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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.
“Headquarters”9 pages
: Sbrurify Information C This jail was athnihistered by the looal SD unit whose chiet , let•LtI _ rIENNER /i ;-• /911 under whose direction the jail was supervised by a Latvian,1st Lt:') .fnu RUNKE, a sadist and drunkard who personally beat not only many eqnmunist inmates but also the horses which were an intergate part of the prison detail. 4 Thyough the aid ofJanitalins /92/ and Janis Zakis the seven inmates .secretly received food which the former donated voluntarily from their farms. At the -. same time-- Hahn and his friends found later-- Gustave Celmins was quite actively '.e,.0.„..c..011ecting food and money from all PERKONKRUSTS supporters for the purpose of aidcing . • those fellow members who had been jailed.Since H and his friends had received none of this aid, and since'Hug Ginters later informed them that Celmins had kept all these donations for his own use, the men, particularly Rikards, brought these aceneat.. • : . . tions-before . Celmins after their release. According to . H this particulikincident 7.imaentederCetnins most volnerable spot about which he is most critisized:. , • • , • ..• . _ ..:-.:During their imprisonment, the seven Rikards group members were ittera.fronitheir families, that the Germane were spreading tales that the,Rikards;.;' . • . . . up was net discontinued , because of political reasons, huybecause,of.'miit*repi;iay' ion of ::•.- . . • . . . . German government funds for which the 7 men -- who were also found guilty-- to 'be. jailed. This obviousely, was incorrect, though there was Sale question4mgerdihg,:? ' . . . . payment of wages and advances which was the responaib4ity of the chief of the.Admi • . • , , :istrative, support, and Finance section; these chargessaganist Pepkersons„ippearently J:Weracorrect,. for later he . seems to have repayed ilcertain.sum. .. inone of those 40 released prior to those 7 Who eventupliere.-lie144- . _ ..„ In the fallof 1943 there occured a reor9anization -..of thOralMiere: • • which' btOUghtiabout:.. the follOwing changes: :• • • • • : • . • .• • • ••,..•:.,..••••• a All communist' inmates Were transferred to,the...:..cOnceAtreity.19...,,, •• • • ','••••:,••,: . • : " • ivtSetit:tr-..,••,,,-;-•-• ••• : • •••::-• • ,SALASFIt8'on".28 Sept:1943:11A :_Flalmiers ,*,• • • • •■••••• •••••• • • • X. • • ..V....21.1;14,,.4-.•• 4 • . • - • • ' • l) "
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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.