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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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## SECRET KOLOMYAKOV, Attacke in the Cultural Office, to a cocktail party being given at the Palacio de Ballas Artes that same day in honor of Maestro (fnu) HERERA de la ronte who was leaving for Europe. SANCHEZ apologized for not having been able to notify them sooner, but stated that he had been sick. He informed MASYUKVICH that Jas. PANALOWSKI, cultural Attacca of the Polish Legation, was going to attend and that he thought that it would be very interesting for the people from the Soviet Embassy to speak with the people that were going to be there. MASYUKVICH promised he would do everything possible to be there. On 13 September SANGHEZ Arriola apologized to KASYUKEVICH for not having come that morning and said he had been with KOLCYAKOV the night before. KASYUKEVICH was aware of this and said arrangements had been made. SANGHEZ inquired about some pictures, but KOLCYAKOV knew nothing about them and was leaving next day for San Luis Potosi, so KASYUKEVICH would talk to him about it later. 6. Arrangements were made for the Ambassador to see Miguel ALVARIZ Acosta, Director of Bellas Artes, at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, 24 September. IIICR (Mexican-Russian Institute for Cultural Interchange) KOLCYAKOV contacted the IIGR-on 13 September and told Tomas CHAVEZ Borado that it would not be necessary for the Institute to send over an operator and projector as they had been able to obtain a 35mm copy of the film they were going to show. On 25 September the president of the Sociedad de Guerrerense contacted the Soviet Embassy and requested some motion pictures to take on a cultural tour through his state of Guerrero. He was referred to the ICMR as the films were not kept at the Embassy. Ignacio MARQUEZ Rodfiles, prominent Mexican leftist in education and artistic circles, informed KOLOMYAKOV on 7 September that he had received at the Conite del Trece a letter from the Soviet Painters' Federation or Union, and would like to talk to KOLOMYAKOV concerning it, because it was related to a plan which they had already taken up at the Embassy about Mexican cultural relations. An exposition of Mexican paintings would be ready to leave China around the end of November and they must decide whether it would return to Mexico, or whether SECRET
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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.