Henri Curiel

From The Stasi Files

Please remember that this is a fictional account, based on works of fiction

Henri Curiel was the Egyptian uncle of George Blake and helped prepare the ideological acceptance of Blake to communism, before Blake later joined the communist-led Dutch Resistance. George informed his uncle that a local successful merchant, Ahmed Fawzi was spreading rumours that Curiel was a Marxist. Cureil, acting on Blake's information arranged for Fawzi to be then killed and his body dumped in the Nile.

Farouk, King of Egypt and Sudan, put Curiel in jail because of his Moscow connections, then Nasser, President of Egypt put Curiel back in jail, before expelling him for organising Arab revolutionaries. Curiel moved to Paris on his expulsion. In Paris, he was for a short-time Blake contact. In 1961, he was arrested by the French for collaborating with the Algerian FLN guerrillas. Later he was a contact for Carlos and for the Japanese Red Brigade. A right-wing terrorist group called Delta later executed Curiel at his home in Paris.

Curiel's connection to Blake was removed by Soviet moles within SIS, thus giving the erroneous impression that Blake converted to communism during his imprisonment by the North Koreans.

References

ISBN 0583134866 Shadow of Shadows by Ted Allbeury