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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.
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/7f7rr:,7:7.on kDECA''in Sweden there are numberous groups allImA64*.g,PPYAi thatltion and at RS, shou3d be careful lest he be misled. Seeing the lack of political harmony in exile which disappointed his greatly, and seeing no possibility Zo find suitable infiltration candidates, VALDEMARS, who had originally decided to remain in Sweden and Hahn (consideded as a reserve candidate) volunteered to DR. UNTERS in December 1948 to return to Latvia. So as not to lose the possibility of procuring US aid in the future, Hahn and VALDEVARS worked out a signal plan and an Operational plan which would be'completeLi divorced from and never revealed to the Swedes and/or TILBURY. At first their plan was to procure LE aid, through H. GINTERS,..however, this was later changacybecause LUKINS claimed that it was he and not H. GINTERS who had contact with the US. In fact 11. °INTERS was clstming that he had contact with US officials when, according to LUKINS, it was LUKINS who had the actual contact on which H. MITERS based his claim. ' LUKINS then revealed that it was the US Naval Attache in Stockholm with whom he was in contact and who had supported the abortive Christmas 1946 expedition. 18. In the end of January 1949 VALDEMAR, Hahn and JANIS KRUMS began training in radio Russian Army OD, tradecraft, and firing in preparation for a Spring infilt ration. The training was conducted by the following TIMES case officers in German Language: . encoding and decording instructor- JAMBOR, Radio Chief Instructor - SINANSON, Trade- craft (2 hrs.) oyA/Axii OB and firing instructor who also was in charge of all train- 'ing, 7 Capt. ANISBABON, (a third, another radio instructor,. Hahn cannot recall. This training was conducted in the safe house for Estonians who were simul- taneously being trained for this mission. The Lithuanian candidates also participated In this training at the living quarters of the Mstonians. All three safehouses were located on the Island of LIDINGO, • e Latvians being lowated in the summei . home belong- • ing to Swedish archeology lectOrse,GEIJVADL. •
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 146 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.