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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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• 1. Secur-20 hy 0177.r. the Perkonkrusts Hahn met Mitrevics, who informed him that all the underground work that Hahn had performed during the Com- munist occupation -- with a few exceptions -- was on either direct or indirect orders from Feliks Rikards' group. Hahn was requested to write a report outlining all his activities in Jelgava and Riga; this report was then given to Rikards' as- sistant, Aleksandrs Mittenbergs /W. • (2) The Perkonkrusts, which during the very early days of the German occupation, was the leading indigenous element in Latvia, made the following request of the population: That persons register in the following categories -- Category A - Those persons who had been members of the Perkonkrusts prior to 1940. B - Those persons ( who wished to register) whoCategory had worked in the anti-communist underground during 1940-41 under the leadership and guidance of the Perkonkrusts or its mem- bers, yet who had never been members of the Perkonkrusts. Category C - Those persons who wished to join this organi- zation but who had never been members nor who had never participated in underground . activities sponsored or led by the Perkon-. krusts organization. All of this registering was obviously voluntary and was carried out with the intention that having been the pro-German faction . prior to 1940 the Perkonkrusts would now become the Latvian puppet government under the leadership of Celmins, yet under the complete direction of the German occupying authorities. Hahn, as a well-qualified person, joined the aforementioned category B, not because of political concurrence, but rather because he believed that well-qualified men with good. intentions belonged to it. • (3) The registration, as outlined above, having been completed in the very early days of the German occupation, two very definite groups appeared to take shape within the Perkon- krusts: .(A) Sondergruppe R (RikaZd2.-- the assignment of this group Wit'tO invesbegate-all Communists' _affairs, locate re- maining communists, and press prosecution. This group could be Considered a type of internal political security police. The results of the investigations conducted by this group were turned over to the. German authorities, who prosecuted political of- fenders. It later developed -- and Hahn thought this Odd. -- that in addition to investigating Communists and persons suspected Security Irf.7.1rnrozon SECF--)E -_
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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.