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worked in'a peat marsh, later, in 1946, in a textile factory in Lunda. In the
end of 1946, he moved to Norkiping. In 1949 be emigrated from Sweden to Canada.
It was the opinion among the Latvian immigrants' group in Sweden that A.C.
was a Russian agent.
162. Janis . elmanis
About 40 years old. Son of a land-owner of
County. During Latvian times a sugar-beet instructor and a worker in the sugar
factory in Jelgava. In the fIll of 1944, he reached Sweden from Liepaja&
with a refugee boat. In 1946/47 he lived in Lunda and worked for the Swedish
sugar monopoly (SUNK SOCIORMAGET). Re actively participated in the organized
Latvian societies in Lunde. In 1947 he awed to Gotebnrg, from which in the
summer of 1948 be and his family eaigrated to Canada where they live in Edmonston,
Alberta Province. In the fell of 1946, he toed A.?. be had a good friend, a
Latvian officer, who was working in the Russian Service in Stockholm. le declined
to mention his friend's name. His political outlook is strongly in opposition to
_Ithe LCP. He is married; his wife's maiden name is LINIS (her brother, VIKTORS
'Am= in 1945/46 vas in the American POW camp in Regensburg, and in 147 —Littived
in Sweden, from which be later emigrated to Canada where he took past-graduate
mathematics.) They bad 3 children when in Sweden. He is a very energetic worker.
1.63.(Dr:!Augusts\SKO6TE
Was • doctor in the Ventspils district. In the fall of 1944 escaped to
Sweden fromVeutspils. In 1945/46 be lived in Lunda and worked
In 1947 he was one of the first Latvian doctors to be granted the right to
practice in Latvia. In the beginning of 1948, he comdtted suicide by bansing
for an unknown reason. (There vas talk that be had performed an illegal abortion
for which be bad received a warning from the Swedish Medical Administration.) NA
was marriedL and left a widow and 2 children.
164. Aing ur
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!MxWas a worker Of the Lathan political police. During German occupation
vas elevated to rank of police captain. He was very energetic in 7albatting g
the communist underground. During Gerimum occupation he personally interrogated
all captured parachutists dropped by the Russians in Latta.. In 1945, be worked
for the Liepajas SD and was one of the beads of the An golan Partisan Combatting
Section. In 1948, be was in West Germany in the British or U.S. service and he
was sending people to Latvia (information from his corporation "Wavle fellow
member, 140:1313228). He is corpulent, about 10 40 years old, and of good humor.
165. JerbertTeideaanis
-•His a iiorker Orthe - ratvi' an p011ticslpolice._:11fiier.theiersan occupation •
directed the examination -and execution of communists in Valniera and the vicinity
(from this time hence has been known as the Vklmiersa'Rxecutioner); afterwards
he directed the Latvian political pollee section of the SD with the rank of
police captain. In 1945, he was in the Liepaja SD section combatting red i parti-
sans. In April 1945, he arrived in ZLEKAS with a special COMMA and worked in
a very brutal fashion. After the capitulation was in West Germany in the English.
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168. Jani34AIGA - .now in US s:'..nce 1949. Is'cousin of irz,r:ksp:4LDS.