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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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NAME: CLADKIY, Forgey Vasilyovich DEGREE OR RANK: OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALTY: Mechanical engineer (Inverter-mekhanik) POB: Unknown POSITION: General Director of A/O Kabel, USIA HT: 173-175 ca. WT: c. 05 kg. BUILD: Stout HAIR: Dark. ulond. EYES: Unknown partially tald PERSONAL HISTORY: Married EMPLOYMENT; HILITARY RECORD: Prior to World War II worked as a plant director in Leningrad. After the war he worked in East Germany as director of a UFIG plant. Came to Austria in January or February, 1954. Source had no information about his military record. PARTY AFFILIATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: CP leader, devoted Communist to point of faraticism REMARKS: Very dull person, rough, uncultured, poorly educated. Speaks Russian like a country muzhik. BASIS OP INFO: Acquainted through work from DATE OP INFO: December 1954 January or Feuruary - December 1954 OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALITY: Unknown PQB: Unknown T: c. 175 cm. WT: c. 65 kg. BUILD: Thin HAIR: Thick, blackEYES: Unknown OTHER PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: Wore glasses for reading EMPLOYMENT; MILITARY RECORD: Came to USIA from Moscow at the end of 1953; military record unknown ARTY AFFILIATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: CP member, active Communist ARTY AFFILIATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: CP member, active Communist SMARKS: A very competent chief, had reputation of being honest and fair; intelligent, was generally quiet, never shouted at subordinates. ASIS OF INFO: Acquainted through work DATE OF INFO: December 1954
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