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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. 61 …this convoy of boats, carrying among others Mitrevics and.Andersons, left , the :Ventspils harbor. rrior t…
  • p. 62 …The first boat in Which Anderson and Dr. Ginters were traveling managed to escape and reached…
  • p. 69 …It is also Hahn's belief that Andersons (an Anflltree from Sweden who arrived in Latvia…
  • p. 78 …by s reporters in Plant (Najas) that Andersons Auld like to meet him. Unable to do…
  • p. 80 …Arnitis, engineer, Anderson, sailor, and Petersons and,Smits, and was:finaaced by SwediSh Church fends, the…
  • p. 135 …Janis/Andersons Was an agriculturalist. He was one of the directors of the "Mezpuiku" organization in…
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After approximately three months' activity'and assignment in the SD
Hahn began to fdel insecure and asked Captain Liebram for a release, basing
his request on the fact that Hahn did not feel quite at home among all the
Germans who worked in the organization. Being a very understanding and par-
ticularly to Hahn, sympathetic individual, Liebram granted this request.
It should be noted that H felt insecure because on several occasions when
he was rummaging through various files he was observed in this astivity by
Sgt. Goltz, in whose mind H had aroused some suspicion -- although at the
time Hahn could satisfactorily explain away his curiosity in files with
which he was not concerned.
(15) Returning to his original organization from the SD, Hahn was
assigned to the job of block leader in addition to his other normal duties.
(A block leader, and in this case particularly Hahn, was a person who had
• under his jurisdiction between 30 to 40 persons who were members of the
Perkonkrusts and whom he had to visit once a month, collect dues, report
changes in policies, and directives, and other incidental organizational
news, and whose suggestions and views he was obliged to report back.)
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Apparently Hahn satisfactorily completed and performed all nag assign-
ments and therefore he was informed by the chief of the cardfile subsection
that he had been accepted by the Rerkonkrusts as one tithe old fightersu
. (alter ampfer).
In the summer of 1942. Hahn received an order from Celmins, through
Rikards that he was to proceed to the - rural sections of Latvia to deter-
mine the general mood and thinking of the population and to contact all.the
covert members who were reporting to the headquarters through the open mails.
On this trip Hahn was accompanied . titftman Sternbergs. Travelling about •
. Skurity
they arrived at the conclusion that because of the political lines w h
the Perkenkrusts has taken during the initial phase of the German o •
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