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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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tion,of the plot of 20 July 1944, removed all stay-behind activities, which the5ncon-
sidered political .,.from the army, and assigned this responsibility to the SS. Kurelis.,
- under the direction of the 112th Comb. Int. group, was considered -- in addition
to everything else - unreliable. The reason that this same fate did not meet H ancitha,
ITS, was that the P.Ps, prior to the liquidation of Kurelis group, Was transferredson'..:-
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their: own to and came under the jurisdiction of the "JAGINERBANW.Which',
was theineWlycreated BB department charged with this neww SS assi@mnent-tIcotitral•
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inci.direction of staybehind matters:
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• front having become stabilized, the 212th tomb Int . group returnectio.
*Via and continued its,attivity of dispatching agents behind theRussien lines, for
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straight military'pupposes and aims. As already mentioned this group then had.laSt',;•,
all staAbehind responsibilities, though it still did keep up contact With the PPS. . .
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"tonians:menaged to proclaim their independence and establish atem0Orirk'gaVeilmient'::;
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' sbrodint about some streetfighting With the German Army remhants:.
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Mf.er-.:with:the aid of the Latvian Legion. Rikards from PPS was assigned. the liaison
*th;•this. proviaional government /99/ which had made all preperations,t6,tlee::.
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