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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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PERSONAL INFORMATION DATA PHOTO PHOTO NAME LUCIOV, Nikolay Sergeyevich TITLE (Position and country) 3rd Sevyl Employer/2 CEEIGER MEXICO DATE OF ARRIVAL 31 July 1961 PCS QEPARTURE PASSPORT NO. D-18009 Wife: D-18010 DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH 22 August 1928/Ryazan MAILING ADDRESS Pachuca - 153-405 Condesa NAME OF WIFE Valeriya Ivanouma WIFE'S DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH 30 28 April 1928/Ryazan CHILDREN Leu: Irina, b. 62 LANGUAGES Spanish Excellent DESCRIPTION HEIGHT WEIGHT COLOR OF EYES COLOR OF HAIR COMPLEXION IDENTIFYING MARKS OTHER (Include personality, habits, hobbies, vices, etc.) Subject's calling card found in address book of Fidel CASTRO Ruz when latter arrested in Mexi 21 June 1956. Disptch re poss exploitation of Subj with Cuban 26th of Jul Movement. Subj's wife works at Sov. Emb. (capacity unknown, probably tyrist). CAREER 1. See old REDCAP sheet from previous tour of duty Mexi 1953-56. 2. Subj accompanied MIKOYAN entourage to Cuba for the Soviet Exposition February 1960.
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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.