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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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- i; 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 _ . . -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 • • , :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-.' ' • 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 • 0 '
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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.