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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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tnt'orrnnUon SE • be created. Hahn, supported by mitrevics proposed Va'.1■1M-aiirs as the political head while the aforementioned Col. Osis would become the military chief. For this purpose Hahn and Mitrevics proposed they fly to Germany. Jankavs who reported this to his superiors received a favorable reply and Hahn and Mitrevics made the necessary preparations for their journey to Germany. However, the plane at was to fly them to Germany brought from Germany AleksandrsVkmentins an01. Daugavietis •• . /331/who advised Hahn and Mitrevics that it was useless to attempt anything in - .Germany because complete confusion reigned there. This made Hahn and Mitrevics. decide to cancel their flight. (39.) shortly after the German liquidation of Kurelis group, 200 of its members .managed to hide in the Kurzeme forests and after awhile joined a communist partisan group, known as the "Red Arrow". In the middle of April l945Hihn happened to meet one of these 200 men, Sgt. Benitis /132/, who informed Hahn that the former Karelia group members were desirous of leaving the company of the "Red Arrow" group because they had nothing other than an illegal existence in common with that group and because the Germans were hunting them because they were erroneously thought to be members of the "Red Arraign . Benitis indicated that the 200 men were willing to fight the Blasius if the Germane would permit them to legalize themselves. Hahn related this to jankavs who contacted the SS Chief in Kurzeme and procured his consent to permit these 200 men to come out of the woods and legalize themselves. The intent behind this was that these 200 men would then . be added to Jankavs (Jagdverbands) stay-behind organization. Because of transporta-, Cj - U.= difficulties Hahn was unable to arrive on times the appointed meeting' place where these men were to be met, with the result that the men feared some art of deception from the German side and, utilizing the lull in the German attempts to locate them,..luccessfully escaped from their area failing .to keep c1y trf.::nnation TPET
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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.