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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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POSITION: Chief of USIA Planning Section WT: 170-175 cm. WT: c. 60 kg. BUILD: Thin HAIR: Gray EYES: Unknown OTHER PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: Erect posture; lined face; wore pince-nez EMPLOYMENT; MILITARY RECORD: Worked in GUEDZ in Moscow as planning accountant before coming to Austria about the end of 1953; military record unknown PARTY AFFILIATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: Not a Party number REMARKS: Cultured, intelligent, very competent specialist; gave appearance of an old Russian squire. Dressed very neatly, wore string tie; was generally well-liked DASIS OF INFO: Acquainted through work DATE OF INFO: December 1954 POSITION: Chief of the Labor and Wage Section of A/O Kabel, USIA POSITION: Chief of the Labor and Wage Section of A/O Kabel, USIA BT: c. 170 cm. BT: c. 75 kg. BUILD: Medium HAIR: Gray EYES: Unknown OTHER PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: None that were outstanding PERSONAL HISTORY: Unknown EMPLOYMENT; MILITARY RECORD: Unknown PARTY APPILIATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: A Party aszbar but not an active Communist PENARKS: BASIS OF INFO: Acquainted through work 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 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.