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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. 1 …his life story.. .whiChAW:. . t .:;:l. had. never told to anyone' in -1,such detail and…
  • p. 4 …eventually almost disap peared, though he really never changed his basic ideas of free enterprise. From…
  • p. 9 …of freedom, and a person who had never talked that way before. Hahn, who realized the…
  • p. 10 …such articles should never be written and that-the way that . • Hahn hat eipressed"Iiinieelfwaf -triiite…
  • p. 13 …nationalistly motivated group and would no doubt never fight for the Communists! Since Valdemars frequently travelled…
  • p. 20 …Category C - Those persons who wished to join this organi- zation but who had never been…
  • p. 23 …This statement coincides with the truth : , never has Hahn noticed any press mention of Rucelis while…
  • p. 35 …4uri umii eters, This meeting which actually never Occured,,h40J41 .. . .. :: .......s..4.4'.; enf.: Eirrangedi the…
  • p. 51 …opnOrtUtity•te - '.fleejo-Seeden...,MitrevicsMhd..jiad really.,never.Stopped'his.actiiitiSpt -.-,WaS-:.aceepted;:,,eventhough he too…
  • p. 61 …Hahn was requested to reply by indorsement which he promised to do but which he never…
  • p. 64 …He took along 20,000 rubles and has never been heard of since. On 15 May…
  • p. 68 …know, began to complain that the "Colonel" never appeared in person, and should make at least…
  • p. 75 …d never catch bum '0.n'3 Oct 1945 Iiedainie and DamamiS.Were arrested in the…
  • p. 77 …he was having built, the cut-outs never returned. Hahn clamis that the reason they were…
  • p. 84 …Obviously -Hahn never knew the contents of the messages received and sent in this fashion; but…
  • p. 85 …Svikis, (whoa H terms very ambitious), for this as well as personal reasons, never revealed any…
  • p. 86 …SVANTESSON was and convicted on a charge of misappropriation of funds, as he never admitted his…
  • p. 87 …Later Zarins informed Hahn that he had never received this report whereupon Hahn sent him another…
  • p. 93 …Hahn claims that he never oceived the debriefing of these;he does not know whether Ginters…
  • p. 94 …Lukins:never -nantiOned either of,these.names to fialliSteinto,4spoks of only ono. Now •%k
  • p. 99 …TILBURY) never had been, is not now, and will never be Ale to procure recurits for…
  • p. 102 …This BILESKALNS never had the opporutnity to do. On the other hand, VaLDEMAR related to Hahn…
  • p. 104 …which would be'completeLi divorced from and never revealed to the Swedes and/or TILBURY. At…
  • p. 109 …SKOBE further mentioned that the DS will never fully understand Latvia
  • p. 113 …Nevertheless, Hahn stated that because of political differences they would never be able to come to…
  • p. 116 …Arrested by the .NKOD and was never heard from. 9. ValdemarXetersons Member of Hahn f s…
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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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