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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…
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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.
1424 Col.\RudoIfatOpmanis
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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