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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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INFORMATION F1, F1/OPS, F1/STC, F1/RCH/D3, CR 2, MH 2, F1/R1 1. FOLLOWING ARRIVED RCLE FROM MOSCOW 9, MAY, TOOK LE PRINEROSE PENSIONE UNTIL 13 MAY BEEN DEPARTED FOR GUAM TO BY SEA TO LEXICO: A. NIKOLAI LECHOV, BORN RIOZAY (PROBABLY RYAZAN) 22 AUGUST 1928, COLLABORATOR SORIET EMBASSY NEXICO CITY, SERVICE PASSPORT C 10724 ISSUED MOSCOW 29 OCT 52. B. VALERIA LECHOVA, BORN MOSCOW 23 APRIL 23, CITY AROVE, SERVICE PASSPORT C 11517 ISSUED MOSCOW 23 FEB 3. 2. SOURCE: DEVIATOR, RECEIVED 19 MAY, 3 3. DATA NOT RECEIVED.
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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.