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This Central Intelligence Agency personality file on Soviet official Nikolay Sergeyevich Leonov (201-132139), with material dated 1953 to 1963, compiles cables, FBI documents, surveillance reports, press photos and passport copies. It records his Soviet Embassy service in Mexico City, the finding of his calling card in Fidel Castro's address book in 1956, and his role as Castro's interpreter in the USSR in 1963. A source identified him as a KGB officer, and a DIA item alleged he was planning Latin American insurgency.
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SECRET -3- HAFZ: Mikail Vasilyevich DEGREE OR BANK: NATIONALITY: Russian OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALTY: A commercial specialist DD3: c. 1915 P03: Unknown to source POLITICAL: Chief of the Suppl, and Sales Office of A/O Kabel, USLA HT: c. 120 cm. WT: c. 65 kg. BUILD: Short, HAIN: Light BYES: Unknown to source OTHER PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTIC3: Round "Russian" face. He wears glasses with zeta frame. PERSONAL HISTORY: Married; No graduated from the Academy of Foreign Trade (Akademiya Ynorimay Torgovlit) in Moscow in 1946 or 1947. EMPLOYMENT; HILITARY RECORD: Unknown to source PARTY APPILIATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: CP member; active Communist REFERENCES: BASIS OP IMPO: Acquainted through work. DATE OP IIIPO: December 1954 НАНЬ: BARAEOV, Pecor Nikiforovich DSCREE OR RANK: NATIONALITY: Russian OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALITY: Electrical engineer (Instenor-elektrik) FCD: Unknown POSITION: Deputy Director and Chief Engineer of A/O Kabal, USIA ET: 175-174 cm. VT: c. 93 kg. BUILD: Guito stout EAIR: Blond EYES: Unknown OTHER PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTIC3: Full face PER3GEAL HISTORY: Married EMPLOYMENT; MILITARY RECORD: Prior to coming to Austria in March 1954, he worked as Chief of the Equipment Department of the Chief Directorate of Electrical Machines Building, Ministry of Electrical Industry (Otdal Goorudovaniya, Glavnego Opravleniya Elektromachino - Stroyeniya, Ministerate Elektroprenyashennosti). Military record unknown to sources. PARTY AFFILIATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: CP member, very active Communist RENARDS: A very good engineer; fares before his superiors in an effort to advance himself further. Does not treat subordinates fairly. BASIB OP INFO: Acquainted through work from DATE OP INFO: December 1954 March to December 1954
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