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Henri Curiel was born on 13 September, 1914 in Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt, is a Jewish-Egyptian communist (1914–1978). Discover Henri Curiel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

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Occupation miscellaneous
Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 13 September 1914
Birthday 13 September
Birthplace Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt
Date of death 4 May, 1978
Died Place Paris, France
Nationality Egypt

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1914

Henri Curiel (13 September 1914 – 4 May 1978) was a left-wing political activist in Egypt and France.

1935

He became an Egyptian citizen in 1935.

His brother Raoul Curiel became a respected archaeologist and numismatist, specializing in Central Asian studies.

1939

In 1939 Curiel, his brother Raoul and Georges Henein launched Don Quichotte, a French language Communist weekly.

1943

In 1943 he founded the communist Egyptian Movement for National Liberation (HAMETU) which in 1947 became the Democratic Movement for National Liberation (HADETU).

He was repeatedly arrested, along with many other communists.

1945

A cousin was Eugenio Curiel, a physicist and anti-fascist militant who was murdered in Italy in 1945.

Another cousin was the noted British KGB spy George Blake.

1948

His son is the French journalist Alain Gresh, who was born in Cairo in 1948 and grew up in Paris.

1950

Born in Egypt, Curiel led the communist Democratic Movement for National Liberation until he was expelled from the country in 1950.

Settling in France, Curiel aided the Algerian Front de Libération Nationale and other national liberation causes, including in South Africa and Latin America.

Despite his Egyptian citizenship, he was forced to emigrate in 1950.

Allbeury takes at face value the assertions of Curiel having been a KGB agent, and assumes that for some time in the 1950s Curiel was Blake's KGB contact – for which there is no historical proof of any kind.

1952

The Democratic Movement for National Liberation was an active participant in the 1952 revolution led by the free officers and Gamal Abdel Nasser.

The revolutionary council and the free officers had many members from HADETU; the most eminent of these were Khaled Mohy el din, Yousef Sedeek and Ahmed Hamroush.

Curiel settled in France and led a circle of Jewish communist emigres from Egypt known as the "Rome Group".

1954

Curiel worked for the Jeanson network which supported the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) during the Algerian War (1954–62).

1960

He was arrested by the French security services in 1960.

Curiel was a founder of "Solidarité", a support group for various anti-colonial and opposition movements in the Third World (in particular Africa and Latin America), such as the African National Congress (ANC).

It was during this time that he became a liaison to Swiss neo-Nazi Francois Genoud.

1976

In 1976 he initiated contacts with Israeli and Palestinian representatives willing to negotiate a mutual recognition.

Several meetings, later known as the "Paris talks", were organized.

Under the chairmanship of Pierre Mendès France, they included Issam Sartawi, adviser to Yasser Arafat; and Uri Avnery and Mattityahu Peled, members of the Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (ICIPP).

On 21 June 1976, Georges Suffert published an article in Le Point reporting Curiel as the "head of the terrorist support network", connected with the KGB.

He was put under house arrest in Digne, an administrative measure that was lifted once the accusation was demonstrated to be untrue.

1978

In 1978 Curiel was assassinated in Paris; his murderer has never been identified.

Curiel was born in Cairo to an Italian Sephardic Jewish family.

Henri Curiel was assassinated in Paris on 4 May 1978.

Two far-right groups (OAS and the Charles Martel Group) claimed responsibility, but the case is still unsolved.

Police and journalistic investigations suggest other suspects:

Henri Curiel is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.

1980

Curiel's work in promoting dialogue between the PLO and left-wing Israelis was continued throughout the 1980s by the Comité Palestine et Israël Vivront, headed by Sorbonne lecturer Joyce Blau – Curiel's close associate and fellow Egyptian exile.

1981

An American CIA report from 1981 (a Special National Intelligence Estimate) said that Curiel's organization "has provided support to a wide variety of Third World leftist revolutionary organizations", including "false documents, financial aid, and safehaven before and after operations, as well as some illegal training in France in weapons and explosives."

The authors further comment that his group's "association with non-communist and nonviolent leaders, including clergymen, has tended to cloak the nature and extent of its operations."

1982

Henri Curiel appears in several parts of the 1982 spy thriller Shadow of Shadows by Ted Allbeury, whose plot is focused on George Blake.

1991

In an interview with Jean Lesieur, published in the French magazine L'Express on 21 Feb 1991, the latter said that the older Curiel had been influential as a communist in shaping his political views, as Blake met him as a teenager.