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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.
NAME: AMAYLOV, Ivan Stnapovich DEGREE OR RANK: NATIONALITY: Russian DOB: c. 1903 OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALTY: Electrical engineer (Inshoner-elektrik) POB: Unknown POSITION: General Director of Siemens Schukert II, plant subordinate to A/O Label, USIA HT: c. 165 cm. NT: c. 60 kg. BUILD: Thin HAIR: Light EYES: Unknown OTHER PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: None that were outstanding PERSONAL HISTORY: Unknown EMPLOYMENT; HILITARY RECORD: Worked as a plant director for USIG in East Germany before Austria in July 1954. Military record unknown PARTY APPILIATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: An active CP member RENARIES: A scoundrel, very impucient to equals and suordinates; typical careerist BASIS OP INFO: Acquainted through work DATE OF INFO: December 1954 NAME: ERUPNOV, Aleksandr Ivanovich OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALITY: Unknown POSITION: General Director of the Brown Boveri plant subordinate to A/O Kabel, USIA HT: c.168 cm. WT: c.75 kg. BUILD: Medium HAIR: Dark EYES: Unknown OTHER PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: None that were outstanding. PERSONAL HISTORY: Unknown EMPLOYMENT; MILITARY RECORD: Unknown PARTY APPILIATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: An active CP member REPLAICS: A big careerist who has no convictions. He would work as readily for any party that happened to be in power. BASIS OP DIFO: Acquainted through work since DATE OF DIFO: December 1954 January 1953, when source came to Austria.
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