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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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e .Tecuyhy 1;.,1„ with'the result that the housekeeper and Kulitis were from then on favorably motivated toward Hahn. After he had served a while as the organizer of the Atheist Section, Hahn was asked why he had accomplished nothing during his term of office. His reply was that he neither had supporters nor was there any interest among the students, which resulted in his being removed from this position. (7) Since in a routine personnel questionnaire Hahn had declared th0 his mother owned a house at the beach, his scholarship was rescinded, forcing Hahn to work evenings for seau "Geklu Eksports".(seed export) as a laboror carrying seed bags. 4.J Twenty to thirty Academy. students who had also lost scholarships because of either too high social standing or because their families had been members of Aizsargi, or for other reasons, were also forced to seek this type of spare time employment with the aforementioned company. Toward the end of the school year Hahn's "visible reform" which was evidenced by his excellent performance as Chairman of the Culture Commission, resulted in the procurement of the position as bookkeeper for the University kitchen. This enabled Hahn to disgard his job as physical laboror and to get free meals at the Academy kitchen. (8) In the end of January 1941 Hahn, as one of eighty students from all over Latvia, went to Sigulda, where a winter rest camp for pro-communist students and college activities was located. The head of this camp, which was located in the . • Rakstnieku Pils (author's castle) was A.4Talcis,4227. According to Hahn there were some cases of students who-were permitted to attend this rest camp on scholastic merit,-but those were very few and the camp was always considered as a camp for Communist sympathizers. Hahn and his friend; Janis Jekobsons, were per- mitted to take advantage of a . two week rest period in*thiecamp • upon the recommendation of Vippers. In this camp Hahn' had a chance to acjuaint himself with many leading young Communists • such as Vera Kacena M.7, who was a polltica organizer at the Universiti—OT-RTOT'another org izer-beifig ldermanisM7 (not present in this camP4_.di . allare— ii.S- , FN ap ro al7r- Ilja s/07, st nis _214 2 , Jeka sitira is;--31/ep o -TVIT)Pitig, mistregbil t-11\: iecksane Zf,. ad'Inlfir LIPIALigLia,, Pavils ipperkAgravis ,Aell Uka ne nkt- , • - • During hie_stay at this rest camp, chief of-all camps ind rest aidiarrived at'-this cafdr'Ei,. . purpose of inspecting it. . . - (9) After his rest at this camp and his subsequent return'to Jelgava Hahn had his first contact with the NKVD.in February 1941, the circumstances being the following: In the SecuAty r',:m .
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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.