Documents / FOIA release
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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two of the following giving this as the reason for abandoning all hope for Swedish
church support:
In its attempt to remove as mamy clergyman as possible from the Soviet occupied
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Baltic States, the Swedish church appointed pastor Harald Biezais as the head of
this removal operation, covering the Latvian sector. BIEZAIS then procured SVIKIS
aid in this undertaking. Upon contacting Hahn and Skobe, Svikis gave them his word,
' under math, that he would reveal notilng they told his to anyone, even his closest
friends. Svikis, (whoa H terms very ambitious), for this as well as personal reasons,
never revealed any intonation regarding Hahn and Robe to BIEZAIS, as he (Svikis)
felt certain that he could procure all the needed support from the Swedish church with -
out .the help of BIEZAIS, thereby circumventing the latter completely. .
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However thoough Janis Krums, who Biezaiieas pastor in RUCAVA!) contirmed, Biezais
found that Hahn had a signal plan, was planning a return trip to Latvia, and was collab-
orating with Svikie;behind Biazars back. Biegais then attempted to procure the signal
plan from Svikis by any and all means. Failing to do so because Svikis had given his
word to Hahn, Missals then began a smear campaign, calling INEKI Svikis a communist and
making statements that there were communist agents among the 17 refugees.. Hahn and
Mrs. Lejins therefore viaited Biezais and demanded proof of his etatements which he
failed to produce. However, he stated tthat although he does not believe Hahn and Mrs.
Lejins to be communist, but that there surely must be same among their group. They'
parted in a very unfriendly manner, Hahn and Mrs. Lejins insisting that had there
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communists among than, they would never have reached Sweded.
Shortly thereafter the Swedish Socialist press began a campaign againstpastin..)
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-. ALAN-SVAnES.??Cwho was_the..actual supporter of the program to exfiltrate clergymen
from the Baltic States. According to Hahn SVANTESSON was a great idealist and friend
. of the Baltic states, aiding XXIII their people as much as possible. The socialist
press, at that time, accused SVANTESSON hieggisa0OroOriitea' .60iiiish Gov't funds (' the
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SVENSKA : DIAKONISSTYBELSEN, the Swedish churcili::(govIerniiihtisupported.) and was
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 146 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.