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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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Secwitv SECRET does not recall all the details of his father's first job with the Latvian State he does remember that Antons had some kind of position in the Latvian Archives. In 1920 Antons worked in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry as the Director of the Commerce Department. During this time Hahn's father gained some fame as the organizer of the first Latvian Commercial Exposition in Riga. In that same year Hahn's:father, along with the first Latvian Foreign Minister, Siegfrids Meierovics, was delegated by the Latvian Government to proceed to Poland where both were to con- tact Pilsudski, from whom they were to request aid for the clear- ance of the Latvian Province Latgale of all remnants of the Bolshevik Army. The two delegates were successful in this attempt, which paved the way for successful Polish recognition of the Latvian State and close, as well as friendly relations between Latvia and Poland. (Incidentally, Hahn's father wrote a book about this assignment which was destroyed by the Communists in 1940) In 1922 Hahn's father participated in the Bulduri Con- ference, where an unsuccessful attempt was made to unify the three Baltic states, Poland, and Finland. In that same year, 1922, Hahn's father left the aforementioned ministry and became Secretary to the Board of Directors of the Latvian State Bank. This being a somewhat inactive position, Hahn's father was also a Department Chief in this same bank, with which he remained until the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940. In the 1920s Behn's father created the firm "Agronoms", of which he was Executive Director, and which dealt in farm supplies. This firm had connections with Sweden, Denmark, and England.. He re- mained with this firm until 1930, when it ap peared that the firm was about to go into bankruptcy, and in order to avert this the firm was consolidated with "Konsums" and emerged as the famous farm supply house "Turiba", an Ulmanis-supported project. FTOM 1935 to 1944 Hahn's father also taught Commerce and Economy in the Clan Commercial' School in Riga. Politically Hahn's father was a liberal, which in Latvia .meant that he belonged to the so-called "Democratic Center". Shortly before the Ulmanis'"coup d'etat" in 1934, Blodnieks, who WaS the 'last Latvian Prime Minister, and who wanted to change the existing cabinet at that time, informed Hahn's father that he would propose-him - as Minister of Finance-or as Minister Of. Commerde and Industry. The aforementioned "coup" eliminated this possibility. Because of his basic belief in the principle of free enterprise and government exclusion from business, Hahn's father was always an out-spoken anti-Dlmanis individual. Because of an anti4lmanis speech which Hahn's father made in Vecpiebalga SeT.717:il* r.:: 7 : ;'-r
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