Volume 1 coincides with the period through the twentieth anniversary of the Soviet occupation of Latvia (June, 1960).

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  1. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0001Brief security background
  2. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0002Brief security background, personal references, organizational memberships
  3. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0003Assignment of Hāzners's field agent alias and cryptonym
  4. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0004Translation of an encyclopedia article "in Latvju Enciklopedija (The Latvian Encyclopedia), Vol 34, Stockholm, 1952, pages 1288-1322."
  5. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0005 (19 July 1952)Request for name check on Hāzners for project TFTORIG
  6. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0006 (31 July 1952)Background check request on Hāzners to fill a vacancy on the Latvian Consultative Panel
  7. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0007 (31 July 1952)Request for opinion on Hāzners filling Latvian Consultative Panel vacancy
  8. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0008 (15 October 1952)Recommend Valdemārs Bostjānis over Hāzners for Latvian Consultative Panel position because, having served in the Waffen-SS and attained a rank of major, Hāzners could not be admitted to the U.S. under current law. Hāzners's membership might also interfere with the CIA's Soviet Russia (SR) Division's own plans for "Latvian Unification"—possibly referring to creating a united front among the various post-war exile Latvian organizations in the face of attempted Soviet infiltrations. (Another document refers to a new "Valdmanis organization created in December 1952" anticipated to be a definite hindrance turning out to be ineffective and not gaining support among the Latvians.)
  9. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0009 (29 October 1952)CIA review of Hāzners regarding Latvian Consultative Panel did not turn up anything new, no opinion to offer.
  10. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0010 (December 1953)Latvian Central Organizations in Exile, head organization being Latvian Free World Federation (BPLA) and subordinate organizations in the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Australia
  11. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0011 (December 1953)Latvian Central Organizations in Exile, head organization being Latvian Free World Federation (BPLA) and subordinate organizations in the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Australia
  12. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0012 (20 December 1953 interrogation)Juris Aleksejevs interviewed, "Interrogation Regarding Conditions in Soviet Prison and Slave Labor Camps" (30 pages)
  13. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0013 (1 March 1954)Paul Rozenbergs interview, Hāzners also in attendence as former pupil at officers' school.
  14. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0014 (9 December 1954)Documentation checks for Operation/REDSKIN
  15. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0015 (29 March 1955)Status report on various goings on by Hāzners from his letter dated March 13, 1955
  16. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0016 (16 May 1955)Request for suitable security clearance for Hāzners
  17. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0017 (10 June 1955)Berlin Document Center checks for Hāzners: overview of positions, ranks, dates.
  18. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0018 (15 June 1955)Biographical background recheck on Hāzners
  19. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0019 (July 1955)Information provided by Hāzners on Stamers, suspected of involved in attempts to split the Latvian community—note that the new/alternate Latvian veterans association, "Latvijas Kaŗa Invalīdu Apvienība" (Association of Latvian War Invalids) was subsequently confirmed to be a Soviet agitation.
  20. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0020 (12 August 1955)No decision on Hāzners clearance until reviewing open Dossier IE 243515 is reviewed (U.S. Army Europe, Heidelberg)
  21. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0021 (23 August 1955)Same information regarding Hāzners's Waffen-SS service as has already been seen before.
  22. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0022 (8 November 1955)Brief report on "LATVIAN UNION IN FRANCE — REPORT ON THE CONGRESS OF LATVIAN YOUTH, LATVIAN STUDENTS and BALTIC STUDENTS, JULY 31st to AUGUST 7th, 1955, Germany"
  23. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0023 (19 March 1956)Hāzners files trace request.
  24. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0024 (3 April 1956)Result of Hāzners files trace request.
  25. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0025 (19 April 1956)A quarterly list of names, Communications Watch List, CSI No. 10-9, includes Hāzners
  26. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0026 (21 February 1957)Dispatch, "Alleged Communications Channel into the Latvian SSR," includes correspondence attachments which have been translated into English
  27. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0027 (14 February 1957)Name check on Hāzners come back clean.
  28. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0028 (6 September 1957 et al.)Multiple nearly all handwritten correspondences, unfortunately the scan quality is too poor to make out most of it. Page 17 (printed) reads: "I can show up 6 June, 18:10 o'clock, request confirmation. Peters." Page 23, briefly, asks if there's an update on the "S. matter" and that one can't wait forever. Later, page 24, "S." is accepted to a new job, likely the same "S.".
  29. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0029 (11? September 1957)Handwritten letter, a bit more intelligible, writing about a particular book, apparently.
  30. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0030 (23 September 1957)"Request for Investigation and Approval", essentially an employment request. "Subject is to be employed in the US to spot, assess and recruit REDSKIN agents." Includes a significant amount of personal information, unredacted. Current job is "Member of the Committee for a Free Latvia (Salary aprox.[sic.] $360 a month)".
  31. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0031 (23 September 1957)"Biographic Data," note the form notes that its contents are "SECRET [but only when] (When Filled In)". Blank form? Not secret. It's all in the details.
  32. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0032 (4 October 1957)Another name trace request on Hāzners from the Chief of the Soviet Russia division, focus on anything recent from 1956 on.
  33. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0033 (11 October 1957)Name trace response on Hāzners, nothing new.
  34. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0034 (17 October 1957)Approval request for Hāzners, includes brief list of expected duties.
  35. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0035 (31 October 1957)No additional information on Hāžners beyond that already provided.
  36. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0036 (29 July 1958)Since name traces did not come back—not very organized since the results are on file—assume no interest in Hāzners "use as a member of the Committee for a Free Latvia, a TPTONIC-sponsored1 exile organization..."
  37. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0037 (10 September 1958)Reinstate lapsed request for Hāzners's services in the USA for REDSKIN.
  38. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0038 (27 November 1959)Delay owing to translation difficulties. "No traces [of] Jānis Pemperis or Kārlsons."
  39. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0039 (6 December 1959)Correspondences, don't want to be too obvious in recruitment attempts.
  40. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0040 (14 December 1959)Covert Security Approval for Hāzners's use under project AEMARSH.2
  41. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0041 (11 March 1960)Hāzners to be contacted regarding participating and consulting on REDSKIN.
  42. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0042 (16 March 1960)Hāzners's secrecy agreement. When the CIA says "secret," it means SECRET, not even your spouse can know what you've been up to.
  43. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0043 (16 March 1960)Hāzners's personal record questionnaire, mostly illegible.
  44. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0044 (17 March 1960)Hāzners's personal record questionnaire, PART II, filled out by agency.
  45. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0045 (28 March 1960)Report on initial meetings for assessment of Hāzners and one other individual. Secrecy agreement signed, et al.
  46. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0046 (25 April 1960)Report on Hāzners initial trial mission, information provided includes Latvian SSR government members, prominent Latvian Communist party members, possible contacts. Interviewing agent expresses intelligence lust for Hāzners's address book.
        11.  Subject's correspondence is extensive as evidenced by the names he has in an address book which he carries. (Would that we had that book!)...3
  47. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0047 (2 May 1960)Asset summary of Hāzners. For the conspiratorially inclined, "No operational use of this individual foreseen at this time other than his spotting role."
  48. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0048 (9 May 1960)Report on operational meeting with Hāzners. Good reading for its ATTACHMENT B, members of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Latvian SSR, and ATTACHMENT C, List of Deputies to Supreme Soviet Latvian SSR.
  49. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0049 (15 June 1960)"The Twentieth Anniversary of Soviet Aggression Against the Baltic States, MANIFESTO of Free Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians" signed by representatives of all three Baltic States. Transcribed here.
  50. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0050 (ca. June 1960)"WHO IS IN POWER IN LATVIA?"—unattributed but definitely written by a Latvian
  51. HAZNERS, VILIS VOL. 1_0051 (original, 2 June 1960)"LATVIAN KGB CHIEF WARNS OF NEED FOR POLITICAL VIGILANCE AND USE OF EMIGRES AS SPIES", Sovetskaya Latvia, 2 June 1960
Updated: September, 2023

1TPTONIC (formerly QKIVORY) refers to National Committee for a Free Europe (NCFE) and its subcommittees. Vilis Janums associated with TPTONIC.
2AEMARSH (1953-59) involved collecting foreign intelligence on the Soviet regime in Latvia through sources residing in the Latvian SSR, legal travelers, and all possible legal means. The Institute for Latvian Culture (AEMINX) was established as a cover facility engaged in the preservation and development of Latvian national culture, collection of information on Latvian national life, and the safeguarding and preserving of physical, spiritual, and moral conditions of Latvians who were separated from their homeland.—at globalsecurity.org, retrieved 22-January-2015
3 Period changed into an exclamation mark, document includes a good deal of scrawling in addition to the usual declassification redaction.
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