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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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Security -16- LALI date Hahn had all his co-workers ready to spread these instruc- tions, which however did not arrive from Germany, and therefore this project had to be abandoned because Hahn considered it impossible to get all his assistants together again. During the last Hahn-Grosskopfs meeting in the middle of May 1941 the . latter expressed fear that the NKVD was on his trail and that he could not delude them despite his influential position. Grosskopfs did not appear at their next scheduled meeting and when Hahn called his residence -- using the alias Jekabs Gangis -- Grosskopfs' sister informed Hahn in a sobbing voice, that her brother was not home. Hahn gathered from these sobs as well as from her tone of voice, that Grosskopfs had been arrested, and therefore, worried about the written instructions which he was to distribute, he asked.Grosskopfs' sister if he could come and see her. Receiving an affirmative answer Hahn proceeded to Grosskopfs' residence in great hopes that he could salvage all • the material that had been so difficult to prepare (particularly difficult was procurement of paper in Latvia at that time), and for which many people were waiting; he felt that if he could not get all or a part of this material he could at least clarify the circumstances surrounding Grosskopfs' apprehension. Hahn claims that though he realized the risk of going to a residence which could easily turn out to be a trap was very great, he was young, enthusiastic, and somewhat foolhearty. and proceeded anyway despite all the possible consequences. Arriving at the residence Hahn was informed by Grosskopfs' sister that the latter had been arrested somewhere on the out- . side. Nowhere in the residence could Hahn find the aforementioned first half of the instruction though he did find all the paper upon which they were to be printed, and taking this paper Hahn left the apartment house. On his way downstairs he noticed two men who seemed to be observing him and feared that he had fallen into a trap. However he passed these men on the stairs and left the .building without incident. , • (16) In the end of May 1941 Vanags introduced Hahn to some unidentified man who Hahn later learned was a member of Rikards organization. This man informed Hahn that through him he would get pistols which Hahn was to distribute to his Jelgava Academy underground, as well as his Riga group. Another assign- Anent was then given to4iiahn which consfated.in organizing an information center in Riga to which information regarding Russian troop movements in the provinces and Riga would flow, such in-, formation being gathered by Hahn's organization and/or any recruits they cared to enlist in this work. The unidentified individual was to become the recipient of all this information. For this purpose Hahn set up a safe house addre on Kr. Barone wis also recruited for this assiwnment, In the collection o Street in Riga. The house-owner's son, Mali= e.curJiy f 77:::=Thn brechts4127 7 SECRET •
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 146 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.