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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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## (EMPLOYEE) LEONOV, Nikolai Sergjevich (P=2009) Kickname: KOLYA "Collaborator" = Employee Arrived in Mexico: 11 July 1953—Veracruz (met by BELYAKOV) Departing by rail 18 Oct 56 for NY and then on Queen Elizabeth 24 Oct. 56 (FKG — ship manifest: Arrived 19 Jun 53 (11 July believed correct) aboard Andrea Gritti. LEONOV carrying DIP PP #10724 issued Moscow 29 Jan 52. PP # also differs from LIVESTOCK #136693 above) SV VISA (USSR) # 136693 Residence: cor Zitacuaro and Juanacatlan a/o 27nov53-Liquation - Jencaecelan 81 Wife: ValerigaIvanova *address - 21 Feb 54 - 3221: Cuautla 161-9 Description: born 22 AUG 28, RYAZAN Height: 170 cms Weight: other: Build: Hair: blond Eyes: blue Languages: Spanish good (Follicove jan54) English(13372,21 Sept.56) French (Visa section) Skills: 6 Feb 54 - seen driving Black Fuckard (#65) - ess (he was driving up Gutenberg tourrd Molchor Ocampo - at 6:00 p.m. he was near that corner. a woman was in the back seat.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 165 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.