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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.
. , Security fo7.3n Fr'' was not necessary for the latter to prove in tfteer i,bitdecimentary evi- dence any of his former activities. At that same time H's former Academy friends informed him that in their investigation of former NKVD records in Jelgava they had uncove a docu in eddocument which indicated that H, along with rdKarlis gelis and FVU'Smidris, were slated for arrest by the NKVD because of illegal anti-communist activities in the Jelgava Academy. (It was Smidris who actually uncovered this information in the end of 1941.). When Hahn was in Jelgava shortly after the above-mentioned incident, Q H took the opportunity to visit the office of the Latvian Political Police ief, Rita(etra • /67/ -There H talked to one of Metres assistants Pe-tere.. rC1 . .. ' - )als to whom H expressed willingness to write a complete report outlining not only his activities at the Academy during the Communist occupation,' but.alse the activities, names, and other data about Other Communists known to him. Cimals expressed regret that H did not do this in the very first few days after the Russian retreat and stated that at this tine the. entire matter was self-evident to the political authorities and there was no need for H to write such a report.: !tetra, incidentilly, was a secret informant for Nikard. (12) After working about 4 month in the investigations sub--section, -H.began to feel that his work had little if any importanda and would not * lead him to his ultimate goal, the active fight with Communism. This feel,. - ing developed when he realised that_all the Persons,he was interrogating, . , • were or had been small fria in the Cosimunist machine; , He also felt that his lack of experience in interrogations was the cause of his personal :', • . reprehension', and that' thislack Of experience also causedhimio believe Mest , illet,the infortatipn elicieted during such interrogations, which.. Security ingtiott .:. 4 C:,:l.r.r..r.),FT ,....0-...•„, F-:, ,,... •
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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.