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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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''32• • 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 $L ins \ • !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. 166. fnu '301FDE micarguaxim_ FricisiKW,ge 168. Jani34AIGA - .now in US s:'..nce 1949. Is'cousin of irz,r:ksp:4LDS.
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