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at Père Lachaise ]] EGYPT Born in Cairo to a Jewish family of Italian origins, he was the cousin of Eugenio Curiel , Physicist and Anti-fascist militant murdered in Italy in 1945 . He was also the uncle of the famous British KGB spy George Blake . Henri Curiel founded in 1943 the Egyptian Movement for National Liberation (HAMETU), which became in 1947 the Democratic Movement for National Liberation (HADETU). Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War , he was repeatedly arrested and, despite his Egyptian citizenship, forced to emigrate in 1950 . He established himself in France and led with a circle of Jewish communist emigres from Egypt a structure known as the "Rome Group". AN ANTICOLONIALIST ACTIVIST Henri Curiel worked for the Jeanson Network which supported the Front De Libération Nationale (FLN) during the Algerian War (1954-62). He was arrested by the French Security Services in 1960 . Curiel was then one of the founders of "Solidarité", a support group for various anticolonial and opposition movements in the Third World (in particular Africa and Latin America), such as the African National Congress (ANC). In 1976 , Henri Curiel initiated contacts with Israeli and Palestinian representatives willing to negotiate a mutual recognition. Several meetings were organized including among others Issam Sartawi , adviser to Yasser Arafat , and Uri Avnery and Mattityahu Peled , members of the Israeli Council For Israeli-Palestinian Peace (ICIPP). On June 21, 1976, '', April 1998 / . ASSASSINATION ON MAY 4, 1978 Henri Curiel was assassinated in Paris on May 4, 1978 . A far-right group claimed responsibility, but the case is still unsolved. Speculations persist in three directions:
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