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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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Sectrify Ginters, though sympathetic, related that donditeons had changed for the better, in that' ' contact had been made with the Tibare who again seemed to be interested in the Latvian area. This seamed to solve the financial support problem and therefore Hahn acquainted Dr. Cinters with Lukins new project (Dr. Ginters knew Lukins well from previous days 411 well as all the details of the latter l s abortive operation). In the interim Lukins had procured sufficient funds to purchase the needed beat and also contacted the Swedish state police (Statspolis) among whom he had many /ii frimnds who premised him technical aid. However, since in the same mobth of that year an agreement between the Tibars and Tilbury was signed stripulating that Tilbury is to be the sole Latvian in charge of Tiharo operations ' in the Latvian field; only on this condition did Tilbury .; consent to work for the Tibars who accepted this condition. This Tiber's/Tilbury agreement was told to Lukins by his contact in the state police who farther told him that he is forced to withdraw all promises because of an order fees the top and that henceforth the Swedish authorities would cooperate only with Tilbtry in any and all Latvian operations. (13) Although Dr. Ginter° had originally stated that he could procure supportH for Lukins planned operation, it later developed that Tilbury did not agree.tolhie, forcing Dr. Gintere, who Hahn later found was subordinate to him, to accept Tilbury cisian, which caused Lakin° to believe that Dr. Ginters had evil intentions and there- fore Lukins (who is very temperamental) broke with Dr. Ginter.-- therfore also with Tilbury because he not only felt deceived by Dr. Ginters but also did not agree with Tilbury political views as these were the views of the LCP. having• WILLOWARNPATAL decided to await farther results of.thisnew Tilbarenbara arr -angement.. In July 1948 Dr. Ginters contacted Hahn in the hopes that he (Dr. Ginter.) could persuade them to work with the Tilbuullailmmt, lytApetelelpinion , 111 the maim' reason for Dr. Ginters desire to have Hahn arirbiiifiiera4ejoi in tilbsu7 group Was . ;.;
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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.