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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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Sem.Ay : situation more iniensley. Though they did send two female cut-outs to Valdemare to check on the progress of the boat he was having built, the cut-outs never returned. Hahn clamis that the reason they were somewhat reluctant about leaving till then were the persistent rumors that soon the western allies would arrive in Riga. These rumors were appearently originated by the NEVD so as to raise the general moraleand to cause the partisans to leave the woods which same groups actually did because they believed that, since an order was given to all janitors to clean their premises, the western force could not be long in coming. • SNOBS was of the opinion that he and Hahn must leave Kormene as quickly as , possible because the Russians would, no doubt, find them sooner or later, 'and must also be knowledgeable of their plans to flee to SWeden. The only difference of opinion 4 between Hahn and Skobs consisted in the Way the trip is to be undertaken the former , felt that a boat and crywimust be procured by force, at gun point since one or two members of a crew would no doubt desire to flee, but a/1 four necessary crew can would surely not have this desire. The latter, however, believed that they must all claim • to be NXVD can who would order same fishermen to take them out to sea so as to catch a boattUl of spies that is reportedly on its way to Latvia. In this plan one can was to be in Russian uniform The latter plan was used and Skpbe was unanimoustily appointed leader of the entire undertaking . It was felt that should their deception be discovered, Helms idea of force could still be employed. Procurring a uniform of a Latvian who had been discharged fron the Russian Any because of tuberculosis, Hahn began to seek “ gasoline for the group and to convince a segment of their group which opposed their • plan to flee and desired to remain ikKurzeme, to cover the elbarkation of the fleeing group. Hahn sucessfully completed his assignments, while Skobs.used'his group to . reconnoiter the sea shore, find the best boat available, chOee the approaches from the forest, and assign specific tasks to all participants. Security
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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.