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This undated, secret Central Intelligence Agency debriefing memo to the Chief, CSOB, records the life story of Clevland O. Hahn, a Latvian born in 1919. It covers his family and pre-war life, the Soviet and German occupations of Latvia, his anti-communist resistance group at the Jelgava Academy, and his post-war activities in Sweden. An appendix gives numbered biographic notes on Latvian emigres, intelligence figures and police officers. The document contains no UFO material.

  • p. 1 …and was extremely cooperative in giving his life story.. .whiChAW:. . t .:;:l. had. never told to…
  • p. 24 …judicial tM,because Ankralts himself freely admitted cooperation with the NKVD, and eciase Ankravs wrote a…
  • p. 26 …this is not a case of friendly cooperation to achieve the destriCtion of Communism, but rather…
  • p. 37 …Possible cooperation 4th ,theA3rit*sh., to:Toreignt7breadcasts'and,the,written.%re 4
  • p. 38 …All in all, H claims that he revealed a cooperatively minute amount of his • . • as well…
  • p. 52 …therefOrs, • • • 1 • the PPS continued to oppose cooperation With the JAGDVERBAMD untiLapproxitatelro4S. week after their -original…
  • p. 81 …Fearing that Hahn would possibly be persuaded to cooperate with =Other , group (thisd incidentally, is,Hahn4…
  • p. 87 …situation report wftbh Hahn had written in cooperation with Zalcmanis and which depicted the situation in…
  • p. 98 …and that henceforth the Swedish authorities would cooperate only with Tilbtry in any and all Latvian…
  • p. 103 …VALDEMARS related that he (VALDEMARS) haaagreed to cooperate with TILBURY giving TILBURT his word of honor…
  • p. 109 …material and chided Hahn that he was cooperating with the wrong man (meaning KALME). SKOBE further…
  • p. 110 …Since Kalme was unable to give more concrete datatbout cooperation with DYOLAIM, Hahn agreed to SKOBE…
  • p. 112 …with the TIMAAS so that he could begin cooperating with them and then slowly assume -113-
  • p. 113 …Andreason to whom he expressed his desire to cooperate enumerating all his qualifications, as well as…
  • p. 123 …Upon interrogation y H , he admitted cooperation with the Cheke and wrote a long, detailed narrative…
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Lenghty debates ensued which liter' far iifar night and then in. the early morning
Dr. Ginters finally revealed to/that the Broadway was behind all this. Dr. Ginters
further amplified this by saying that the Broadway was behind Tilbury grew unknown to
the Tibars and that this fact must not only be withheld at all cost from the Tibars
but also from all other Latvians. From the Broadway contact with Tilbury the
following Broadway interests and opinions could be el/id:needs
a. Broadway believed that in case of Russian invasion of Sweden,
the Swedish people would be poer opponents to the Russians while the Latviane, who
were experienced and would surely oppose the invaders would make much more suitable
partisan leaders whom Broadway could than support.
b. Broadway would be able te support Latvian partisans much more
satisfacterily'than the Tibars.
c. Guarantees for foil/Jos of Latvian participants have been
given . by Broadway (and not by the Tiber° as stated before)/
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d. Broadway would judge by the biographies which individulat
would be actable ti them. ?1
• Though at first Hahn felt that it was unwise te:fumnish
biographies to the Tibars he agreed to furnish them to Broadway because he felt that
thie was sufficiently secure. To this Dr. Ginters added that the biOgraphies were
to be furnished as 800n AS possible because it Was intedded to Am I I
very shortly. Hahn feels that this urgency had some connection with the carAni inter-
national situation at that time (the Berlin airlift had Net begun). Furthermore
-Dr. %Oters felt that Hahn should personally meet Tilbury with whom he , could then
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discuss this matter. • . d.A.10MIW °
Diseuesing this matter with MORTAL an RNFILLOW in detail thP ' still:
felt uncertain and refused to beliefetpthrpeffitrtaLCP had 408111
politiaal ambitions. WILLOW being inCirFited; • PA,ryide./Orly in the trax......d phase,
completed a very general biography along with HahnfRNFORTAL refused to do. this.
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