Myron Matvieyko

Myron Matvieyko had experience working in the German Abwehr as an intelligence agent during World War Two. During the war, when things started to turn against the Germans started working as a spy for the American, obtaining information and passing it on to the American. This led to Myron Matvieyko to develop a relationship with the American long before their operations against the Soviets began.

Matvieyko would later become the chief leader of OUNs security branch, known as Sluzba Bezpeka. When it was time to start Operation Belladona, Matvieyko became America’s main point of contact. For some reason, slowly over the next few years Matvieyko became heavily unreliable. He was also involved with other illegal activities in Ukraine such as murder and producing counterfeit money.

In 1950 the American CIA dropped him as their main point of contact for another agent, code named “Ineptitude.” The following year, he was sent on a secret mission involving, which he quickly defected to the Soviet side shortly after.

As soon as he became a Soviet spy, his reliability quickly was replenished. America saw this and knew that they had been working with a double agent for the past following years. This made America grow weary of working with Ukrainian partisans, after the deceitful move.

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