Adam Purpis

Adam Purpis (Russian: Адам Пурпис; sometimes transliterated as "Purpiss"; born 14 March 1883), a Latvian, was a Soviet intelligence agent. Purpis 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.^[1]

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 here).

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