Leonov, Nikolay Sergeyevich, 201-132139

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# SECRET

# FIELD INFORMATION REPORT

Activities of the Soviet Embassy DATE OF INFO: 1211 October 1956 Mexico City, October 1956.

PLACE ACQUIRED: Mexico City

DATE ACQUIRED: 1-31 October 1956

DATE OF REPORT: 5 December 1956

SOURCE, SOURCE EVALUATION, APPRAISAL OF CONTENTS Source having access to Soviet dipl. circles in Mexico.

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The following information on the activities of the Soviet Embassy in Mexico was developed during the month of October 1952. Separate reports will be furnished on the Commercial and on Cultural and Propaganda Activities of the Embassy. References made below to the visiting Soviet musicians will be detailed in a special report concerning the activities of the musicians while in Mexico.

1. On 1 October the secretary of Alfonso MONTEGROD Diaz, Private Secretary to Foreign Minister Luis PADILLA Servo, preferred with Leonid KAZOV, Third Secretary of the Soviet Embassy, about a dinner being given by the Embassy the following evening. Soviet Ambassador Anatoliy O. KULKOVOV invited him and the His wife to attend a piano concert with him after the dinner. On 3 October KULKOVOV informed Servo that he was very disgrassed about what had happened the previous evening, but he had had a meeting with PADILLA Servo and had not gotten cut until 8:30 p.m. He had not known whether to go to the Embassy or to the concert, and asked that Servo excuse him with the Ambassador.

2. The private secretary of Jose CORDIZZA, Sub-Secretary of Foreign Affairs, left a message at the Soviet Embassy on 3 October indicating he would be unable to accompany the Ambassador to the concert by a Soviet violinist that evening, as he had to attend a special dinner. However, CORDIZZA had apparently accompanied the Ambassador to a piano concert the previous evening.

PCOM NO.

9 NOV 38 51-58 PREVIOUS EDITIONS MAY BE USED.