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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.

  • p. 61 …this convoy of boats, carrying among others Mitrevics and.Andersons, left , the :Ventspils harbor. rrior t…
  • p. 62 …The first boat in Which Anderson and Dr. Ginters were traveling managed to escape and reached…
  • p. 69 …It is also Hahn's belief that Andersons (an Anflltree from Sweden who arrived in Latvia…
  • p. 78 …by s reporters in Plant (Najas) that Andersons Auld like to meet him. Unable to do…
  • p. 80 …Arnitis, engineer, Anderson, sailor, and Petersons and,Smits, and was:finaaced by SwediSh Church fends, the…
  • p. 135 …Janis/Andersons Was an agriculturalist. He was one of the directors of the "Mezpuiku" organization in…
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by the German authorities. This act eliminated the necessity for a chief of the
Perkonkrusts and therefore caused Celmins to leave the position as chief of the
entire complex: Shortly thereafteD. Celthins and his secretary, FelikiCivins,
served on the staff o(i;eneralpskars\l-ankers, /65/. imigenous chief of a Latvian
quizzling government (General Direktion des Innern).
Despite the fact that the Perkonkrusts was nonexistent, and hence Cletains
.supported by its former, members, most of *holm worked for Rikarde. Consequently
Ives uery )aiowledgeable of most all of the activities of Rikard i a group...
. (11):: One month after H began to work in the (a) subsection of the 0
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-4cintion of Riker:1 1 s group he was transferred to the more active subsection, the
b) , subsection of the 0 section. In this sub-section • H had to interrogate wit
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:n•,..ed.ses. who had ingormation regarding pro-Communists who were either in Latvia at
fiat tia .a; or had fled Latvia when the Russian forces 'retreated. As most • t
remembers the case of the former6atvian. . Supreme Court JusticeJ CAnkzvd
io had been forced by the IIKI/D to become an informaht. The reason that -enis ea/4
iutstanding in H r s memory is the fact H knew ANICRAVS family"pei7eci''
ecause .4nkiavs was such a highly placed person in the pre-war Latvian judicial
tM,because Ankralts himself freely admitted cooperation with the NKVD, and
eciase Ankravs wrote a long, detailed narrative regarding his NKVD recriiitnen
was not the leader, he still. had an indirect contact as will as some limited talris-.'
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diction over the R-group because the Perkonlcrusts continued to exist ille.g
eeting, •and actiyi‘s.
(11) In the very end of 1941 Itikards received a lot of complaints;
icUlarY H's procommunist actiiittes,.:.
dhting the previous Russian occupation; these complaints were not primarily
pe.itSO41 , pejudipeci:bUt rather expressed the feari‘theitH may have
RikarCCOCUP':AS-atilleCoMmuniet. In a Meeting:wit0;000401/1
te Iknowledgeable of fiC e; tiii'. PurPoice, and
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