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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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under his control. In the beginning of July sturisAp .A0en 40,40 to return
to his native area the vicinity of Hirzgale where be,P on1L.nuee his
partisan activities. Prior to leaving he gaveHahn all his contacts which Hahn
subsequently used to great advantage. Hahn later heard that Stuns had success-
fully reached his native area and was receiving sufficient support. Stuns
assistant Lt. fnu . nib's remained in the vicinity of Zlekas and proved to be_ —
extremely active in the fature.
After a 4 days stay in zlekas, Hahn proceeded to the vicinity of Dundaga
where be kept his previously arranged meeting with the Talai group. This meeting .
revealed that this group was by far the largest consisting of approximately 90
me and that the group had contact with other groups in the area who were led by:
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fnu elsbergs f135/,(L4fnu 4bensaks (operated in Engure area), and Major) fnu
blamenkalejs /136/. This group, it was also found, was already at that time
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publishing and distributing news from the free world which they procured via
radio monitoring. Prior to departing, Hahn arranged . a future meeting.
On their way to Lielirbe, whoze they hoped to find news about Jansons
and'others, they met 2 foresters, inn' ankalmm from Olinda and fnLirosnikovs /137/
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froarDundSga. The latter was a friend of Mitrevies and quite anxious to flee to
Sweden. Hahn promised he would see about this possibility and kept these two
foresters in mind as future contacts who had good relations with the Russians.
Prior to arriving in L'el.irbe, Kadikis shot a Russian who happened upon the group.
This created a disturbance and the Russians began combing the ieods, causing Hahn
' and ' his , groupto leave the area and head for theZlekas area-.
(4 1 0 Journeying to Zlekas they found Janis alemanis and 1st Lt. trikkbezgruntnidn
whom they added to the group. Proceeding further they also located war correspondent . :•
Teter's- avejs who also joined the group. Arriving in Zlekas in the end of July 1945
Seoul tilg* group0 kl-.o.,-... .
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. and having two war correspondents, Savejs and .Z Hahn's began
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