EDGARS LAIPENIEKS, A FORMER OLYMPIC COACH AND CIA INFORMANT, HAS FILED NOTICE OF APPEAL OF AN ORDER THAT HE BE DEPORTED FOR ALLEGED WAR CRIMES IN HIS NATIVE LATVIA DURING WORLD WAR II.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100140006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 18, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
18 November 1983
SAN DIEGO
NATIONAL BRIEFS
Edgars Laipenieks, a former Olympic coach and CIA informant, has filed
notice of appeal of an order that he be deported for alleged war crimes in his
native Latvia during World War II.
He was ordered deported to Chile last September-by the Board of Immigration
Appeal*5.
?Laipenieks, who coached Chile's Olympic track teams in 1952 and 1956 and the
1964:Mexican track team, has denied he was involved in war crimes while serving
with the Latvian Political Police during the Nazi occupation ofihis homeland.
He said his responsibility was to track down Communists and terrorists sent
into Latvia by the Soviet Union.
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