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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.
DATE ROUTING 1 4 2 5 05 OCT 56 SECRET TO : DIRECTOR FROM : MEXICO CITY IN 34844 ACTION: LH 5 INFO : COP, CI, CI/OPS, FI, FI/OPS, FI/RI 2, SR 3, S/C 2 2. GROUP DEPARTING MEXI 17 OCT BY RAIL, ENTERING U.S. VIA LAREDO; DEPARTING NEW YORK 24 OCT ON QUEEN ELIZABETH. SOURCE: VISA SECTION, EMBASSY; DOC. DISSEM: ODENVY, KUBARK.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 165 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.