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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 -10- NAHZ: LAVRENOV, (fnu) DEORES OR BANK: NATIONALITY: Russian OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALTY: Engineer PCB: Unknown. POSITION: Chief Engineer and First Deputy Chief of USIA ET: c. 1c0 cm. WT: c. 80 kg. BUILD: Short, stoutHAIR: Blond, EYES: Unknown partially bald in front OTHER PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: Wore glasses PERSONAL HISTORY: Unknown EMPLOYMENT; MILITARY RECORD: Worked for USIG in East Germany prior to coming to USIA in earl, part of 1954. Military record unknown PARTY APPILIATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: Very active CP member RENARKS: Had reputation for being a heavy drinker, lazy except in Party work; not very competent in his work BASIS OF INFO: Acquainted through work. (Source DATE OF DIFO: October 1954 actually met him only once.) NATIONALITY: Russian OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALITY: Personnel worker PCB: Unknown POSITION: Deputy Chief of Personnel Section, A/O Kabel, USIA, in charge of personnel matters for Austrian personnel ET: c. 160 cm. WT: c. 60 kg. BUILD: Short, thin HAIR: Dark BYE3: Unknown OTHER PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: None that were outstanding PERSONAL HISTORY: Married EMPLOYMENT; MILITARY RECORD: Had worked in the Soviet Embassy in Poland before coming to Austria in December 1953. Military record unknown. PARTY AFFILIATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: Not an active CP number REHARKS: Believed by source to be a member of the NQB (KQB) BASIS OF INFO: Acquainted through work from January 1954 to December 1954 DATE OF INFO: December 1954
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 165 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.