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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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b. Through Janis Abolins, who haa 6eao-nahn's group's radio operator.
Abolins had been apprehended by Russian patrols, but was released after at
least a month in a screening camp. After he had traveled to Riga, he procured
a job in his former place of employment, the Sampeteris radio station. In the
end' of July 1945 Abolins journeyed to Kuldiga so as to locate his friends and
give them as much aid as possible. He was able to reach Hahn through a nurse
in Kuldiga to whom he then monthly brought letters from Hahn's parents and who
would then give his letters from Hahn to his parents.
These letters informed Hahn that his father is employed as a lecturer
in political economy at the Riga University. In answer to Hahn's question,. his
'father informed him that Hahn could spend the winter. -- if he could make his way
toward Riga --'either in Melluzi with his oldest sister's mother-in-law,
'Mrs. BiUmanis /139/ or in their empty seashore home in Ayoti. In addition to
that, Hahn'e_father related many rumors that were being heard and the fact that
Habn's.cousin Julij+zolins . /140/ had returned from Russia and was an NNVD
.official in Liepaja. (Ju*s Ozolins disappeared in 1941 when the'BUssiens
retreated and Was believed to have forceabli been taken along by the retreating
- Russians.) Hahn feels somewhat guilty that Julius Ozolins became a member of the
NXVD, because he believes he set a bad example when he was chairman of the Culture
Committee in 1940/41 which Julijs Ozolins followed.
(45.) , On 3 August 1945, Olgertekbietis.brought the news from Kuldiga that
.Jankivs is located in the vicinity of Kabile and is desirous.; of joining Kahn's
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group. On this occasion Labietis had brought along Jankavs radio operator, the
aforementioned Janis. It was later decided that Jankavs would be accepted and
Would be . added to the Central group which was actual/y. led by.Sternbergs,bUt
which supPeiedly Was the seat of the fictitious "Colonel". . It is noteworthy
that %lackeys was accepted only as.14ccgdfliciailmiglire:Wit not as any leader..
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