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SFTJust one Week before the ball -- as Hahn began to feel
more and more uncertain because of the aforementioned incidents --
he had asked the chief of the communist-sponsored students' pro-
fessional organization, A.1(jakans /2r, for a reference about
his work in the Academy. OFFOught this reference because he
felt he needed a job to fall back upon in case he ever had to
abandon his location and seek cover. Hence, having procured
this reference, he approached the Agriculturle. CommisaRriat,
where he contacted the Personnel Chief,_,ENILISteinrlaV, with the
request that he be given a job in his field. In - thli fashion
Hahn procured employment at the Soil and Vegetation Research
and Experimental Station in Peternieki, 13 kilometers northeast
of Jelgava.
On the morning after the ball -- having found that he
was not being looked for -- Hahn went to the Voyenkomat where
he registered that he was leaving Jelgava and proceeding to
his place of employment in Peternieki.
_FN4Konrads well as most other employees, believed Hahn to
, (15) The chief of this experimental station,(Profess0
be a Communist observer because Stein had sent with Hahn an order
to the Professor that Hahn is to be employed by the station.
Despite the fact that everyone at the station disliked him, Hahn
found that his position was very good in that he could not only
continue his clandestine activities, but also had the opportunity
to do a great deal of travelling, which his job at the station
called for. Several times after he returned from some business
trip or other -- having on the side also accomplished some of
his underground work -- he was informed by Professor Konrad Z127
that some NKVD people had been looking for him. Such visits
strengthened the suspicion of Konrad and his staff since they
believed that the persons who had come to visit Hahn were his
buddies from the NKVD.
In the beginning of May 1941 Mitrevics introduced Hahn
GrosskqpraLIE7,
(I to a new underground it
organization
later developed,
whose had
leader
connectRairifith
was Indulis
who
--riiiri-EP group which consisted of members of the Riga University
Riding Club. The assignment that Grosskopfs gave to Hahn con-
. gisted of spreading written instructions to Latvian farmers, as
- Well as other rural inhabitants so that,they would know how to
.protect themstiveg from,thefts, r and otheacts of violence in
time of war. Even though thisis an act 'nf'self -preservation
Which:would come naturally, it was felt that these instructions
were needed because of the possibility that war may spread panic
and no one mould really know what to do. At that very time Gross -
kopfs was awaiting the secots:::::: tof:::::ninstructione, i.e.
he was expecting daily to arrive from Germany. On a pre-arranged
instructions pertaining to sabotage and armed resistanbe, which
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