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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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Nikolai Sergnyevich LEOION Valeriya Ivanovn LEOIOVA Mroit City B-Doc LIMERICK, LIPSTICK, LIVESTOCK Name: Nikolai Sergeyevich LEONOV Born: 22 August 1928 in Ryazan Arrived in Mexico: 11 July 1953 aboard SS Andrea Gritti, Veraours, with wife Documents: Holds service passport 10724, issued 29 January 1952, in Moscow Title: Unknown Position: Unknown Residence in Mexico: Juanacatlan 81 Wife: Valoriya Ivanova Children: None known. None in Mexico Languages: Spanish good Other personal data: Nickname - KOLYA Occasionally drives one of Embassy automobiles ## Official Activities Our few references to LEONOV make it appear that he, like BELYAKOV and ANTYASOV, with whom he seems to be vaguely associated, is a tird echelon functionary who probably performs a variety of administrative tasks in support of one or another phase of the Embassy operations and might be in on-the-job training for a specialized job as assistant to, at a guess, SMOILOV. In early August, shortly after his arrival, he called a woman instructor at an oicure local business school and was told that he could come by for his grades the following week. (He infer from another conversation that HATVIEV was attending this school with him.) LEONOV was also with ANTYASOV and BELYAKOV when ANTYASOV was detained on their way "back from the University" at the end of September. (See ANTYASOV.) This should indicate that he was principally occupied during the weeks after his arrival in acquainting himself with local business methods and commercial practices, and perhaps taking some further formal instruction. Otherwise, his appearances in the traffic have been limited to answering the telephone for both KOLOMYAKOV and SAMOILOV in their absence (without making decisions or taking any action) and, under the tutelage of LAZAREV before the latter's departure, making routine calls connected with ordering wine, repairing the movie projector, and the like. He has also occasionally been seen driving one or another of the Embassy automobiles, apparently filling in for one of the chauffeurs. ## Private activities Our only information on LEONOV's private life is the fact that the ZHUKOVs moved into the LEONOVs' apartment (No. 4 at Industria No. 71) upon their arrival
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