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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: CRUTKO, Anatoliy Kirilovich DEGREE OR RANK: NATIONALITY: Ukrainian OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALTY: Commercial specialist DOB: c. 1908 PCB: Unknown POSITION: Second Deputy Chief of UFIA, responsible for commercial and financial matters HT: cm.120 cm. WT: c.100 kg. BUILD: Heavy-set HAIR: Blond, brush-EYES: Uncommon cut, slightly receding hairline OTHER PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: Wide shoulders, athletic build, full Ukrainian face PERSONAL HISTORY: Graduate of the Academy of Foreign Trade in Moscow EMPLOYMENT; NILITARY RECORD: Came to USIA in beginning of 1954 from East Germany where he worked for USIG, presumably in a similar capacity; allitary record unknown to source. PARTY AFFILIATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: Active CP member REHARKS: Very competent worker, however very stubborn; well thought of by his superiors BASIS OF INFO: Acquainted through work DATE OF DIFO: December 1954 NAME: ERYLOV. Grigoriy Aleksandrovich DEGREE OR RANK: Engineer OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALITY: Party worker POB: Unknown POSITION: Head of the Soviet Communist organization in USIA HT: c.170 cm. WT: Unknown BUILD: Medium HAIR: Brown EYES: Unknown OTHER PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: None EMPLOYMENT; MILITARY RECORD: Cases from Moscow to Vienna about the end of 1953 or the beginning of 1954; military record unknown PARTY AFFILIATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: Party moaber, devoted Communist BMARKS: None BASIS OF INFO: Acquainted through work
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 165 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.