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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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DOCUMENT TRANSFER AND CROSS REFERENCE ## LEONOV, NIKCLAY SERGEYEVICH /201-132139/ NIKOLAY SERGEYEVICH LEONOV /201-132139/ STATIONED MOUNTED LIEMBRACE SURVEILLANCE FOR EVENTUALITY HE MIGHT MAKE LAST MINUTE CLANDESTINE MEETS. MEXI EFFORTS PAID OFF IN THAT TEAM ABLE SPOT OVIOUS CLANDESTINE HALF HOUR MEET EVE 19 APR. TEAM TAILED MEXICAN CONTACT WHOM STATION HAS NOW IDENTIFIED AS LORENZO CARDENAS BARAJAS, CIT MEXICO. FOR INFO CARDENAS, DIRECT HQS ATTENTION LINLUCK TRAFFIC MEXI 0545 ON 11 APR 62, MEXI 0563, 0698, 0827, 0873, AND ALSO OTHER MEXI REPORTING RE CARDENAS. LIEMBRACE SURVEILLANCE LEONOV 20 APR DROPPED DURING LATE AFTERNOON AFTER LEONOV MADE OBVIOUS EFFORTS DETERMINE IF HE UNDER SURVEILLANCE. INTERESTING NOT E THAT LEONOV WAS THEN DRIVING AROUND SAME AREA WHERE HAD CLANDESTINE MEET PREVIOUS EVE. TEAM BELIEVES LEONOV DID NOT DETECT THEIR PRESENCE. ACCORDING LATEST LIEONOV INFO, APPEARS LIKELY LEONOV RETURNING MEXI AFTER HOME LEAVE, USSR. STATION FILES REFLECT THAT BASIS LINLUCK INFO, MEXI ADVISED LITEMPOS DURING APRIL 1962 THAT CARDENAS INVOLVED SMUGGLING ARMS GUAT, APR 63 MEXI LITEMPO PROVIDED FOLL INFO CARDENAS- ENROLLED MILITARY COLLEGE.
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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.