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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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security trif„,„:,„!on r- During this time Hahn also contacted two fores‘eie-tath iwh.cM , ,he was acq lainted and who resided i the vicinity of his bunker. These foresters, fnu Blumenfelds and Olgerts smanis (who at that time was using the documented (alias) Olgertskiepins) were trusted by the connunists and supported Hahn quite extensively. On 3 June Hahn and his original traveling companion as well as two additional members left the bunker and proceeded toward Talsi for the purpose of locating the Talsi partisan hq. Locating the previously arranged dead, letter. drop, they found no news and left a message at a live drop to meet on a future date. From there Hahn's group proceeded to the vicinity of Piltene arriving there in the middle of June 1945. There they managed to locate the Piltenes group as well as VilisiZvanitajs who remained with the group. The Piltene group, it was _— found, had added a member to its ranks, Let t LCIVair\ ogs, a former Legion officert who had been wounded in the woods and picked up by the Piltenes partisans. Speaking several languages, including Russian and English, Vairogs listened to news broad- casts in those languages, and hoped to be able to escape to delgium where the offi- cers of the Latvian legion had previously arranged to meet. Hahn and his group next proceeded to return to Kuldiga where they found the partisan groups had been annihilated and that they could find no news regarding Jansons whereabouts whom they had been seeking. In the end of June Rahn shot and killed his first and only human being, a Russian ROD man who came to inquire as to who Kahn and Sternbergs were. On that same day Hahn met Jansons wife who also was trying to locate her husband. Though she had no futther news about him, she did relate all she knew about the last boat convoy and how the participants had fared. Hahn and companions then continued tiagicirLITItyurt:11317:-.- as where they con- tacted Lt. Stuns who then arranged that Hahn$ ell on main in the btutkers.,, / 49'''-' t7 • E_ - -4
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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.