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SUBJECT: Valer iy Vlad imirov ich KOSTIKOV

KOSTIKOV, who was

born

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17

March 1933

in

Moscow, was

ass igned to the Sovie t

Embassy in Mexico City as Vice Consul

on 19 September 1961.

A f luen t Spanish speaker he had

t r a v e l l e d

abroad

a t l e a s t

t h ree

t imes

be fore t h i s permanent

ass ignment ; moreover , in 1959

KOSTIKOV app l i ed

for

a

v i s a to accompany Premier

N i k i t a Sergeye -

vich KHRUSHCHEV s pa r ty to t he

Uni ted

S t a t e s

as

an o f f i c i a l o f

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Sovie t

Minis t ry of Fore ign A ffa i r s but

ve have no r ecord

of

h is having come

to

t h i s

country a t t h a t t ime . KOSTIKOV

s e rv ed as an

i n t e r p r e t e r

a t

i n t e r n a t i o n a l conferences a t Madrid

and Barce lona in

1958 ~ d

1959. I n l a t e

1959

and e a r l y

1960

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a t t ended Sovie t e x h i b i t i o n s

in Mexico City and Havana; he

i s known to have been in Cuba from 6 January to 7 March 1960.

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phys ica l desc r ip t ion

o f

KOSTIKOV q u i t e a ccu r a t e ly f i t s

o f a Sovie t case o f f i c e r

Since

a r r i v in g i n Mexico,

KOSTIKOV i s

known

to have

t r a v e l l e d

t h r ee t imes

out s ide the

c a p i t a l :

In March

1963 and

aga in fo r the

f i r s t two weeks

o f September he

went

to

Ti ju an a

E n s e n ~ d a

and

Mex i ca l i os tens ib ly fo r t he purpose

o f

purchas ing co t ton .

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U.S. Department o f S t a t e however , has r epor ted t h a t dur ing

these

t r i p s

KOSTIKOV met l o c a l

r e p re se n t a t i v e s

o f

Movimento

Libe ra t ion Nat iona l and Cent ra l

Compesina

In d e p e n d i e n t a

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l a rge

Communist f ront

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·. In a d d i t i o n accord ing to

FBI sources KOSTIKOV was accompanied on

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September tr p by

Ivan

Gavri lovich

ALFERYEV, and he

con tac t ed

in Ensenada se v e ra l

persons i nc lud ing

Communist

sympath izers who prev ious ly

bad

been

as s o c i a t ed

with Sovie t

o f f i c i a l s

s t a t i o n e d

in

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ALFERYEV, a PR VD cor responden t

in

Mexico, was

in

c lose

con tac t

with Cuban

diplomats

and l oc a l

Communist

l e a d e r s dur ing

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February 1962

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SUBJECT: Vale r iy Vladimirovich KOSTIKOV

KOSTIKOV,

v ~ h bor,n

.on 17 March

1933

in

Moscow, W as

as s ig n ed t9. .. h e Embassy in Mexico City as Vice Cons u l.

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Premier

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v ie S p a r t y to t he

United Sta t e s

t h e o v i ~ s t r y o

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t h i s

count ry a t t h a t t im

s e r v ed as an i n t e r p r e t e r

a t i n t e r n a t i o n a l conrere

and

Barce lona in 1958 and 1959·

In

l a t e 1959 and

he

a t t e n d e d

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