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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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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
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latter took this proposal td ' Lt. Col..:DZenitis /03/ Chief of the Aizsargi, who
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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
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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 !
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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."
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