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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 …and was extremely cooperative in giving his life story.. .whiChAW:. . t .:;:l. had. never told to…
  • p. 24 …judicial tM,because Ankralts himself freely admitted cooperation with the NKVD, and eciase Ankravs wrote a…
  • p. 26 …this is not a case of friendly cooperation to achieve the destriCtion of Communism, but rather…
  • p. 37 …Possible cooperation 4th ,theA3rit*sh., to:Toreignt7breadcasts'and,the,written.%re 4
  • p. 38 …All in all, H claims that he revealed a cooperatively minute amount of his • . • as well…
  • p. 52 …therefOrs, • • • 1 • the PPS continued to oppose cooperation With the JAGDVERBAMD untiLapproxitatelro4S. week after their -original…
  • p. 81 …Fearing that Hahn would possibly be persuaded to cooperate with =Other , group (thisd incidentally, is,Hahn4…
  • p. 87 …situation report wftbh Hahn had written in cooperation with Zalcmanis and which depicted the situation in…
  • p. 98 …and that henceforth the Swedish authorities would cooperate only with Tilbtry in any and all Latvian…
  • p. 103 …VALDEMARS related that he (VALDEMARS) haaagreed to cooperate with TILBURY giving TILBURT his word of honor…
  • p. 109 …material and chided Hahn that he was cooperating with the wrong man (meaning KALME). SKOBE further…
  • p. 110 …Since Kalme was unable to give more concrete datatbout cooperation with DYOLAIM, Hahn agreed to SKOBE…
  • p. 112 …with the TIMAAS so that he could begin cooperating with them and then slowly assume -113-
  • p. 113 …Andreason to whom he expressed his desire to cooperate enumerating all his qualifications, as well as…
  • p. 123 …Upon interrogation y H , he admitted cooperation with the Cheke and wrote a long, detailed narrative…
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then made him feel too sympathetic toward the person he was interrogating.
All in all it could be said that H.was dissatisfied with himself inasmuch
as he was of the firm conviction that such petty activity was not leading him
to his ultimate goal, the destruction of Communism.
As the German occupation of H's country progressed toward the German
supremacy goal, the Occupying authorities began to engage in various anti-
Latvian activities, making H realize that this is not a case of friendly
cooperation to achieve the destriCtion of Communism, but rather that a
new enemy-has arrived intent on destroying Latvian nationalism. Despite
realizing that it is no doubt this monstrous German force alonFwhicb
could destroy H's arch enemy,Olevertheless H and several other nationalis-
tically inclined friends began to think that they were duty bound to insure
the re-creation of the Latvian state if and when Communism were destroyed.
. Momentarily that entailed preservation of nationalism and nationalistic.
institutions which the Germans with all haste were in the process of destroy-
ing. So that such anti-Latvian acts be recorded H and Mitrevics began to
write down and Collect all such acts including changes in street names,
high taxes, German privileges, particularly those concerning food, etc.
Since H had. numerous friends, particularly in Jelgava the collection of
such German activities was not difficult and resulted in a steady flow
of such reports.
An excellent opportunity to enhince this activity of H's presented
C iteelf When Rikiiii4reofially taIlgeWith'H'end requested that he accept
an assignment to mirk for the SD. Bikard explained toll that in this .
poaition H mould have to check various applications'of . Latvians applying
for poiitions with the German occupying authoritielOekqeIePhdfibi,.4tc.
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