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The First Set of Projects
America originally tried doing something similar to an Azov movement, back in the late 1940’s but failed. It was code named Operation Belladonna and Operation Trident. CIA Documents: Belladona The first project was known as Operation Belladona. This operation was set to send Ukrainian refugees back into Soviet occupied Ukraine, in an effort to reestablish…
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The Deal with Ukrainians
By 1946, only a year after the end of World War Two, the American’s opinions on the Ukrainian partisan networks have change dramatically. They went from being viewed as unreliable and untrustworthy, to people they could be counted on to run spy operations. The Ukrainians were viewed as having a weird psychology, almost to that…
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Mykola Lebed
One of the contacts being made by the Americans for their early operation, was a man by the name of Lebed, who in 1934 Polish minister of interior. This made him a key figure in the Ukrainian liberation movement and OUN. Lebed was sentence to death, but later had his sentence commuted to life in…
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Involving the Church
In October of 1946, a year before the CIA was founded, America was already planning their next foreign adventure. They wanted to contact Ukrainian partisan groups, but they knew it would be difficult. Ukraine wasn’t a country at the time, and the Ukraine hated both Poles and Russians. The only other country at the time…
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America’s First Steps to War in Ukraine
It would be April 1946 when America launched their first intelligence operation to gather intelligence on whether Ukrainian Nationalist groups could be a viable source of manpower again Russia. They already had some information on where to look for support, thanks to Operation Belladona. It was just a matter of getting support. America was able…
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Escaping the Soviets
As World War Two drug on, the red army advanced closer and closer to Berlin. Many people who help the Germans tried escaping to the west, and into the hands of the allies, where they though that they would be treated more fairly. Millions of refugees from Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Romania, and the Baltic…
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Stephan Bandera and OUN
OUN or Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, was a paramilitary which was first organized in 1920 to help fight for Ukrainian independence. They originally formed in Prague, after the Soviets took over Ukraine after World War 1. Before World War Two OUN was a terrorist organization which mainly focused on attacking Polish Officials, who were deemed…