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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 -13- HAH: FULYREV, Grigoriy Ivanovich OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALTY: Personnel worker, believed by source to be MGB (KGB) worker POB: Unknown to source POSITION: Chief of Personnel Section of A/O Kabel, JSTA HT: 165 105 ca. WT: c. 75 kg. BUILD: Heavy LAIR: Red with tailCYES: Unknown spot coated over OTHER PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: Long full nose PERSONAL HISTORY: Married EMPLOYMENT; MILITARY RECORD: Worked as chief of a personnel section in a division of USS East Germany prior to coming to Austria during the latter part of 1953. Military record unknown to source. PARTY APPLICATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: Party member; devoted to the Party, strong belief in the Party. REMARKS: Very unpleasant individual BASIS OP INFO: Acquainted through work from January to December 1952 DATE OP INFO: Decenter 1952 NATIONALITY: Russian. OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALITY: Personnel worker (also probably a worker for MCB/KCB) PCD: Unknown POSITION: Assistant to Chief, USIA, for personnel matters HT: c. 170 ca. WP: c. 65 kg. BUILD: Slender HAIR: Blond, bald- EYES: Unknown ing on the sides OTHER PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: None that were outstanding PERSONAL HISTORY: EMPLOYMENT; MILITARY RECORD: Came from Moscow at the end of 1953 or the beginning of 1954; allitary record unknown PARTY AFFILIATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: Active CP member REHARKS: Reputed to be very stupid; generally dialiked by everyone BASIS OP INFO: Acquainted through work. (Source DATS OP INFO: November 1954 met him on only one occasion.)
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