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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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ROUTING 1 4 0 2 RP 5 6 3 6 AUG 6 06 14Z 61 ROUTINE IN 49057 DIR CITE MEXI (WARE ACTING) 8593 ## REDCAP 1. ACCORDING AIRLISTS FOLL ARRIVALS 31 JULY VIA AIR FRANCE 707: NIKOLAI SERGEYEVICH LEONOV AND WIFE VALERIYA IVANOVNA. 2. REQUEST HQS PROVIDE TRACES SUBJS ACTIVITIES SINCE DEPARTURE MEXI OCT 1956. 3. ODENVY ADVISED. ## END OF MESSAGE R1 trace reg 10 Aug 61 Ric card typed 10 Aug 61
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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.