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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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A. Pre-war Life
(1) Hahn e s father Antons, was born in Vecpiebalga
in 1884, the oldest of three children. While Anton' s youngest
brother, Janis, performed the managerial household tasks of the
parents' farm, Antons' second brother, Julijs, was shot in later
life because of some type of revolutionary activity which Hahn's
parents seldom talked about but casually indicated that it was
the 1905 revolution when this incident occurred. Antons himself
took the commercial course in the Polytechnic Institute of Riga,
which he completed with a master's degree in Economy. While
attending the Polytechnic Institute, Hahn' s father joined the
well-known Latvian students' fraternity, Celonija, and helped
pay . . his way through the institute by working as a tutor during
the summer months. This summer activity brought Hahn' s father
together with Hahn's mother, Olga Eli abeth Mezciems, whose two
.1brothers, Janis , and Aleksandrs /, he (Antons) tutored.
From the beginning of Antons associationi with his future wife's
family he noted that Olga's father, Davis Mezciems, a merchant
-..in flax seed, was extremely pro-German, such German sympathy
being consistant with the pro-German feeling of all merchants in
the Baltic States whose heritage stemmed from the pro-German
Hansiatic League. Hahn's father, Antons, being however, quite
a nationalist, which was the exact opposite of Olga's family's
feeling, occasionally found himself in differences with her
family, but nevertheless managed to sway Olga's two brothers
toward Latvian nationalism to such an extent that in later life
they became well-known Latvian patriots who fought against German
as well as Russian oppression and subjugation while participating
in the Latvian independence battles, 1914 - 1918. During his •
days as a member of the fraternity Celonija -- which at that time
was the only social center for college students -- Hahn's father .
continually propounded Latvian nationalism through anti-German
eentiments, and also' became an excellent fencer. Despite some
of the early opposition by Olga's father to a marriage between
Olga and Antons, Olga's family finally consented to such a union
and •Olga became Antons' wife in 1909. Subsequent to the comple-
tion of his studies Habil' s father worked as General Secretary in
the firm l!Konstuiis u in Riga, which thalt in artificial manure and
seeds. When the war broke out in 1914 there appeared to be a
migration Of Latvians toward Russia, particularly Leningrad,
because Of - an inipending German occupation-of Latvia. Consequently.
Hahn's mother and father moved to Leningrad with their children,
Margita q , born 1911, and' Ingrida N, born in 1913. After
the end t World War I in 1918, Antons returned to Latvia and
resided on his parents' farm in Vecpielga, where Clevland 0.
Hahn was born on 7 June, 1919. Shortly after this birth, in the
.same year, Antons moved rigr2. , t e„htsd., 11.37.f.teng1.116 where he procured a
position with the newly foundeli .1400an,.-State. Although Hahn •
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