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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.
-17- such information the following per ons were active in the Riga Wt Zo1 area; Ilgvaregilevics /07, Brum:, Smits (E7, and traAs.. • '.- Sterrib-qts /427 -(and some oth-e-FF- Tiiii-Hillin cannot recall). (17) Through several Academy students in Jelgava Hahn got to know another underground group which however, was only a local group. Hahn soon learned that this group was getting arms from somewhere and was distributing them in the Latvian province Zemgale. One lot of such weapons, Hahn was told, was LAuti . buried in Landenwald, near iJelgava. One of the leading personali- ties in this group was FNU Lossbergs, Through Kilevics, a mes-. senger for this group;-Cfbr-tife -Riga area) Hahn was put in con- tact with Tirumnieks, a member of Lossbergs' group. Tirumnieks gave Hahn a safehouse address with an accompanying parole to which Hahn was to-proceed in case of war so as to receive arms. This address was six kilometers from Feternieki in the direction of Riga. It was to the vicinity of this safehouse that the Germans were to send paratroopers as soon as war broke out. - The night of 13-14 June 1941 disrupted all activities in Riga because of the extensive raids, searches, and deportations. Hahn looked up Mitrevics who advised him to sit tight and wait until all quieted down. During this night Hahn was in Liepaja, having just come from one of the safehouses on the Lithuanian- Latvian.border. The owner of this house was also deported during this night, after Hahn left. Hahn stayed with his Godfather in Liepaja during this night and though they arrested a nextdoor famil neither Hahn nor his Godfather, the famous Latvian patriot, Janis'.JfezciemsA.were disturbed. The following morning Hahn re- Mi-Higi-Where he checked to see whether his parents were deported and found them alive and well. After that he returned • to his experimental station and remained there without contacting anyone until the breaking out of hostilities between Russia-sand Germany. On the following day the Germans began to bomb Russian units on the Riga-Jelgava road. Having the first indication that warh 4 begun Hahn proceeded to the aforementioned safehouse; with Janis1 eja, whom he recruited as an aid and who had been working-it' the-same experimental station. At the house Hahn and Leja found that the inhabitants were not knowledgeable of the parole and therefore Hahn and Leja left. They asked some passer- by who the new occupants-might be and:zwere_told that the old in- habitants had been arrested. and that-trrside• were Communists. (Later after the Germans had Chased the Communists out of Latvia Hahn learned through Tirumnieks that the Communists inhabiting the house had followed Hahn and Leja, but since they had gone through the woods they were unable to catch them. Tirumnieks further told Hahn later that the Lossbergs group had been com- pletely disrupted by the deportations, Lossbergs himself having also been deported.)
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 146 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.