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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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7- Security hicirimtiort %.,L. German sympathies as was known to the SD. All that H observed was recorded from memory and transmitted to Rikard who, Hahn feels, passed this infor- mation on, though he doesn't know a copy of this summary was also given' to Celmins. At one time H seriously considered making photographic copies of all information he saw, but thought the riek too great and therefore abandoned this idea. In the beginning of March 1942 -- because of the extensiveness of . the information . at the disposal of Hahn, he began to record this information (typewrit en) in a bi—weekly summary being assisted in this job at that time by Romans ternbergs._ (13) As this information that Hahn was receiving assumed very vol- uminous proportions, enabling him to write extremely lengthly bl-weekly. reports, Mitrevice thought it a good idea to exePpt such covert information from. these reports that would be of interest to the German authorities and supply them with a'similar be—weekly report. Behind all this 'was Mitrevielis idea that. if sufficient interest in such a product were Aroused in the German authorities it could give Mitrevics the opportunity to forn an infor - mation section attached to Rikard's group. The covert purpose for such an information section being a nationalistically-motivated anti—German espionage center. (14) As the gathering of such information progressed successfully, , further compilations were made of such ite6s as foreign broadcasts, particularly those of the BBC and some American broadcasts, current and anti-German jokes and puns, and rumors. The BBC monitoring was performed by. II and VernerAlumenaus and several others whom Hahn organised into a ,little 'group so that 411 schedules Securhy F.zr, b - „.-; L.A..IN. could be observed.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 146 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.