Adam Purpis
Male, Deceased Person
1883 –
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Who is Adam Purpis?
Adam Purpis, a Latvian, was a Soviet intelligence agent. He sometimes travelled on a Honduras passport. In the late 1930s, he was head of a front company in Tientsin, the Far Eastern Fur Trading Company.
Arnold Deutsch, the NKVD agent who recruited Kim Philby and ran the Cambridge Four in the mid-1930s, was, at one stage, an assistant to Purpis.
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