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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.

  • p. 61 …this convoy of boats, carrying among others Mitrevics and.Andersons, left , the :Ventspils harbor. rrior t…
  • p. 62 …The first boat in Which Anderson and Dr. Ginters were traveling managed to escape and reached…
  • p. 69 …It is also Hahn's belief that Andersons (an Anflltree from Sweden who arrived in Latvia…
  • p. 78 …by s reporters in Plant (Najas) that Andersons Auld like to meet him. Unable to do…
  • p. 80 …Arnitis, engineer, Anderson, sailor, and Petersons and,Smits, and was:finaaced by SwediSh Church fends, the…
  • p. 135 …Janis/Andersons Was an agriculturalist. He was one of the directors of the "Mezpuiku" organization in…
H. Gintere informed them that he would have to disist from active participation in op-
erational work because the last operation bad brought him into serious financial
difficulties. It was therefore decided that in order to resew this operation, Hahn
would seek financial support from Swedish nationabin the Goteborg area while Lukins
would do the same in Stockholm. They did not succeed in this attempt. Lukins, finding
himself in a precarious financial situation because he too had gobten into debt as a
result of is abortive operation, became quite desperate and among many other poss-
ibilities mentioned the fact that possibly assistance would be procured from the
Spanish Consulate in Stockholm with which he had no contact. Hahn thought that the
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acquaintance of his,i Baroness `yene voncontact could be procured through a caiu
AMPENHAUSEN, whose previous husband fnu .".. _ was a Mexican diplomat in Germany___..... .
before the war. Erroneously believing that having been the wife of a Mexican diplomat
she could hav Spanish contacts, Hahn by mail contacted her non-in-law, his former
friend GeorgPUNNEJOVS whom he merely asked if his mother-in-law had Spanish contacts.
His reply was in the negative and Hahn having informed him of nothing regarding the
" •operation, discontinued the correspondence.
It is noteworthy that during this time, when Lukins and Hahn were decoking
financial aid, the former told Hahn that if this planned operation were to succeed
and he (Lukins) could prove that radio contact was established with Latvia, there
would become available unlimited resources for futheri/ activities from the backers
of his previous, abortive operation.
WILLOW BNPORTAL
In October 1947 Hahn, MOOR 141000, and Lukins discussed the possibility
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of creating -a-now, clean operations organisation. This was agreed upon with no definite
arrangements and concrete plans as no Arnie were available, During the discussions
RN PILLOW Brought out the fact that the Lukins-purchased boat was unusable for ihrther
operations because pictures of it had appeared in . thm Swedish press, and suggested that
Some fishing boats belonging to Latvians in Swetl fiUtitlItlaeilyNe procured with the
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entire crew. At this time Hahn also met Lame (SEEltaltitWand gave him all

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