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-3 't- SECRETmost rural inhabitants were not favorably inclined toward the FLRKONKRUSTS.
Consequently any new inform/er whom H and Sternbergs recruited were purposely
non-Perkonkrusts members, and consisted mainly of young teachers with whom Sternbergs,
.a teacher himself, was personally acquainted,
Returning to Riga H found that the now famous break between Celini 4s and •
Rikards ad occured. The rea n for this break was that Rikards,..Adolfs childe,
•EValde dersons, and Edmunds ksis disagreed with the eAremeky pro-German line • ,
Thi* break, which occurred on the initiati,e of the above mentione0• . . • 4
person created no changes with in the Structure of Rikard's group or any, of its Vorkings.;.1
the'only'effect it had was that those persons siding with Rikard's views could really..
not be considered any more as members of the Perkonkrusts, but rather as plain
ees in the Rikard's group, and Rikards personal supporters. t.
In the fall of 1942 H got acquainted ilth a Latvian religion:Csect.(Dievtui):.•
which propounded a nationalistic Latvian religion based upon the ancientIatviari'Geds2'.
iTh-ii.-leader of t 't sect was Ernestl/Brastins/87/. Hahn was put-in-contact with thia: .
Sect. byMattins odis arid:;abstsil-degs (both members of Rikarda Organiation);!'.
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Hahn slowly got to know several of the adherents to this religion anewas eventually.
ihtormed that within this religious sect there existed an undergeound“organization,.
to Which many former Latvian army officers belonged, who were serving at the , time in' •
the police force in Riga, (It should be noted that not all of those persons belonging
to the underground organization were necessarily followers of this religious moVement.
One of the leaders of this underground group was a meMber of the Riga criminalpolice;
fnuMesZargi. ,Rahn was informed that this underground Was quite interedted.in pro-: •
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CUripghiti:as*11 as Mitreiics , services; however, talking it over with MiireVics;
he and Hahn decided not to join because they could not determine the entire structure... . . • .,
the organization, or any of its aims In the end of 1942 the German authorilies-
1:6COVered ,this activity and arrested .a-ierge numiwar iOf:pOlicemen, ' )therebyldiatUPAri
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