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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.

  • p. 1 …his life story.. .whiChAW:. . t .:;:l. had. never told to anyone' in -1,such detail and…
  • p. 4 …eventually almost disap peared, though he really never changed his basic ideas of free enterprise. From…
  • p. 9 …of freedom, and a person who had never talked that way before. Hahn, who realized the…
  • p. 10 …such articles should never be written and that-the way that . • Hahn hat eipressed"Iiinieelfwaf -triiite…
  • p. 13 …nationalistly motivated group and would no doubt never fight for the Communists! Since Valdemars frequently travelled…
  • p. 20 …Category C - Those persons who wished to join this organi- zation but who had never been…
  • p. 23 …This statement coincides with the truth : , never has Hahn noticed any press mention of Rucelis while…
  • p. 35 …4uri umii eters, This meeting which actually never Occured,,h40J41 .. . .. :: .......s..4.4'.; enf.: Eirrangedi the…
  • p. 51 …opnOrtUtity•te - '.fleejo-Seeden...,MitrevicsMhd..jiad really.,never.Stopped'his.actiiitiSpt -.-,WaS-:.aceepted;:,,eventhough he too…
  • p. 61 …Hahn was requested to reply by indorsement which he promised to do but which he never…
  • p. 64 …He took along 20,000 rubles and has never been heard of since. On 15 May…
  • p. 68 …know, began to complain that the "Colonel" never appeared in person, and should make at least…
  • p. 75 …d never catch bum '0.n'3 Oct 1945 Iiedainie and DamamiS.Were arrested in the…
  • p. 77 …he was having built, the cut-outs never returned. Hahn clamis that the reason they were…
  • p. 84 …Obviously -Hahn never knew the contents of the messages received and sent in this fashion; but…
  • p. 85 …Svikis, (whoa H terms very ambitious), for this as well as personal reasons, never revealed any…
  • p. 86 …SVANTESSON was and convicted on a charge of misappropriation of funds, as he never admitted his…
  • p. 87 …Later Zarins informed Hahn that he had never received this report whereupon Hahn sent him another…
  • p. 93 …Hahn claims that he never oceived the debriefing of these;he does not know whether Ginters…
  • p. 94 …Lukins:never -nantiOned either of,these.names to fialliSteinto,4spoks of only ono. Now •%k
  • p. 99 …TILBURY) never had been, is not now, and will never be Ale to procure recurits for…
  • p. 102 …This BILESKALNS never had the opporutnity to do. On the other hand, VaLDEMAR related to Hahn…
  • p. 104 …which would be'completeLi divorced from and never revealed to the Swedes and/or TILBURY. At…
  • p. 109 …SKOBE further mentioned that the DS will never fully understand Latvia
  • p. 113 …Nevertheless, Hahn stated that because of political differences they would never be able to come to…
  • p. 116 …Arrested by the .NKOD and was never heard from. 9. ValdemarXetersons Member of Hahn f s…
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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
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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-
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