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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.
RANK: CACHKOV, Sergey Nikolayevich DECLARE OR RANK: NATIONALITY: Russian OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALTY: Electrical engineer (Inshonar-alektrik) POB: Unknown POSITION: General Director of Sievers Schukert I, plant subordinate to A/O Label, [B]1 HT: c. 1.5 ca. WT: c. 65 kg. BUILD: Thin HAIR: Light EYES: Unknown OTHER PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: None PERSONAL HISTORY: Unknown EMPLOYMENT; MILITARY RECORD: Was formerly Chief of Personnel Section of A/O Kabel but was transferred to present position. PARTY APPILIATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: Not a Party monitor REMARKS: Good engineer, honest, and a thorough worker. Was frequently ill with some sort of stomach ailment. BASIS OP INFO: Acquainted through work DATE OF INFO; December 1954 NAME: FELOSENKO, (fnu) NATIONALITY: Russian POSITION: Member of Production Section of A/O Kabel, USIA HT: c. 160 cm. WT: BUILD: Medium HAIR: Thick, red EYES: Unknown OTHER PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: Full Russian face; wears reading glasses PERSONAL HISTORY: Unknown EMPLOYMENT; MILITARY RECORD: Unknown PARTY APPILIATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: Unknown REMARKS: DASIS OP INFO: Acquainted through work DATE OP INFO: 1954
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