Alfred Riekstiņš with the nickname "Imants" dies as a result of the betrayal of a double agent of the USSR
Alfrēds Riekstiņš, a Latvian legionnaire, was recruited for cooperation with the US intelligence service CIA after World War II.
Alfrēds Riekstiņš (pseudonym "Imants", "Ogor A. Feldman" for communication with US government institutions, cryptonym CAMUSO/1). Riekstiņš was born in 1913 in Sabile. Agricultural worker. While fighting in the Latvian Legion, he served up to the rank of lieutenant. Awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, II and I Class Iron Crosses, Infantry Strike Merit, Melee Merit and Wound Merit for valor in combat. In May 1945, at the time of Germany's capitulation, he managed to get to Sweden on the last boat from Kurzeme. In 1951, he agreed to cooperate with the US intelligence service.
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Memorial stone of Alfred Riekstiņš
Memorial stone to Latvian Legion lieutenant and national partisan Alfred Riekstiņš, who died near the "Dreimaņi" house on September 11, 1952
On September 11, 1952, Alfred Riekstiņš, a lieutenant of the 19th SS Grenadier Division (Latvian No. 2) of the Latvian Legion and a Knight of the Iron Cross, died in the yard of the "Dreimaņi" house. On May 9, 1945, Alfred Riekstiņš from Pāvilosta arrived in Sweden with one of the last boats. On August 30, 1952, Alfrēds Riekstiņš, together with two former Latvian soldiers, landed in Kurzeme on behalf of the US intelligence services. The security services of the USSR knew about the operation and surrounded the intelligence officers in the shed of the "Dreimaņi" house, where Alfred Riekstiņš committed suicide by biting a poison ampoule.
