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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locate his wife and child in Ge rliklbem to Sweden). When Hahn requested that
Celisainis xstm reveal his friends identity so that Hahn talk to him personally,
Celmainis refused, say that he had sworn to keep that a secret and had already revealed
too much to Hahn. Later when Celmainis was in Canada,. in 1950, Hahn, in a letter asked
him whether he could not reveal his friends identity, particularly since CILDEMMANIS
too had emigrated to Canada. Celmainis replied that:Iihe could not reveal this friends
identity, and said that "there are things that you cannot reveal, And there are thing,
that I cannot reveal".
. (9) In the begining of May 1946 Dr. Ginters wrote Hahn the he (Dr. Ginters)
had found a possibility for a return trip to Latvia and Hahn immediately should moue
to Stockholm. Informing Hahn that on arrival in Stockholm that he has received -
sufficient !Undo for an expedition, and that he through radio operator Jekahaalkins.....
is now in contact with-the homeland, Dr. Ointers.requested that Hahn procure one man
i • fraa the 17 refugees who would undertake this mission; (Hahn himself did not care to go
.., on a mission since he had just located his wife in Germany.) Dr. Ginters further stated
that it1:planned to execute this operation by airdropi the pilot for Buell 1.peration
being funHk MONS (iir4BITSONB)
WOE Later Hahn found that the truth of this matter was that it was actuaily4124!!_
. Lukins . who received financial support from an unidentified source and who had contacted
Ginters with the request that he procure the necessary personnel for a penetration oper.
ation. Lukina requested of Ginters that he not inform the LCP of this operation and as
a test and cover Measure toll Dr. Ginter. that this operation would be an airdrop. It
later developed that Dr. Gintere did, nevertheless, inform the LCP of this, through
lerlis Ziverts. Because Dr. Ginters had not kept his word to Lukins and revealed this
i ,plans of an operation to Hahn anetiverts, Lukins discontinued .all-iontacts With Dr:., .
GintersAnd contacted Hugo Ginters for aupport . purposes. • 4
In May or June 1946 Hugo Ginters put LukinAin contact with Skohmg who then
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became the operations chief Ar Latins in 4a.planned sea,dispateh. Out Of:neeessity
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4.1cine himself later also participated in s .Peragilei Preparations. Hahn asked.'7.p-
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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.