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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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L17 Cini. i: • — : . to the various police precincts. T• Vinsons andlikards, who had in the meantime joined thiAizsargi, were assigned to the 14th police precinct where to their surprise they found Hahn at work. Hahn then related his stay-behind idea to jansons, who wrote it up in a proposal form and passed it on to Rickards. The i// latter took this proposal td ' Lt. Col..:DZenitis /03/ Chief of the Aizsargi, who \. -- felt that such stay-behind unit -- which Hahn named HAnti-Bolshevic Partisan Hq" (rPC) ..- would become detrimental to the Aizsargi inasmuch as such a group would start its activities by armed resistance to the Germans causing them to outlaw the Aizsargi. Neverthel,ss, upon the insistence of Eikards, Dzenitis consented, with the provision that the PPS would operate clandestinely as an integral part of the Riga Aizsargi Begiments, Communications Sattali , special assignment group. This Aizsargi Regiment was commanded by Lt. Col„. Vitols while is the Communications Battalion was under the command of Rudo1f+Turks,/04/. Though Hahn himself did not have the opportunity to take part in all this preliminary work -- being kept busy by his job of interpreter -- he was, however, kept fully, informed of all activities in behalf of the formation of the PPS. Much to the regret of the Hahn - Janson - Elkards triumvirate, the Aizsargi were unable to furnish proper support to the RFS causing Rikards to contact some former friends who were at that time with the German Frontaufklarungstrupp (Combat Intelligence Unit) 212, under the command of L4Hasselmann whose assistant was Lt.. von Firks.. Another fficer of th s unit was a(Lt4 ,..,.)hubert who, after the war, has contacted Janis Ims, : Prof: Endzins and otherl in Germany. The ! . ,..; 212th Comb. Int. unit seemed very interested in Rikards plans for stay-behind -operations and'indicated thit they would support the unit even though: "You may curse us (Germans), just as long as you don't fire upon us." Armed with this promise the PPS began to form small d600100 ''' roUpS in the ilift:;;;;XIZt::%;:;, were lP :gur::::e: rural Areas supplying them with radio sets (for th O e lour. center informed), arms, and explOeCUril f.--
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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.