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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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and the Latvian people and that BRCADWAY t s approach to the problem would .
be a more realistic one in that they could be more interested in saving
the Latvian people.
Since Kalme was unable to give more concrete datatbout cooperation
with DYOLAIM, Hahn agreed to SKOBE t s proposal to cooperate with BR(IADWAY,
but not via the mails as SKOBE proposed but rather in person.
In the beginning of September 1949, Georgilgour, BROADWAY repre-
sentative arrive in Goteborg using the,alias_Vikto_SanderesTe, to whom
Hahn turned over bb, Neldemar signal plan and code books. Incidentally,
Kilgour mentioned during his one day stay with Hahn that he had served
in ' Skeden during the war and indicated a strong dislike for the Swedes.
Kilgour, prior to departing, left Hahn an addresi to which be could write
c/eMr82.,) /.1.4ristliebs, London.'
The entire conversation with KilgOur indicated that BROADWAY would
use this possibility to undertake a penetration mission which wouid
originate in and be prepared in England, since it was feared that Sweden
was. too insecure. Kilgour also promised to give Hahn a summary of the
news which he would receive from Latvia via Hahn t s furnished plan. Also
touching upon Hahn t s desired and attempted contact with the DS, Kilgour
stressed that the DS is a beginner in this work while BROADWAY has a
great deal of experience and through its information network has its
finger on all occurancee in the entire world which have any meaning what-
so ever. He further mentioned that the DS acts too impetuously and insecurely.
• In the beginning of October 1949, Kilgour arrived unexpectedly and
requested from Hahn information how through Hahn t s. contacts the new,

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