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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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Seturliy S 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.) tis 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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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.