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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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T. c.r r aid in the preparation work by Skobe tad v articipated to the extent that he located a editable boat, prepared the necessary maps, found one of the crew members, the machinist) and firniehed all of his support points, contacts, addresses and irtuaUy all that he /new about the partisans in Latvia. Hahn claims that two( names,_. a .Olins anaiMri). 'Haumanis, furnished to the Lukins operation, were also given to our operation 't As fa;._ _- as Hahn knows Lukink had received for this operation 35,000 Swedish crowns, 17,000 . crowns being spent for the purchase of the boat. ..y. tl Carel1.e.(A4 The operation took place on Christmas 1946, but because of the severe storm and the diechord of the crew the boat did not reach the Latvian coast and returned to - Sweden. Having created some alarm when leaving Sweden, as well as when refueling in Gotland, the boat was picked up by the Swedish authorities when it returned. The ' Swedish customs officials found the weapons and other supplies in the boat of which then the Swedish' communist press became knowledgeable, creating a tremendeous upsoar . and excitment. Most al- fault in this fiasco was ilkobe who acted the somewha incorrectly ilo'ndand u0diplomatically when e boat returned, by failing to talk to fon, e /166/ as previously arranged. Bonds could easihy have taken' the entire situation in hand and covered the presence of weapons andcther supplies to the satisfaction of the Swedish ' officials. However, Skobes , chose to deal with the Swedes directly, disregarding.Bondels presence. If he had acted properly, another possibility existed as well, in that the Swedes could have been delayed from boarding the boat and all damaging evidence could vcbsen thrown overboard. As a result all 7ticipants in tie operation, 1st Lb.) tSkebe ist Ii4obesgruntnieks, i:.air force Sgt.";Thmpsons,(or Tomsons) , Fricis Knorade, -% Foamy,. and the actually infiltree, Alberts (?) Jureviis), were incarcerated for I) months and as a result throe of them, Skobe, Robesgrmmtnieks, and Thompsons were de- persona neti4eit4 in 'Sweden. The first two individulle went,to..lb9and,,the - last one remaining in Sweden since he had no place to go andcould nOt4erely be sent away by the Swedes. Just prior to cl 3ea eparting from Sweden Skobe informed Hahn that - during the interrogations nothing re rrifY. $ kmanni . articipition had been.revealed.' •
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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.