Adam Purpis

Adam Purpis (Russian: Адам Пурпис; sometimes transliterated as "Purpiss"; born 14 March 1883), 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 [cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=lR6nuEkieQ8C|title=Mask: Mi5's Penetration Of The Communist Party Of Great Britain|date=2005|isbn=0415351456|author=Nigel West] .

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 (see [http://www.colley.co.uk/garethjones/wostwag/purpiss.htm here] ).

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