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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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51 KULAZHENIKOV, CHERKASOV, and POP07 and their wives were invited to attend a reception on Friday, 29 September at the Lebanese Legation in honor of the Lebanese Ambassador to Washington, D.C., who was passing through Mexico. The Soviet Charge d'Affaires also accepted an invitation for dinner at the Lebanese Legation on 29 September at 8:00 p.m. On 19 September ROMA.OV made arrangements to call on Dr. Guillermo de ASSA (ph) of the Cultural Committee of the Organization of American States, who had recently been home to Argentina. ROMA.OV mentioned that he had also spent three months away from Mexico on vacation in the Soviet Union. 7. Felice STERN (ph) of the British Embassy contacted GILKASOV on 19 September concerning plans for a luncheon and some table tennis games on Saturday, 22 September at 1:00 p.m. Since she could only seat ten persons and there would be five from the British Embassy, she would like to invite five of the Soviets. They decided on the Ambassador, GILKASOV, ANKESOV and his wife, and GILOTOV and his wife. However, since that added up to too many guests, GILKASOV agreed to let her know exactly the following day, and added that since he played table tennis badly, he would serve as referee. 8. On 21 September J. K. Ganju of the Indian Embassy congratulated KAZANTSEV on his promotion (see section on Personnel) and asked about the chart which the Soviet geologist delegates had distributed at the cocktail party at the Embassy. Part of the chart received by the Indians was missing and they would like another copy. KAZANTSEV said that all but six or eight of the delegates had returned and the rest were visiting in Yucatan. He would try to get another copy, but if he could not, he was sure the Indian delegates could get it through the Soviet delegate at New Delhi. Olavi K. MURTO, Charge d'Affaires of the Finnish Legation and his wife, accepted an invitation to a reception at the Soviet Embassy on 27 September. ## CULTURAL AND PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES: ## 4. Relations with Cultural Institutes: 1. Instituto Mexicano Bellas/Artes a. On 12 September Luis SANCELZ Arriola of Bellas Artes invited Vladimir KAHASYUKSVICH, Second Secretary, and Boris P.
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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.