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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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12-416' i• Y '40nm:on8 ,desired results. nrhe only difficulty encbuntefed . was that occasionally same of the other members of Hahn t s immediate group who felt they should be in the know, began to complain that the "Colonel" never appeared in person, and should make at least one speech. Until Hahn left Kurzeme no real "colonel" Or someone to pose as such had been found. (43.) After the decisions of the Potsdam agreement were heard by the Information Section chief, Vairogs, it became evident that the Latvian partisans could expect no aid from the west. Consequently, Vairogs, accompanied by approximately 5 men proceeded toward Poland in an attempt to get to western Germany, and then on to Belgium where he hoped to find the officers of the Latvian Legion. • Having heard the results of the Potsdam conference and knowing that Eitrevics had been unable to reach Sweden, Hahn felt it his duty to try to reach Sweden so that he can convince the west of the plight of the Latvian partisans. Consequently he and th following men proceeded to Jurkalne where they hoped to ' find a boatr(14t Lt::j bezgruntnieks, Janitalcmania, ViliShvanitajs,_ _ Eduarts (last name is forgotten), and radio operator Janis (last name is forgotten). In the vicinity of Jurkalne Hahn!s group met two other groups composed of, former Legionnaires who had already been looking for a chance to flee, but had been unsuccessful. The three groups joined forces-for the purpose of organizing a flight to Sweden by boat. At this time Hahn had already been able to contact Valdemars through some cut-outs . through ,which he requested Valderaar to procnre a , oat. For this purpose Hahn sent Valdemars,7,000 rubles, in the belief that 'Valdemars, who was legal and working as a chauffeur for the Wool and Leather Central in Ventspils, could no doubt get someone to build such a boat. Hahn hoped to use this boat, if none could be procured in the vicinity of Jurkalne. IlcurItt 1.7.1:rmalion As time progressed, Hahn lost contact with Valli and ei found that Voldemai; Pliederis who was building thiSIj s was arrested. 0 ' 2
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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.