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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 the Planning Section of A/G Kabel, USIA OTHER PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: Full face, occasionally wears dark horn-rimmed glasses, inside and on dark days, and has another pair of glasses for reading PERSONAL HISTORY: Divorced EMPLOYMENT; MILITARY RECORD: Worked in the Ministry of State Control in Moscow prior to coming to Austria. He lost a job in this organization along with many others as a result of large personnel cuts invoked by government in this and other organizations. He came to Austria in January 1934. Military record unknown. PARTY APPILIATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: An active and loyal CP member REMARKS: Acted like a lord (borin). He was used to command people all his life and did not like to work himself. BASIS OP INFO: Acquainted through work from DATE OP INFO: December 1954 January to December 1954 EMPLOYMENT; MILITARY RECORD: Assistant to Veeilly Nikitich SEMIN, Chief of Planning Section of A/O Kabel PARTY AFFILIATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION: Unknown
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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.