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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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Rikard further explained thel' H's true aim would be to observe the inner
workings of the SD as well as its pies and intentions in Latvia. It mas
then that H was informed that Martins Balodis was already assigned to the
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SD and working in the same overt as well as convert capacities; H with his
excellent German language qualifications was to replace Balodis, who
, could not handle this language. Balodis was therefore recalled to his
original assignment in Rikard's group. H accepted and was assigned to
SD, Abteilung III, and worked in its card file section. The chief of
Abteilung III wasi CaptaitijAebram; We immediate supervisor, the chief
of the cajrd file section, was Sgt. Fritz' Grimm of Westfalia, whose assistant
was(Bgt ltz of Bavar4. (It was Goltz who later arrested H.)
The following persons (Latvians) also Were in the service of the SD,
but not i1ith. the covert assignment that H had: (Wra .?'Alos/69/Akra Vidins
14azprecinieks/70%; Vilis\Bema ../724 FHBIRodUns /734 Olgerts .I /70i,
tDreimañis/74/,‘ L. rmalia/75/, FITIPEI.edis /76/, FRUIZarins /77/, Brno°.
-/78/, JanikBankavs.../79/, YNOFetersons /804 FIR4Didrichsnne./814
Geide /824 RKB/Popove/83/, IFNU s /84/. "40f.
Working in this capacity H had the opportunity -- being very cautious--
occasionally to glance at the records of more or less famous and outstanding
Latvians, known organizations, and Aituation reports. Occasionally H had
the opportunity to get a glimpse of some very important documents, which
were !mown in the Latvian circlei-as "bombs". One such, and possibly
, the most important document which Hahn saw was Himmler's and Modem's /85/
. disputed and proposals regarding future plans for German colonization of
Latvia. /86/. H also had the opportunity to see and later report to-the
individuals concerned, information pertaining to such individuals' anti=
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