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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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- p. 1 …his life story.. .whiChAW:. .
t .:;:l. had. never told to anyone' in -1,such detail and…
- p. 4 …eventually almost disap peared, though he
really never changed his basic ideas of free enterprise. From…
- p. 9 …of freedom,
and a person who had never talked that way before. Hahn, who
realized the…
- p. 10 …such articles should never be written and that-the way that .
• Hahn hat eipressed"Iiinieelfwaf -triiite…
- p. 13 …nationalistly
motivated group and would no doubt never fight for the Communists!
Since Valdemars frequently travelled…
- p. 20 …Category C - Those persons who wished to join this organi-
zation but who had never been…
- p. 23 …This statement coincides with the truth
:
, never has Hahn noticed any press mention of Rucelis while…
- p. 35 …4uri umii eters, This meeting which actually never Occured,,h40J41
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enf.: Eirrangedi the…
- p. 51 …opnOrtUtity•te - '.fleejo-Seeden...,MitrevicsMhd..jiad really.,never.Stopped'his.actiiitiSpt
-.-,WaS-:.aceepted;:,,eventhough he too…
- p. 61 …Hahn was requested to reply by indorsement which he promised
to do but which he never…
- p. 64 …He took along 20,000
rubles and has never been heard of since. On 15 May…
- p. 68 …know,
began to complain that the "Colonel" never appeared in person, and should make
at least…
- p. 75 …d never catch bum '0.n'3 Oct 1945 Iiedainie and DamamiS.Were arrested in the…
- p. 77 …he was having built, the cut-outs never returned.
Hahn clamis that the reason they were…
- p. 84 …Obviously
-Hahn never knew the contents of the messages received and sent in this fashion; but…
- p. 85 …Svikis, (whoa H terms very ambitious), for this as well as personal reasons,
never revealed any…
- p. 86 …SVANTESSON was and convicted on a charge of misappropriation of funds, as he
never admitted his…
- p. 87 …Later Zarins informed Hahn that he had never received this report whereupon Hahn
sent him another…
- p. 93 …Hahn claims that he never oceived the debriefing of these;he does not
know whether Ginters…
- p. 94 …Lukins:never
-nantiOned either of,these.names to fialliSteinto,4spoks of only ono. Now
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- p. 99 …TILBURY) never had been, is not now, and will never be Ale to procure
recurits for…
- p. 102 …This BILESKALNS never had the opporutnity to do.
On the other hand, VaLDEMAR related to Hahn…
- p. 104 …which would be'completeLi
divorced from and never revealed to the Swedes and/or TILBURY. At…
- p. 109 …SKOBE further mentioned that the DS will never fully understand Latvia
- p. 113 …Nevertheless, Hahn stated that
because of political differences they would never be able to come to…
- p. 116 …Arrested by the
.NKOD and was never heard from.
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on partisan activities in Kurzeme and if there exists the possibility
of establishing contact with such partisans independent of SIS. This
correspondence, though secure, was, Hahn feels, too frequent. SKOBES
intelligent questions and general content of the letters as well as the
urgency which was indicated, led Hahn to believe that he truly was in
contact with BROADWAY. In these letters SKOBE informed that BROADWAY
had a great deal more information aboUt the LCP's machinations than could
be imagined and therefore BROADWAY was extremely interested in assuming
a new contact, completely divorced from TILBURY. In answer to SKOBES
query whether HAHN had the possibility for contacting VOLDEMkR separetely,.
the latter replied in the affirmative, bringing about a request from
SKOBE that Hahn turn this entire matter over to him because it is a
great deal more insecure to operate in Sweden then in England. Hahn
replied that he felt that he should encode and decode and thereby retain
control to which SKOBE assured him that he would only be lending his
codes to BRCIDWAY Until they could assume contact after which the Code's
would be returned to Hahn. (It should be mentioned here, that there was
no possibility of utilizing LIMNS radio because of a lack of fluids.)
During this time Hahn's contact man in the US, HUME, wrote to Hahn
and informed that he had established contact with YCLAIM and was in need
of information about the partisans, which Hahn sent him. Somehow SKOBE
found out about the fact thatHahn was sending Kalme this material and
chided Hahn that he was cooperating with the wrong man (meaning KALME).
SKOBE further mentioned that the DS will never fully understand Latvia
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