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(for personalpersonal data, see the report submitted Summer 1951.). Was a radio-
telegraphist. Served for the Latrhuviray Staff. In 1944/45 worked as a
radiotelegrafist for the LCP refugee-smuggling organization in Kurzeme, which
vas also transmitting military information to Sweden. After the capitulation
was in Sweden, where in 1945/46 he worked as a woodsman in Gotlande. He tried
to reestablish radio contact with an operator who had remeine4 in Kurz.=
(probably in Ventspils). Contact was established inlay 1 , and was main-
tainedvmtil August 1947 when the SvedAlksecurity_ c STAATS-POLISBN)
arrested him and also JILUKINU, B1)NnillI110, ant DR: GINTBIgland—ronfiecited
several pieces of radii) *lima. - Re in& J. LIMING - sentenced to a small
Swedish
for illegal radio transmiesion. He later worked aswith radioman pre
ship. In 1946/47, he maintained radio contact th RICHARIC I who
fine
was transferred by boat from Sweden to Latvia in the summer of 1946. Re is
married. His wife, who remained in Latvia, has been living illegally since the
end of 1946. in the summer of 1951, he was invited by the "SC" to participate
in operative work, but he did not accept the reserved post.
160. janisfRvikis (alsoilanis).
Is a pastor, about 50 years old. The son of a land-owner in Dobele. Finished
priaary school in Yelgava. Here, upon the denunciation of the school director,
JAM LAMA, he vas arrested by the Gem= cumulation authorities for comunistic
activity. On the pleas of the Dabeles farmers, he was freed. Re studied, theology
at the Latvianthdversity. In 1940/41, he worked in Riga as a school teacher
(during this time it was conch:drat/mug teaching circles that he shoved a pro-
communist attitude.) le related this to me himself, in the summer of 1946.
Explaining the suspicions as being the results of misunderstamding. In the
"Kurzemes Cietaksni" he was ordained a minister by A. Frei.* on the strength
of his education. In the fall of 1944, he arrived in Sweden, together with the
shipowner Gramda's wife, who helped him with a certain sum of money to organize
the boat action to Latvia in October 1945. (Ulna rumored that WS. OrMat vas
his sweetheart.) li worked (a a sinister (preacher) for the Latvian refugees
tionk_ O*
in Gotlande, later/at/pale where he organised a Latrian-lbrediA.M.
orgen SVEBBK-LIHRIBIA N ILVILPIXIAMIIDKOD— at first at the Latvian YMCA,
then late INE--- €0.V:--livis organivatioinceepted donations of money and
materials for the relief of needyletvians in Germany and shoved great accomplish-
ments, far surpassing other relief organisations in this work (i.e., DCA, Latvian
Assistance Committee). Together with I. ()intern, he tried to collect more money
for a further boat action. Since 1948, he is living in Bores,serving the Latvian
congregation in southern Sweden and Denmark. He has beemam:led and separated
several times. Lately he is living as con-law husband with Mrs. Aboltina. Was
a member of the political party "Demokratiskals Centre", nd one of the leaders of
its Riga Tamale section during the time of Latvian independence. Be is very
energetic and an accomplished organizer but his moral outlook does not correspond
to the teachings of his calling. In Swaim, he tries to remain coequal terms
with the left as well as the right factions, although,his sympathies are with the
right. In june 1949,, he Was hiretlXrthe SC as an assistant to its director of
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161. ildermanis
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About 33 years old. According to his own statements, during the German
occupation; he had owned a large textile factory in Riga. In 1945, he worked
for the Liepajas BD in the Russian-partisan-coahatting section under Hugo Purina
and Herberta Teidemans. After the capitulation he arrived. in Sweden, and at first,