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I. SWEDEN. A. SIB Almost all successful or unsuccessful Latvian operations based on Spdden appear to have been under SIS,TEPFERS control. Section A on the SIS . in Sweden has been subdivided as follows 1) TEPFERS and his coworkers in operational planning, 2) TEETERS operational con- tacts, and 3) miscellaneous Latvian BIS contacta not directly con- nected with TEPFERSeo far as we know. 1). General Verners TEPFERS . _ . In contact with SIB since 1943 according to his own statement. In summer 1948 signed agreement with SIS plan him Oontrol.over all operations using Latvians from Sweden. His main associates In operational planning have been the following:
Aldom TEPFERS, nee CAESTE, TEPFERS 1 wife and sister of LCP politician Mintauts CAXSTE, daughter of former president of Latvia. . • lp ; /Tarns ZIVERTS, Latvian P astor, member of TEPFERS LatV ian Assistance Committee in 1945, has since then remained in contact with TEPFERS onAltelligence matters according to TEPFERS t .own state- ment. • • . c. Valdemars DINTERS. Worked With TEPFERS during World War . II on evacuation of Latvians from Latvia, broke with TEPFERS and LCP on arrival .in Sweden at end of war, again became adsodiated. with him in operations in summer of 1948. According tb TEPFERS.. °INTERS lost interest in 1951 and has Since then had no operatiOnal. contact with him or with the SIS.
d. Voldemars SALNAJS, former Latvian ambassador to Sweden, • associated with TEPFERS-in intelligence since 1945 or before _•until his death in 1948. • .2) Operational Contacts of ITTFERS