Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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Washington at the same time.) At one point KOVALEV referred to SOKOLOV as his "chief." SOKOLOV interjected that he was leaving Mexico "sometime this year" and wanted to brush up on his English in preparation for the 4th year English proficiency test he would have to take when he returned to the USSR. Subject said that on the whole, he got the impression that KOVALEV was replacing SOKOLOV. A schedule of two classes a week, from 1800-1930 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, was agreed upon. One of the two Soviets mentioned that the funds for their lessons would come out of the military department.1715-1830 - SOKOLOV and KOVALEV asked when Subject would suggest they have their first lesson, and Subject replied that since KAZANTSEV was away, they might as well begin immediately. The Soviets readily agreed. Subject described KOVALEV's English as good. His grammar is a little better than KAZANTSEV's, but he is not quite as fluent as KAZANTSEY. SOKOLOV's English is *fair*, but he is decidedly behind KOVALEV and KAZANTSEV in both grammar and fluency. Nevertheless, Subject feels SOKOLOV is good enough to be in the same class as KOVALEV.8 June1530-1700 - BEDRIN, GONCHARENKO, ROMANCHENKO.1700-1830 - KOVALEV and SOKOLOV.13 June1530-1700 - BEDRIN, GONCHARENKO, ROMANCHENKO.1700-1830 - KOVALEV and SOKOLOV.15 June1520-1700 - Subject arrived at the Embassy early. BEDRIN came into the Reception Room about 1520 and took Subject to the classroom (in which there has always been a TV set). Three of the guards were sitting around the TV watching the Salazar fight when Subject and BEDRIN entered. GONCHARENKO
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came in about 1530 and ROMANCHENKO about 1540. All watched the fight until it ended about 1550, after which the class began.1700-1830 -- KOVALEV and SOKOLOV.20 June1530-1700 -- BEDRIN, GONCHARENKO, ROMANCHENKO.1700-1800 -- KAZANTSEV. KAZANTSEV began talking about his trip on his own initiative. He said he left Mexico City on 30 May and arrived in Moscow on 3 June. (He did not say when he returned to Mexico.) He gave no reason for the trip, but said he had "several conferences and meetings" in Moscow. Subject interjected that he thought the trip might have had something to do with the Middle East crisis, since it broke out just about the time KAZANTSEV left. KAZANTSEV laughed spontaneously at this idea and replied that what he knew about the Middle East wouldn't do anyone any good. He then went on to say he had spent his first weekend in Moscow with his son, who shortly thereafter left for his summer job in "Siberia." He said he spent the second weekend (10-11 June) with his daughter. The daughter, according to KAZANTSEV, had planned to go "south" for a 2-3 week vacation in early June, but postponed the vacation when she learned her father was coming. (The implication, according to Subject, was that KAZANTSEV's trip came about fairly suddenly.) What KAZANTSEV was most interested in talking about, however, was the fact he had unexpectedly had had to take his English proficiency test in Moscow. He consequently set aside the last three days of his stay for the test, which can often take that long. The first day is taken up by an oral test, and if one passes that, he goes on to the written test, which can take up to two days. KAZANTSEV, however, did so well on the oral test that he was exempted from the written test. He said his examiners gave him a "4" (on a 1-5 scale) and would have given him a "5" except for the fact he hadn't read any books in English since his last test. One is supposed to read four or five books a year in English, according
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to KAZANTSSY. In any event, KAZANTSEV was very happy with the outcome and with Subject's work in preparing him for the test. In fact, he said that although he had originally started taking lessons from Subject only to prepare for the test, he was so satisfied with his progress that he intended to stay on with Subject despite the fact the test was behind him.1500-1930 - KOVALSV and SOKOLOV.22 June1530-1700 KAZANTSEV took the first hour and a half. He merely said BEDRE, CONCHARSKO, and ROMANCHENKO would not attend class that day.1700-1530-- KOVALEV and SOKOLIN.3. KOLEV and SOKOROY. SOKOLOV is the more simpatico of the two. While KOVALEV can be very pleasant, he seems to have an antagonistic strain and occasionally challenges Subject's teaching with: "That isn't the way we do it in our courses," etc. Sometimes, in fact, the disputes on methods, points of grammar, etc. have become rather heated. On these occasions, SOKOLOV has, usually stepped in more or less on Subject's side and cooled things off. At their second meeting, KOVALEV asked Subject directly what his views were on the Middle East crisis, Subject türned the question back on KOVALEV by saying he would frankly be more interested in KOVALEVIS ideas, as he was sure KOVALEV was much better informed about the situation than he. KOVALEV backed away this time, claiming he dian't have much information either, but at a later class both he and SOKOLOV parroted the Soviet line about the crisis--Israel was the aggressor, etc. On another occasion when the Middle East was again the topic, Subject referred to (what he recalled as) President Truman's post-World War II proposal to internationalize both the Suez and Panama canals. KOVALEV immediately objected to this idea, although he gave no indication of ever having thought about it before.
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4. KOVALEZ. Subject said he mentioned KOVALEV and SOKOLOV to his wife, and she immediately recalled KOVALEY as one of her students at the Nextcin-North Aclean Institute back in the late 50's or early 60's.. She told Subject that he had been frienily with a number of people at the Institute (students and teachers). One of these, she recalled, was Bill CASTELAZO, a U.S. citizen who then and still teaches English and Spanish at the Instituto. CASTELAZO is about 35. He vis Arong 24 20-25 persons who? or 8 years ago studied Russian at the Institute when it was tought for a brief time by a Russian woman. go Subject's wife told Subject that KOVALEV and CASTELAZO had been very friendly and that KOVALEV had invited him to the Soviet Embassy at least twice. CASTELAZO told Subject's wife that after one of his visits to the Soviet Embassy, he was approached by somoone from the American Embassy and asked to inform on the Soviets. CASTALAZO said he was repelled by the idea of being a n informer and implied that he hadn't cooperated with the American. Subject said he had not known about CASTELAZO's acquaintance with KOVALEV, but had known that CASTELAZO had studied Russian and had had him to his apartment along with ROMANCHENKO, BEDRIN, and CONCHARENKO for his 1 July 1966 DeAron Dominion Day party.5. Subject subsequently mentioned to KOVALEV that his wife remembered having him as a student during his previous tour. Subject also remarked that his wife had mentioned that KOVALEV and his (Subject's) friend CASTELAZO had been friends. KOVALEV replied without any embarrassment that he didn't remember Subject's wifo, but did remember CASTELÁZO. KOVALEV asked Subject to give CASTELAZO his rogards the next time he saw him.6. Other than a 1960 reference to "Guillermo CASTELAZO" as a 20-93 year old teacher at the Mexican-North American Institute and an author of one of the Institute's text books, there are no Station traces on
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the Cistalizo in question. (See 50-6-55/3. CR of 13 Sept. 190.)7. LOGIHOY. When Subject was leaving the ambassy on 15 Jane (about 1835), he met ACGIHOV in front of the Reception Room. They talked, chiefly about sports for about 15 minutes. LOGICO said skiing and speed skating were two of his favorite sports, and that his greatest sporting interest in Mexico was playing tennis. Subject said that LOGINOV seemed to be an avid sportsman. LOGINOV said that he was going to Moscow on vacation toward the end of July. No reference was made to Subject teaching LOGOV's son English when the LOGINOVS return from vacation, but Subject assumes this is still LOGI:OV's wish.8. Subject to Rendermans Make Tapes At Pasay Prior to Class. At one of their classes after KAZANTSEV's return from Moscow, Subject and KAZANTSEV discussed Subject's making tapes for use in connection with his three Engassy classes. It was agreed that Subject would come to the Embassy half an hour or so early once a week to make the tapes. He was to begin on 27 June (the day of our meeting). Subject did not yet know where he was to do the recording, whether he would be left alone, "etc.9. Subject said he was considering having another Dominion Day Party on 1 July to which he would invite his Soviet students. I encouraged the lde: and told him I'd pick up the tab.10. The week of 19 June the wife of President DIAZ Ordas called the Director of the Instituto Irlandes and asked if he could recommend a tutor for a nephew of hers. The director replied that the Instituto had a good- English teacher and that although he was very busy, he would ask him if he would be willing to take on the nephew. The director communicated the above to Subject, and Subject gave the Director a list of the few hours he had free. The director told Subject he would call Mrs. DIAZ Ordas back and woula infora Subject if any of the hours were suitable. As of 27 June, Subject hadn't heard further from the director.
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# 27 June 1967MEMO OF CONVERSATIONLeila BELAVAL, Visa Officer of U.S. Embassy1. I talked to Leila today about her contact with the Soviet who brought BAZAROV's passport in for a visa yesterday. She Identifled the Soviet from a photograph as Valentin Sergeyevich LOGINOV, and said that he is always the one who comes to the U.S. Embassy for visas. She did not recognize the photograph of Vladislav Sergeyevich KORMUSIIKIN, the Vice Consul. Actually, Leila believed that LOGINOV was a Vice Consul, said she always asks for him as such when she has to call the Soviet Embassy.A 2. Apparently yesterday was not the first time that LOGINOV has tried to make a date with Leila. She says that he always asks her what she does In her free time, and that she has put him off by saying that she is very busy. Once shexx he asked her whether she spent her free time with other people ax from the Embassy and was surprised to hear that she usually spends her off hours with non-Embassy friends. Yesterday LOGINOV again asked hér what she did in the evenings, and she said she was especially busy now because she has started taking guitar lessons. He mentioned some Soviet dance group that was coming to Mexico in a month or so and said he would like to invite her to go to see them with him. He also told her he was not married. Leila sald she did not refuse the invitation outright but said that she did not know whether she would be free when they came or not.3. I told Leila a few of the facts of Sov let life: that all Soviets have to be married in order to go overseas, that LOGINOV Is a KGB officer and was obviously trying to get his foot in the door of the U.S. Embassy through her, that he was undoubtedly disappointed to hear that she did not spend all her free time with other Embassy people, etc. Leila has evidently been unsure about how to react to LOGINOV's advances, has not wanted to be rüde to him, and seemed relieved when I suggested that she simply decline his invitations by always being busy. She says she does not like his slick manner at all, and I gather that she has felt uneasy in having to deal with him, but now that someone has told her how to react she will have no problem,4. Leila mentioned that LOGINOV knows English but is reluctant to use it. He once read off the visa stamped in a passport in peffect English, and he also read a copy of the new visa regulations in English (to himself, but evidently understanding it all). According to the new regulations, Soviets no longer need visas for continuous transit of the U. S. (i. e., on the same flight), but LOGINOV insisted on getting a visa for BAZAROV in spite of this. (This is confirmed in LIENVΟΥ.)COPIES MADEJ. L. WEENING
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14-0000010LOGINOV handwriting sample, received 16 June 1967, from LIRENOValentin Loguin15-60-55ConsulP-11712
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# SECRETCONTACT REPORTSUBJECT: LICOZY-5DATE OF MEETING: 15 June 19671. I met with Subject at the Del Paseo from 0900 to 1000. The next meeting is for 18 July at 0830 at the same place.2. On 8 June LOGINOV dropped by Subject's office to leave two tickets for the Bolshoy Ballet performance on 11 June. Subject invited LOGINOV and his wife for dinner and LOGINOV accepted for 13 June. (COMMENT: LIENVOY reports their confirming this date on 12 June). Subject said the tickets were used by his wife and son.3. The guests on 13 June were LOGINOV and wife, William do Mier (P-5552), manager of KLM in Mexico and Gustavo ORTIZ Hernan (P-10971). ORTIZ was Mexico's first Ambassador to Israel and is very pro-Israel. He recently retired from the Mexican Foreign Service. Hie last job was Ambassador to Chile. He is 57 years old and apparently a good friend of Subject's. Subject invited ORTIZ because he knew that LOGINOV has been interested in public opinion in Mexico about the recent Israel-Arab war. Subject had been only able to give LOGINOV the opinions of Mexican Jews and he wanted LOGINOV to talk to a real Mexican. The deck was slightly, loaded since Subject knew that ORTIZ is an Israeli partisan. Bubject purposely avoided the subject but it was not long before ORTIZ asked LOGINOV about the Soviet position on the matter. LOGINOV answered with a banality about the USSR only wanting peace. ORTIZ then unloaded on LOGINOV for about half an hour. He told him that he had been in Israel as ambassador and had seen both sides. If the Soviets were interested in peace, why didn't they help the miserable and diseased Arabs with medicine, hospitals, Job training, agricultural aid, etc? This is what they need, not tanks and jets. The Soviets are the real aggressors by araing the Arabs and egging them on. And what fools the Sovs are since the Arabs will never learn to operate any equipment, much less sophisticated stuff. Soviet hypocrisy is obvious to everybody. FEDORENKO's performance at the UN was shameful, etc. LOGINOV never answered a word. Subject later reported the above to the Israeli Ambassador who was pleased since ORTIZ is not a Jew and he is sure the above would be reported to Moscow.4. LOGINOV said he will leave on 23 July for vacation in the USSR. Subject saw Mrs. LOGINOV for the second time. Since her Spanish is extremely limited, she did not participate in general conversation. However, she handled herself well and did not seem in the least ill at ease. In a side conversation ahe told Subject that they have a fifteen year old daughter who is living with her mother. She said that she has known LOGINOV since the age of six as neighbors in Moscow. Finally, she said that she is a chemical engineer.5. I asked if Subject had talked to Hiriam AVILA Kats (581) again about her contacts with our Embassy. He said be hadn't. I asked what advice he had given her. He said that he had told her to be truthful with the Americans and to be careful with LOGINOV.Francis J. COIGNEFILE: P-2712 (P-11712 P-5352 P-10971 P-581
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12LITENBF-1IA JUN 67On the 9 May I went with my wife to the reception given by the ambassador of Checoslovaquia on the occasion of htior National Day.The party took place in the garden where there were a couple of tables seating about ten persons each. Most of the people seating at the tables were from embassies behind the Iron curtain, or local supporters of the extreme left such as Cordero Amador, the painter Marin-Busqued, the art critic Margarita Nelken, Ruth Rivera etc. The Soviets were there headed by Amkuxaragm Bazarov and Kazanteev, present also by the name of/Tchmikov, Valentin Loguinov, Tchmikov is a young man, about thirty five, speake very good Spanish and has a rather nice wife. He invitedus to attend the exhibition of a film, a russian film at the embassy the next day, he also whatwe were leaving said that we had to go to his house soon and have a real russian dinner. This kind of invitation is most unusual. I do not remember any other sovietico suggesting such a thing.In the party there were the usual diplomatic crowd which at ends parties of representations behind the Iron Curtain, Max Wery, the Belginn ambassador and his wife, the French ambassador and his wife, the French Counsellor la Tour du Pin and his wife, the architect Lopez Malo who is one of the directors of the Comité Organizador de los Juegos Olimpicos, the italian ambassador and one of his daughters, the Uruguayan ambassador, the Chilean ambassador and Enrique Cobo del Campo the cousellor of the same embassy, the cuban ambassador Joaquin Hernandez Armas with whom we talked about Venezuela and told me that it was an stupid thing to accuse a country of trying to invade another country with half a dozen men. The chechs had plenty of beer brought checoslova-![image of copies made stamping]cy to P-6235
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two.quia but mixed it with just as much mexican beer if you were notcareful. The Brazilian ambassador was there, Guillermo GimenesRamirez the charge of Costa Rica, Gonzalo Almeida Urrutia, theambassador from Ecuador, from the Foreign Office, Muñoz Zapata andFlores Tejada. I do not remember seeing anybody from the US, butI arrived somewhat late, Kai Somerto the ambassador from Finlandwas present and so was the mayor general Natahn Aferi from Ghana,the ambassador was most friendly as well as Jan Hant the commercialcounsellor and Jiri Suestran Svestka the second secretory incharge o the consulat.Next day we went to the Soviet embassy for the exhibition ofa fil whose title I think was the Father of the Soldier, a ratherchildish film but that brought tears to the eyes of some of theembassy wives who attended. There was an small group of people,including tonse army officers from the Secretary de la Defensa,and Amiral Azanar Cetina, subsecretario de marina, and amiralOtal Briceño, who after a long illness has now some new post inMarina. All the Soviet staff was present, there were two or threecuban including Curvello. There was a change, the doors of theembassy were wide open and there was no question by the peopleat the maxm outside door, inside Frygov and other fellow receivedthe visitors. There was as usual plenty ofniček vodka, axaxmm smalleats but no caviar, both thing were served before and after theexhibition of the film film.On the 17th of may we went to a reception for the National dayof Noruega. They have a beautiful house in Monte Carpatos whichhad been built for the embassy along their norweigian style; thenew ambassador is a tall gaurt, strange man, there were not manypeople because there was a diplomatic lunch at Relaciones and
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white film of the Opympics to Rom rez Vasquez. No Indian around. No Greekreither. Chacha Valdes, formerly de Lanz Duret, with her new husband, licenciado Lozano. She if the owner of Universal. He was nobody until he married, now he is a well known jurist.Prancisco Aguera Cenarro, the director of Revista Internacional, trying to impress the French ambassador with the fact that he had printed an editorial on Israel if his magazine. Revista Internacional has a circulation of about fivehundred copies, but gives *Aguera* a good ten thousand pesos a month.It was a fairly good party as far as diplomatic parties go, but sterile in results. Nobody appeared to *worry* very much about the war in the East, and some *people* like the Paraguayn and the Tobias Eguizabal had the idea that everything had been prepared in advance by the United States and the URSS.That there had been a meeting in which the question had been atteted.Loguinov called me to the office to tell me he had tickets for me and my wife for the Bolshoi ballet for Sunday night. We had been unable to secure anything at the office.
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On Sunday 11 June, Valentin Losuinov was able to obtain for us two good tickets for the Ballet Bolshoi at Bellas Artes and afterwards we went to have something to eat at Lady Baltimore in Madero Street. Very few people were there, which is not surprising in view of the bad quality of their food and poor service. But it was the nearest spot for a quick bite.Loguinov was very much interested in knowing what my US friends thought about the situation in the Middle East and what they would do about it. He was insistent about the possible help that the US would give to Israel, he said that the US had already given Israel a considerable amount of ammunition and planes, and specially money, the URSS had to give some help to the arabs in view of the help given to Israel. According to him there was not the slighest doubt that Israel had been the agressor. The URSS would never consent to any territorial gains by Israel..During our conversation about food, specially about seafood he let it be know that he had been in Mazatlán several times.He said that everything which had taken place in the Middle East had been plotted in advance by the US and Israel.
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SECRETCONTACT REPORTSUBJECT:LICOZY-5DATE OF MEETING:3 June 19671.  After a long hiatus, I called Subject on ca 14 May and learned he was out of the country. I called him again on 6 June and we made a date for 8 June. The meeting was in the breakfast room of the Del Paseo Hotel from 0810 to 0915. The next meeting is at the same place at 0830 on 15 June.2.  Subject was all excited about the Israel/Arab conflict and we spent the best part of the meeting discussing it.3.  He said that LOGINOV called him on 3 June and pressed for a lunchoon date the same day. Subject put him off until 8 June. LOGINOV wanted news on the local Jewish reaction, was everybody behind the Jews, was money being contributed, etc. Subject who was madder than hell about Soviet support of the Arabs gave him holl and to direct questions got the admissions from LOGINOV that the Israelis vere acting in self-defense and that the Americans and British were not providing the Israelis air cover. LOGINOV mentioned that he would go to the USSR on home leave in July.4.  On 6 June Miriam AVILA Kats, who is also very excited sbout the war and who told Subject that she had gone to the Israeli Embassy to volunteer to serve in Israel, told Subject that when she returned home on the evening of 5 June, LOGINOV was waiting for her on the street. His purpose vas the same as wanting to see Bubject, to pump her on local reactions to the war. She also gave LOGINOV hell.5.  She then told Subject that in Holy Week she had been called to the American Embassy and had been asked about her contact with LOGINOV. She said that she had seen the same American (no name given) about two weeks ago. She then told Subject that LOGINOV had asked her to introduce him to "one of her progressive. friends" or "someone in the U.S. Embassy" as a return for the favor of issuing a visa to Dr. Yuriy KUTLER.6.  The above is a capsule account of her relationship with LEVENDERIS. I played innocent until I got the whole story but finally admitted that we had talked to her when he asked, "if it wasn't you, who?" I told him that AVILA had notidea that Subject was in contact with us and had in fact worried that her activities (future) might hurt him which she was definitely against.7.  It appears that AVILA told Subject about us because of LOGINOV's appearance on 5 June and her emotional state about the war. I will discuss this further with Subject at the next meeting, particularly what advice he has or will give her about cooperating with us.Francis J. COIGNEFILE:P-2712 P-11712 P-581SECRET
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14-0000017DOI 14 June 1967SOURCE: LIHABIT14 June 67LOGINOV (P-11712) visited the Czech Embassy this day. He was driving diplomatic license plate car 19 DA. He was there from 1214 to 1238 hours.![signature]file P-11712