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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. 61 …this convoy of boats, carrying among others Mitrevics and.Andersons, left , the :Ventspils harbor. rrior t…
  • p. 62 …The first boat in Which Anderson and Dr. Ginters were traveling managed to escape and reached…
  • p. 69 …It is also Hahn's belief that Andersons (an Anflltree from Sweden who arrived in Latvia…
  • p. 78 …by s reporters in Plant (Najas) that Andersons Auld like to meet him. Unable to do…
  • p. 80 …Arnitis, engineer, Anderson, sailor, and Petersons and,Smits, and was:finaaced by SwediSh Church fends, the…
  • p. 135 …Janis/Andersons Was an agriculturalist. He was one of the directors of the "Mezpuiku" organization in…
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SECURITY INFOR MATP N •II.?
1. Janistezciems
Hahn's mother's brother --- , Former Captain in Latvian Army. Now in
Varel, Germany.
2., AleksandrsiMezciems
Margita.(Hehn)
Born. in Riga In 1911. Hahn's sister. . Married FNU Olins,who died in •
19140 just before the first Russian occupation of Latvia. Margita's
husband, a former Lt. in the Latvian Army in the 1920s, while under .
infl;uenCe of alcohol, attempted to execute what was legally termed
a licoup d'etatu in Valmiera, Latvia. Although this act was in later
.years, described as having fascist overtones, Hahn himself. con .
, vinced that it was nothing but a hz!rmlese outburst and eMetinnel . .
reaction while under the influence' of alcohol. This so-called ”Coup,.
d'etat", having gained notice in the press, was actually to" be ..:
punished by court-martial; however, in order to escape such a disgrace,,.
Lt. Oliva, on the advice of his family and friends, claimed imam- . -
iy, Which was accepted by the legal authorities. Margita(Hahn) ,,
was last heard of by Hahn in 1948, at which time she was living ini.:•-
-Riga and working as a lecturer at the University orRiga. • •
h. : - O.Ingride (Hahn) . . .. ..
Berman Riga in 1913'. Hahn's sister. 14arried agronomist , Vitals, lork -
litiOrni she has had five children. The 'family is at present residing •
A,-inultralia:'. . . . • ..:,! •
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jinia 4aneons
: Son 'of Department-Director in the. Latvian State Agency for Internal. ..
Land Re orm Matters. Deported by the Russians in March erApri'1941.
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; ..6. • Martiris Kreslilis . . , .. , .• . .
. SO of, the Prosecuting Attorney who prosecuted the Perkonkrusts....
• .(sWas • a League) and Bruno Kalnins in 1914.
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, Later jeined .:the-Savkina Gvarde .(military translationi'.Ami-Guard;
truemealing: industrial and political police.). During..theberman
occupation, Bueeri joined the German-sponsored police unit sinea.he
'felt that his Other three firends inHahn's original group thought,
:,.;*had, ,ioessibly,becoMeaCemmuniat. :•
Hahni s mother's brother. Now surgeon in England.
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