wizards were influential in the resistance against Sauron in both the 2nd and 3rd ages. However, this was written in 1972, and probably what CT was referring to in his commentary from the UT:
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I know of no other writings about the Istari save some very rough and in part uninterpretable notes that are certainly much later than any of the foregoing and probably dates from 1972.~Unfinished Tales: The Istari
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Edit: Crossed with Inzil