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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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-21- .1 122.1 1st It.'lliervaldislAdamsons•• ._ .•• • SECHT ECURITY INFORMATION A legendary battle leader of the Latvian 19 Division. He wigs honored with the cavalier-order Iron Gross. In the spring of 1945 it was anticipated (after R. Osis declined) that he would be the director of the SS. Yagdverband Get, Latvian OperationaStaff, but due to a serious wound he was not able to tale this post. On the day of the capitulation, May 8, 1945, he remained as the last of the Latvian Legion Generalinspector staff in Liepaja. (Valdemers, information. 121. Ilaj.l(ocins Was a commander of the Latvian 19 Division regiment at the Kurzeme front. He is now in a British Zone in Western Germany commanding a Latvian transport unit. He is considered a distinguished war leader and theoretician. 123. Capt. fnu\rjerts During the Garman occupation was the Head of Tukuma district. In the beginning of 1945, on the instructions of the Latvian National Conmittee, he organized the Latvian political police in Liepaja and was the real chief for Valdemars. After the capitulation, he appeared in Sweden and from there, in 1946, he went illegallYbY boat ,o England. For this be received 3 months in prison. 124. Janis/Andersons Was an agriculturalist. He was one of the directors of the "Mezpuiku" organization in the last years of free Latvia. During German occupa- tion was general director of agriculture in the Latvian Self-Govern- ment. In the end of September 1944, it was anticipated he would be Agriculture Minister in the new Latvian Government. In October 1944, he arrived in Germany and took a responsible post in the Latvian Refugee Agency. In the spring of 1945, he returned to Latvia, and . it was expected that he would be the Agricultural Minister in the newly- founded May 7, 1945, Government. On Nay 8, he went by to Sweden from Liepaja. In Sweden he is the head of the "Kurzemniekill (Kur- zemniekin are the initiators of the foudning of a Government on May 7, 1945 and are supporters of this idea). Since 1948, a member of the advisory board of the Latvian National Fund, elected as a member of the "Naciodkli vienoto latviefin" part,. He is one of the most power- ful and influential leaders of the right wing, among the Latvians in Sweden. He is a member of the N ZemtUdra Savienibas party. (Farmers Union). His is now working in Sweden as an agriculturalist: ' • 4 125. Aleksandr ansons During Derman Occupation was the chief of Talei district in 1942. Be- came unfortunately famous with the Latvian "Brivpriligo ft soldier re- cruitment in 1942. After returning from the front, in 1944/45, he was SEMI ECURITY INFORMATION
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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.