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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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r, Socub■:y SE (46. As Hahn later discovered, the former Jagdverband radio operator fnuiLaiva had been apprehended in Baldone in June 1945. After he had been interrogated he was coerced into service for the NKVD with the assignment to watch all trains arriving in the railroad station in Riga and report any familiar partisan and/or underground figures. On one occasion he spotted Abolins who was returning from a trip to Kuldiga..Laiva, who was acquainted with Abolins, began a conversation with him and inquired about the former Jagdverband and PPS members, their whereabouts, and activities. yLbolins, believing Laiva to be under no control, revealed all be knew of Hahn and his group which was, however, limited. hereupon , in Kuldiga, i stranger contacted the aforementioned nurse, 1Hnilija Grintals /138/, and using-the proper parole, delivered some muill'from Hahn's parents. At this point the nurse WA arrested and interrogated by the NKVD whom she informed she brought such letters to the woods where she VAS handsomely rewarded for her services. The chief of the Kuldiga NKVD, an un- identified colonel, prevailed upon the girl to lead the NKMD to the usual meeting place in the woods, and, cautioning her to act as though nothing was amiss; gave her Hahn's letters to deliver as usual. EmiliJa Orintals, who knew the woods unusually well, was able to elude the NKVD detachment and, after walking through the woods all night, finally reached Hahn and his friends the following day. ' After she related her experiences and delivered the letters, she remained with the group and lived illegally. _— - On his next trip to Kuraeme,_Abolins accompanied by Laiva, arrived in the vicinity of lake Dsma and, for the first time, met some partisans, including Sternbergs. During this visit Abolins managed unobtrusively to inform Sternbergs that*LaiVa 12 working for the NKVD and that he himself has also been forced to work for it. Abolits begged Sternbergs to play along With them because otherwiset' e reprisals would meet his Samar. 410116FITy tinfOrme::013 SECRET
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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.