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^[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).

References

^ Nigel West (2005). Mask: Mi5's Penetration Of The Communist Party Of Great Britain. ISBN 0-415-35145-6. http://books.google.com/books?id=lR6nuEkieQ8C.

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Name	Purpis, Adam
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Date of birth	14 March 1883
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