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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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the share-front of Riga at Lielupe under the leadership of R. Sternberg. In the fall of 1944, all three brothers prepared themselves for a par- tie= life in the Iaunpiebalgas forest, building bunkers for their families and cattle. PPS sent them a radio set and an operator. Neither dUring the time of Kurzemes Prison nor after the capitulation was any- thing heard of their fate. 101. Edgard &mania See No. 97. 102. Raimondg(Silarajs Was - -a student of 3Arohitecture at the Latvian University in the same. class as JANSON". During the German Occupation, was in the SD service. In thefall of 1944, he WAS invited by the Germans to assist in organizing the SS lagOverband Ostia the Latvian sector. In September 1944, he and about 30 Latvians went to Berlin for this purpose. He appeared in Kuria= in the beginning of Octber 1944 with the SS • Yagdverband Oat Latvian Operational Staff as the director of the political sedtion with rank of lieutenant. About November 1944, he arrived in Danzig, together with a Latvian unit that was scheduled to be dropped behind Russian lines at Vidzeme or Latgale at the jump-training school. Here, during a drunken brawl, he was shot :nd killed by some Estonian. . 103. (L44Augis A fUrloughed lieutenant of the Latvian Army. He was one of the first to finish the Latvian War College. He was the owner of a Water:Mill in Rdales pagasta (county) and was the commander of the Edales Aizsarg (Militia). He was the :director of the PPS organized pargisan groups in Edale. (According to the Plan he was considered the Commander of the Southern* part of the Ventspils district.) He sheltered and fed a great nuMber of refugees in his Mill. After the capitulation, he was arrested for treason and sent to Russia. In the fill of 1945, he wrote from L7 J that he hoped to be able to retven the beginning of winter. 104. JarLi Was the manager of in Zuru pagasta (county) in Ventspils district in 1944J 1945. (His father had escaped to Sweden in 1944). In 1941, he was arrested by -. the Russians and was in Riga Central Prison, when the Germans occupied Riga." The cell in arbdch he wae Imprisoned was the only. one that escaped getting shot when the Russians fled. He helped the PPS organize a partisan group in Zurupagast. In the spring of 1945, he declined leadership, hoping the Russians would permit him to live; in this non-.' mention, he strove to maintain good relations with the local communiste. After the capitulation, he was arrested by the Russians. (News item from Latvian Government ,Press: The Oovefnment has discovered alp.,Orinvalds 4 SECURITY I3RMATION
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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.