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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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## TOP SECRET Phone - None Known Arrived in Mexico 8 July 1955, accompanied by wife Lyudnilla, and daughter Iatalia, age unknown. (1) KOTOVA, Valentina Ivanovna, Secretary-Typist since December 1954, does not work full time here (believed that commercial office has a branch in the Embassy and that KOTOVA works there too). (2) PAPORO7A, Galina Petrovna, part time translator (Spanish?), since May or June 1955. Passport - Residence - Nuevo Leon 138-6 Phone - 11-35-67 Arrived April 1954 with husband and son Sergei age three (S) (husband is diplomat - 2nd Secretary, Cultural Attache). SANDILLOV, Mikhail Kuznich, was Commercial Officer from November 1949 to 14 November 1954, part of the time under Commercial Counsellor KUDIN, since departed. MAYEVSKI, Aleksei Danilovich, went through a break-in period in administrative and operational routines from March 1954, in September 1954, with SAYOILOV still nominally in charge. BOLSHAKOV, Leonid Ivanovich, appeared in September 1954, and also went through a similar break-in period until 14 November 1954, when SAMOILOV left. From 14 November 1954, to date, BOLSHAKOV has been in complete charge of the Commercial Office. The main efforts of the Soviet Commercial Office as evidenced by its past and current activities are as follows: (b) Establishment of important economic and financial contacts in the Mexican government.
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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.