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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 USSR ADDRESS NAME: LEONOV, Nikolay Seregievich OFFICE ADDRESS ALIAS OR CRYPTOYN HOME ADDRESS TITLE: Administrative Employee, Embassy INCOME DATE OF ARRIVAL: 25 May 1953 Date of Departure: 170et 56- HEIGHT PHOTO EYES HAIR COMPLEXION DATE OF BIRTH: 22 August 1928 BIRTHPLACE: Ryazan FAMILY: Wife: Valeriya Ivanovna, born 28 April 1928 Ryazan DOCUMENTATION Service PP 10724 issued 29 October 1952 Wife's 11507 issued 28 February 1953 LANGUAGES: Spanish (good) PREVIOUS CAREER AND EDUCATION Prior January 1950: One Nikolay Alekseyevich LEONOV, mechanic, arrived India. Description: 5'5", fair complexion, brown hair & eyes, previously ALTORG employee U.S. from 1947 to Oct 48 (NELA 6701). One N. L. LEONOV private secretary to Ambassador in India (ZID 38). 8 October 1951: Above LEONOV arrived Italy from India (NIR 258) en route USSR. PERSONALITY (Habits, use of money, hobbies, literature, vices)
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