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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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140. JulijAzolins
. My father's brother JANA son-in-law. About 30 years old. In 1940/
41 attended Olaia commercial school in Riga. He was a "Kamsargs"
in his awn and another Riga school. In June 1941, he fled with the
Russians. In the fall of 1945, he WS in Latvia, working with the
MVD in Liepaja. His brother Uldis, about 28 years old, in 1952, still
lived in my father's house in Vecpiebalgas county, town of Leimana
(he is a printer for the publication "Cina")
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An officer of the Latvian Legion. He was widely known as a battle
, leader on the Eastern front. He was married. in 1945, after the
capitulation, he legalized himself and worked as an agriculturist and
leader of "Seklu Centrales" under Petersona direction in Kurzeme,
Ventspils district. He organized a good partisan-supporter net in
Kurzeme. In October 3, 1945, he was imprisoned by the Ventspils MVD
and through torture was brought to a state of complete collapse.
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In the fall of 1945, was in a 6-man partisan group in Kurzeme, Ziru
county, SISES.forest. Was one of the PPS candidates for the post of
commander of the Partisans in Kurzeme. He was rejected because it was
found that he had not shown a nationalistic attitude in 1940/41. He
didn't have any talent for organization eitber.
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Was a doctor, a surgeon. During German occupation was in Riga; after
the fall of Riga, was in Kuldiga. After the oapitulation, in the
Ventspils hospital. Was a al se friend of FARikardam (believe she
participated in F. Rikard's un erground oriiiiiiatiomin-1940/41). Is
a friend of the actress Lili a' tengel (now ilo.s.) and the opera
;singer Hilda HiliCR4M-Stenga . s a member of the "Dziesmuvara" choir.
- In the and the beginning of 1945; she directed the PPS
organized sanitary courses (first-aid, care of Wounds, etc.) for the
organized partisan groups in Kuldigas county. After the capitulation,
she worked as a PPS liaison officer, and sent medical supplies to the.
Partisans in the woods. According to Valdemar's information, in the
end of 1945, she was imprisoned in Ventspils together, with the child-
doctorAzolu, who supparted the partisans also. In the summer of 1949
the newspaper "Cele Mira ge" published in Sweden an irtiele on partisan
activity in La via (included in it was the account of Dr. I. Saprasa .
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imprisonment). Her husband who was then in Eastern Germany, wrote the
editor, Andrei_ litim;-that the information was not correct, that he
had rekEiga a letter from her that she was working as a doctor in
Riga. (This statement doesn't prove anything, for such a latter could
have,been written under torture):
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144. Alise. Lejine (called TANTE in the woods) (Later married Oh.) .
The wife of company commander Lejina of the Iatvian Army. Is about 55
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