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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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fp• L Academy were not quite as good as those of his previous schools. This, to a great extent, made him feel that possibly he had chosen the wrong profession;- however he was stubborn enough not to admit this, particularly to his parents. While at this Aca- demy Hahn got acquainted with Jurijs Bumeisters, son- of the . famous Latvian socialist. (Later during the first communist occupation Jurijs Bumeisters helped Hahn a great deal). B. The First Soviet Occupation of Latvia (1) On 16 June .1.940 the traditional yearly Latvian National Song Festival was held at Daugavpils, and Hahn attended it. During the celebration the huge throng attending it felt that something was amiss because, although Ulmanis was scheduled to speak in person he did not appear. In place of this personal appearance Ulmanis spoke over the radio, which speech was trans- mitted through loudspeakers to the throng and in this speech he made his now-famous statement "you must remain in your place as IwilI remain in mine". This song festival was the last Latvian national affair in free Latvia. Daugavpils being very close to the Latvian-Russian border, was entered by the Russian forces very shortly after Hahn's train left for Riga. Upon arrival in Riga Hahn was first informed that the Communists had invaded his homeland, and it was then that Hahn realized that the Russian forces practically followed his train. On the 17th of June the Russian forces had entered Riga and pro-communist ele- ments conducted street demonstrations and engaged in battles with the police. Seeing this Hahn felt as though life had come to an end; he felt he couldn't stand all the political scenes in Riga where all the old ideas of freedom and independence were being destroyed. He consequently proceeded to leave Riga and went to the village of Krimulda in the vicinity of Sigulda, where he stayed wiyi his older sister for two months. It was there that Jurijs4Bumeisters, who was travelling about extolling the communist system and their "excellent plan for Latvia", looked up Hahn and knowing Hahn's patriotism, and considering him a friend, advised him to do nothing rash and to be sure and under- take no activity against the new Latvian State. Hahn states this was a very friendly meeting in which Bumeisters desired to help a friend, at the same time telling this friend that not all will be quite as bad as he thinks. In this conversa- tion Bumeisters further informed Hahn that the socialist organization to which he -belonged MU:been-active -In the Under- ground-Ulmanis days, and hence was now very powerful. Bumeisters left with the promise that he would help Hahn as soon as Hahn got over his wild and radical, as well as rash, desires to oppose the invaders. In the end of August another student visited Hahn and suggested that Hahn seek employment in the surveying work which was being done in the country in connection with the Communist Land Reform. This, according to Security t .7sIrme'!on SECRET
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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.