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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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57. fnu/Arejs
SECURITY INFORMATION
Was head o Swastika League liSandergruppe A u during German Occupation.
Was assigned to executions of Jews and Communists. Was always drunk.
58. Aleksandersklumsons
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/Member of the 5-man student group organized by SW League for purpose
of reaping the harvest of farmers who had been departed. Worked 2
months and reaped and took care of 14 farms in Tukums vicinity. .Left
for Riga, end of September, and registerdd with SW League to join a
Latvian National but Germans did not agree to it. Was later in
uSD" in Minsk. He remained in Kurzeme.
.59. (capt.)RudolfsVerdemanis
Is now in Sweden. Was the chief of a Latvian Officers Union organized
within a section of the ”Latvian Card File," under Rickard. It seems .
to Hahn they were being used as a Latvian Army care which would be
activated at the proper moment. They had a secret assignment and
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60.(1st Lt4arups
Is now in the U.S., Was a member and secretary of the Officers Union.
61.(1st Lt:\FredrichAucis
Is now in the U.S. or Canada. He was 4MeMber of the Gfficers Union.
621 1st L*
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kArvidIndzins
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Was a member of the Officers Union. He was killed in the Legion.
63. Harij donis
Was a member of the Antisemetic Institute which was in the same build-
ing as he R group, Card File, but divorced from it. He stayed in Latvia.
*64. Nuntaut
Was the son of Prof. Plaukis. He stayed in Latvia. He was a member of
, the Amtisemetic Institute.
*651 Ge4tarikers
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Headed the Latvian Internal and Indigenous Quisling Organization (General
Dirdktion des ). When the SW
League Card File was outlawed by the German Army in December 1941,
Celmins left it and joined.the General's organization.
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