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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.
“Cooper”15 pages
baldly L.r r1:7):1t q7 Hahn is not certain whether there%ppre one er . :40,agents landed at thst time, though he albs questioned CAHUSO 2 who knows Arina well, and whose opinion there were actually two involved in this operation. Hahn believes it quite possible that two cover names could have been used by Zande so as to confuse the Soviets. (12) The following two indications lead Hahn to believe that the abortive Lukins operation of Christmas 1946 would possibly have been supported by French intell- igence; Hahn has no further substantiating evidence. a. In 1948 in a conversation the general trend of which Hahn does not recall, Laing informed him that he is knowledgeable of a French penetration operation. Though Hahn could not recall the date of thin operation, he believes it to have been said to have occurred in 1946. The operation was a submarine infiltration which intedded to land one er more Latvian agents on the Lithuanian coast from whence they were to proceed to Latvia. The Latvian agents were recruited in Sweden, their rem:miter or their training area not being known to Hahn. The operation was unsuccessfUl because the submarine was forced to return since it was believed that the Soviet ceastal defense guards had noticed it. . .b. Fetr;)ilberinge, daughter of former Latvian Minister of Agriculture, . . was and is still today very interested and very active in partisan support and assistnace'. work in Germany, she recently visited Silde a former underground member in Latvia. In general she is known to travel a . great deal). Her previous back-ground consisted of attending the French Lyceum in Riga which was An institution of grammar and high school. levels in which the French language was used exclusively and in which the French in- fluence wie..great. Estra Alberings was the Mistress of_Erikeyebesgrundnieks, Skobes — operational assistant. It may be of some significance that in the summer of 1947 Lukins participated in a boy's:pout jamboree in Franco, as his had been the Latvian boy scout leader in Sweden. Aecurify :On (13) During the aferemsritiinedSticb ...Hahn, H. Gliders, and Lukinl,.
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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.