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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 …his life story.. .whiChAW:. . t .:;:l. had. never told to anyone' in -1,such detail and…
  • p. 4 …eventually almost disap peared, though he really never changed his basic ideas of free enterprise. From…
  • p. 9 …of freedom, and a person who had never talked that way before. Hahn, who realized the…
  • p. 10 …such articles should never be written and that-the way that . • Hahn hat eipressed"Iiinieelfwaf -triiite…
  • p. 13 …nationalistly motivated group and would no doubt never fight for the Communists! Since Valdemars frequently travelled…
  • p. 20 …Category C - Those persons who wished to join this organi- zation but who had never been…
  • p. 23 …This statement coincides with the truth : , never has Hahn noticed any press mention of Rucelis while…
  • p. 35 …4uri umii eters, This meeting which actually never Occured,,h40J41 .. . .. :: .......s..4.4'.; enf.: Eirrangedi the…
  • p. 51 …opnOrtUtity•te - '.fleejo-Seeden...,MitrevicsMhd..jiad really.,never.Stopped'his.actiiitiSpt -.-,WaS-:.aceepted;:,,eventhough he too…
  • p. 61 …Hahn was requested to reply by indorsement which he promised to do but which he never…
  • p. 64 …He took along 20,000 rubles and has never been heard of since. On 15 May…
  • p. 68 …know, began to complain that the "Colonel" never appeared in person, and should make at least…
  • p. 75 …d never catch bum '0.n'3 Oct 1945 Iiedainie and DamamiS.Were arrested in the…
  • p. 77 …he was having built, the cut-outs never returned. Hahn clamis that the reason they were…
  • p. 84 …Obviously -Hahn never knew the contents of the messages received and sent in this fashion; but…
  • p. 85 …Svikis, (whoa H terms very ambitious), for this as well as personal reasons, never revealed any…
  • p. 86 …SVANTESSON was and convicted on a charge of misappropriation of funds, as he never admitted his…
  • p. 87 …Later Zarins informed Hahn that he had never received this report whereupon Hahn sent him another…
  • p. 93 …Hahn claims that he never oceived the debriefing of these;he does not know whether Ginters…
  • p. 94 …Lukins:never -nantiOned either of,these.names to fialliSteinto,4spoks of only ono. Now •%k
  • p. 99 …TILBURY) never had been, is not now, and will never be Ale to procure recurits for…
  • p. 102 …This BILESKALNS never had the opporutnity to do. On the other hand, VaLDEMAR related to Hahn…
  • p. 104 …which would be'completeLi divorced from and never revealed to the Swedes and/or TILBURY. At…
  • p. 109 …SKOBE further mentioned that the DS will never fully understand Latvia
  • p. 113 …Nevertheless, Hahn stated that because of political differences they would never be able to come to…
  • p. 116 …Arrested by the .NKOD and was never heard from. 9. ValdemarXetersons Member of Hahn f s…
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
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