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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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Secz.2 engaged in illegal activities which‘he, as a member of the government had no right to do. SVANTESSON was and convicted on a charge of misappropriation of funds, as he never admitted his complicity in penetration operations. He was DOM then discharged fromehisposition and "banned" to an insignificant post as pastor in same little village in the north of Sweden. With this the hope of any support from the Swedish church disappeared as SVANTESSON had been the heart and soul, of this activity. The majority •f Bruno Ealnins opponents blame him for this entire affair. In December of 1945 H. Gintern informed Hahn that he had been able to contact a representative of American intelligence at the Elbassy in Stockholm. According to Ginters(H) the Americans were very interested and promised their final answer within a month; however month after month passed with no work, which led Hahn to beleive that H. Gintere may have possibly related an imaginary tale just so he could keep Hahn's contact possibilities from other groups. Hahn supposes H. Ginters tale to be untrue because H. Ginter, had told him that the Americans would use the EMbessy t e radio for transmissions! to Latvia, which seems quite pecnier to him. H. Ginters gave H no further info regard- ing his contacts with the US Embassy except that he had been in touch with one American ftni working ther Hahn, however, b eves that H. Ginters contact was with one of two Latvians •PALMS and ARTURS , BREDIANIS who both were employed by the Embassy!, information section. Driimanis had known Skobe from their high school days in , Latvia and hence, upon Skobes arrival in Sweden, he often visited him. As far as Hahn knows, Skobe never asked Dreimanis about H. Ginters because at that time Skobe and H had no reason to doubt H. Gintere elate that he was in direct contact with the Americans. In the beginning Of December 1945 a documented Swedish intelligence officer, p Johanson, contacted Mrs. Lejins asking if she knew anyone of her group of refUgges who would be interested in undertaking a mission to Latvia (checking with Hugo Ginter@ Security ilicrtnn!".on Hahn found that according to him suckle Err .5 Ouron does exist). Mrs Lejins , . . replied that such perions were aTailalChD,h1,111nson stated that he would return • •
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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.