Vilis HāznersJudicial review and denial of motion to appeal

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The witness also stated that the respondent attracted the attention of the Central Intelligence Agency as a leader of the anti-Soviet faction among Latvians (Tr. p. 1299, 13301). He stated that at that time the Soviets were very aggressively propagandizing against the Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians, especially those who had served in one of the legions. The Soviets regarded them as war criminals (Tr. p. 13002). The respondent's name has appeared in many heavy handed Soviet propaganda regarding war crimes (Tr. p. 13013). The activities of the respondent were to counter those accusations against the Latvian Legion (Tr. p. 1300, 13024). The Service stipulated that the respondent's name appealed often In Soviet Latvian publications (Tr. p. 1303-13075).

The respondent presented other witnesses that knew him during the German occupation in Latvia. Arturs Ludriksons is an electronics engineer who presently resides in West Germany. He testified that he attended a different military school in Riga In 1938, the communications school, whereas the respondent was attending the war academy (Tr. p. 1343-13446). He got to know the respondent while both schools shared the same building for two or three months and he also lived close to the respondent in Riga during the Soviet occupation (Tr. p. 13457). He heard of the respondent's arrest at the end of June 1941. After the Germans arrived he saw the respondent approximately the seventh or eighth of July at the Latvian Society, where all the other Latvian army officers were gathered (Tr. p. 13478). He said that the respondent had then a prison haircut and was wearing the Latvian army uniform which had light gray insignia, which was different from the uniform he himself wore, the infantry uniform, which had red insignia (Tr. p. 13479). He saw the respondent often while he was working at the Latvian Self Defense Unit Staff. He testified that the respondent's job in Riga had nothing to do with the Riga ghetto or with the extermination of Jews (Tr. p. 135110).

Another witness was Karlis Lobe who presently resides in Sweden and testified by way of deposition at the United States Consulate in Stockholm. He testified that he met the respondent when he joined the war college and thinks that the respondent graduated in 1938 (d. p. 711). After the war started he met the respondent in January of 1942 when he became the chief of the Annas Street headquarters In Riga (d.p. 512). The respondent was his subordinate as Chief of the Administrative Section (d. p. 5-613). The witness testified that he continued as chief until August or September of 1942 and that again in 1944 the respondent became his subordinate when he commanded a battalion alongside his regiment on the front near the Veliki River in Russia (d. p. 7-914).

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