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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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Seetsrlitfleforin.*Ilon • c C. • meeting which would take place. on 24 Sept 1945 at the notthern end of Lake usu. Until • this following meeting it was hoped STERNBMS group would be able to locate and propo.se . a suitable military figure as leader for all Kurieme partisans: Rternbbrgs . group had at that time, paectically decided to propose Maj. Akmenkals,whb was with the Talsi partisans in th e- vicinity or Valdtmarpila. /A LS (48) The 2nd partisan meeting /which was scheduled for 24 Sept . 1952 did not . -take,Tilace . because of the aforementionea incident with LAIVA. The cancellation wae .not. known. to H o proceeded from the vicinity of JIM:ALfh. , . COOUdolf :Opmanis (142/ who, H believed, could also ':46eitinnef, leader of the KURZEME partisans and undergrounds. was . informed about the Lakva incident, the cancellation of . • • •fie . tinal interrogation of LAVIA. Between. H and Stcrnbergs group it Was:then decidel.L• . . Opinemis was not suite the Wif individual for the position of leaderi...:thOU ' s'himself,:was . quite willing to undertake the assigrment, it was felt.th'at-he. not.:p.Oesess the needed qualifications. ,..H. then . Saw Sternbergs . off to Riga and returned to the Vicinity of JURKALNE: OPManiS.With him. At this time, in prbperation .for H's trip to:Sweden;,the.1:; oJian .Janis (Last name unknown) prepared 1.1 signal plan for H's use (49) . In the end of September 1945 H was vieitfed by'ZIEDAINIS.:whO'Wentee.t:-_ . . ., dieCues partisan support activities. He also reported that an emploYee of hiOd ICOntrat:hadbeen arrestedI Aich H Vieked as a warning, but whieh Ziedainis disMiSi . . . % ae.:insighificent. , At thPt iime-a began to feel that Ziedainis w04 lacked the necese - , . • „ 0r:3°nel-security in that he wrote down all names e contacts, etc, Though Ziedainid. ::'".. . ....•. • , Oiarned,about . thiS, he' felt that there was nothing tolear, because . the Russians.. d never catch bum '0.n'3 Oct 1945 Iiedainie and DamamiS.Were arrested in the . . dif:Of : theRbed.Oentral.. This was reported.tO.H.by-Mrs...lansons:..-H,..then:initr* 6:7isturnliO .:Ventipila.and.warnAll:Persons. .Who the.Ziedamis'and.pDamate:MA 40/44ifi.C64 ..!Pre#'.A#PVIkiintrA144$C0fors'.the:eiPitti2dtiOn4petkUC • 4 . • . . NS to lake'U&MA. taking be considered for the Arriving at like q the meeting, 'and
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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.