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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 …and was extremely cooperative in giving his life story.. .whiChAW:. . t .:;:l. had. never told to…
  • p. 24 …judicial tM,because Ankralts himself freely admitted cooperation with the NKVD, and eciase Ankravs wrote a…
  • p. 26 …this is not a case of friendly cooperation to achieve the destriCtion of Communism, but rather…
  • p. 37 …Possible cooperation 4th ,theA3rit*sh., to:Toreignt7breadcasts'and,the,written.%re 4
  • p. 38 …All in all, H claims that he revealed a cooperatively minute amount of his • . • as well…
  • p. 52 …therefOrs, • • • 1 • the PPS continued to oppose cooperation With the JAGDVERBAMD untiLapproxitatelro4S. week after their -original…
  • p. 81 …Fearing that Hahn would possibly be persuaded to cooperate with =Other , group (thisd incidentally, is,Hahn4…
  • p. 87 …situation report wftbh Hahn had written in cooperation with Zalcmanis and which depicted the situation in…
  • p. 98 …and that henceforth the Swedish authorities would cooperate only with Tilbtry in any and all Latvian…
  • p. 103 …VALDEMARS related that he (VALDEMARS) haaagreed to cooperate with TILBURY giving TILBURT his word of honor…
  • p. 109 …material and chided Hahn that he was cooperating with the wrong man (meaning KALME). SKOBE further…
  • p. 110 …Since Kalme was unable to give more concrete datatbout cooperation with DYOLAIM, Hahn agreed to SKOBE…
  • p. 112 …with the TIMAAS so that he could begin cooperating with them and then slowly assume -113-
  • p. 113 …Andreason to whom he expressed his desire to cooperate enumerating all his qualifications, as well as…
  • p. 123 …Upon interrogation y H , he admitted cooperation with the Cheke and wrote a long, detailed narrative…
ear. They had arrangements for cOnta raflio sets remaining in Kurseae-
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ws(52) All preperations e.efer4kerticiit to leave on Jl October 1945.
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departure was sucessfULly completed at 8PH and was covered by the remaining
group which consisted of:6 HAKSIS KIERPE, group leader who did not desire to leave
because his wife was working in Riga as a teacher, having. participated iwith her
husband on th e ill-fated attempt to flee to Sweden on the ROTA. She as a woman
was released, while her husband later escaped from confinement.
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t JANIS ( last name unknown) radio operator
EDUARDS ( last nano unknown) former policeman
Li ALHERTS(last name unknown) former policeman
D. Hahn t s Post-war activities
along WithAother Latvians arrived in Sweden
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from &weenie in a fisherboat, having left Latvia from a Anish wharf near the village
of ATRIUM, four kilometers from the village proper. They arrived in Gotland at
the fishing village of Ljugarne (south of Slits) after a 20 .4our trip without any
difficulty. The other, persons in the boat were:
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Hahn and SkObe came out of Huisemewith the assignment Which, was in part
self imposed, to seek contact with a friendly Western nation so as to organ/i!
a return, if possible du'ring that saaftelayoi•. arliiire tiko liter than the following
. (1) On 31 October 1945 Hahn

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