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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. 19 …Hahn and decided to proceed to the headquarters og he Perkonkrus because they heard rumors that…
  • p. 22 …Cerins is the editor now. . *..(8) The Headquarters flof the Rikard group was located in.Riga…
  • p. 29 …covert members who were reporting to the headquarters through the open mails. On this trip Hahn…
  • p. 32 …Shortly after his arrival, Schlesinger personally' -visited the headquarters of Rikard's group (which incidentally was…
  • p. 37 …group Headquarters closed, the organization.discOntinued, -and '00* ditg (the. *CA) Was.henceforth occupied bYthe'SD…
  • p. 121 …He accompanied Hahn to the Headquarters of the Swastika League after Habn i s organization disbanded…
  • p. 128 …he He cont wa ' d, and shortly before the fall headquarters at Dumdagas "Annahute" where he…
  • p. 133 …In the fall of 1944 was the Command- ing Officer of the Headquarters detachment of Gen…
  • p. 137 …with special instructions from SS Yagdverband Oat Headquarters. Until the capitulation he was the assistant to…
to Estonia died of pneumonia. The second is not known.
0. Lithuanians - HRIEDIS - half Lithuanian, half Latvian, who
in this operation used the alias (SIB.
HERTOR - who was Lithuanian chief of Swedish operations. After
the operation be was replaced as chief of Lithuanian operations for
TIEHARS by a Lithuanian professor who arrived in Stockholm from London.
Third name not remembered, but Hahn does know that he was
comparatively recent partisan arrival from Lithuania ,. T,
The group was successfully landed somewhere on the Lithuanian wait:.
However, as it later Could be deduced from VALDEMARS letters to Hahn
and from some of Tilbury utterings, Valdemar had lost either all or at
least a majority of his supplies and equipment including either his
radio or his crystals. (These letters to Hahn contained no secret
writing though VAIDEHAR did have a special type of secret writing peneil
which be received from TILBURY who said it came from BROADWAY and which
he used Icor communications with TILBURY to wham VAIMENARS wrote addressing
his letters With bb true name and real address). (Later, when Hahn
talked to BROADWAY representative, George BilgoUr, the latter requested
that Hahn furnish him all letters he bad received from VAIDENABS so that
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the BROADWAY could ascertain whether or not these letters did not contain 1
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SA. Hahn claims that TILBURY too had asked for these letters, but was t
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