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his parents in Riga gave Hahn the opportunity to collect a few
of his old and trusted friends and form a resistance group
whose aim it was to attempt to infiltrate the Communist-con-
trolle government positions so as to be able to restrain some
of it radical mlicies. esides Hahn this group consisted of
Janis Jar:sans af, MartineItreslins 67, and Eduard Busers .
'Slily after they Agreed- that they would work-TO-git'er"aS a clan-
destine group, these four members decided that Hahn would try
to enlist several co-workers in the Jelgava area, while the
otherhree, who were attending the University in Riga, would
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do th same in this city. With this in mind Hahn turned to
Oskars Mitrevics, who was . a fellow student in Jelgava studying
Tfdaitry. Mitievics was a member of the nationalistic Latvian
organization lianags, as well as the student fraternity Celonija.
Because of the fact that Hahn's father was also a Celonija.
member Mitrevics felt that he could have confidence in Hahn and
'advised Hahn,when the latter asked hi* if he knew of any under-
cepted Hahn requested him to organize a na7which would
ground organization, to turn to JaniaGreste . Greste ac-
and
distribute the illegal monthly anti-communist publication "Zinotajs"
(Reporter) and at the same time also enlisted Hahn in the sale
of small metal Latvian national color emblems. Greste's ad-
vice to Hahn was to attempt to climb the Communist ladder in
the academic field so as to be of help in the upper brackets of
the communist structure. In order to accomplish this Hahn de-
cided to turn to Bumeisters, who, of course, did not realize
Hahn's true reasons. .Expressing his desire to join the so-called
Culture Commission of Jelgava Academy, which ruled all social
and cultural functions, Hahn prevailed upon Bumeisters to aid
him in joining, which Bumeisters did. Shortly thereafter
Bumeisters, who was convinced that Hahn had had a change of
heart and was now working for the Communist cause, requested that
Hahn become the student reporter for the Communist publication
"Zemgales Komuniste. For the purpose of averting suspicion
of his underground activity Hahn also became active in the fol-
lowing fields: He wormed his way into the Academy Bulletin,
of which he became editor; He became cheer leader FO—i—iiiiilp
which expounded Communist theory during numerous demonstrations;
He also was again permitledt)become Administrative Assistant to
the chorus Director; he became administrative leader of cer-
tain sports.
2) In thcLearly- ,history Of Hahn's resistance group
he added 1fo the Riga f'dtiOn of thirgroup an old'friend -
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