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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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L. -2- 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 • . it ,■• 1. . . • q .,....., :b. 'WY' C %a 61, 1 d •. •
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