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Death of Bandera
Over the course of the late 40’s and 50’s the MGB (Ministry of State Security) and later the KGB would attempt multiple assassinations and kidnappings of Stephan Bandera, while he was living out the later part of his life in Germany. It wouldn’t be until October 15, 1959, when they got lucky. Outside of his…
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Burma & Myanmar
In 1948 the country of Burma was formed in southeast Asia. Early on in diplomatic relations, Burma’s first task was to recognize Israel as an ally and set up domestic ties. In 1955 Burma and Israel reached an agreement on trading weapons and training from Israel, in exchange for Rice from Burma. These weapons would…
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Coup in Argentina
After World War Two Hitler lived in peace in Argentina, with support from the President, Juan Domingo Perón. He was helpful to Hitler in keeping in hidden. However President Juan Perón had anti-United States policies as a leader, which made him a target for a regime change. However, luck was going to run out. Juan…
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Unit 8200
As Israel was taking shape, and the IDF was forming, a new unit know as Unit 8200 was emerging. The 8200 was something known as a Signal intelligence unit, or sigint for short. As a sigint unit their main job was to collect intelligence on the enemy by use of electronic means, this includes activities…
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Operation Cast Thy Bread
During the early days of the Israeli Arabs conflict, Israel was quick to violate the 1925 with Operation Cast Thy Bread, where the IDF poisoned Arabs wells. Packets were put together by Haganah, of Typhoid bacteria. This was in an effort to make it difficult for the Arabs to retake their land, while also scaring…
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Aradi’s Aiding
Aradia is given a secret task by the Americans, it is to inform all of his colleagues in the intelligence game that they were to go into hiding by January 15, 1947. The Americans were already requested by the Soviets to help them hunt for prisoners they wanted back, and while American never agreed or…
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Requesting Bandera Back
On October 15, 1946, Colonel-General P.A. Kurochkin, the deputy commander of the Soviet Military Administration, wrote to the Americans that they should arrest and return Stefan Bandera, to the Soviet Union to face punishment for his war crimes. Colonel-General Kurochkin was quoted in saying For these crimes committed against the Russian people, he should be…
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Almost Giving Up
American was learning that working with partisan groups in Ukraine were more difficult than they originally realize. They learned that to pull off such an operation would require a great deal of counterintelligence work, which would require a lot of resources which America wasn’t willing to use. They also did not understand how much the…
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More Problem with Bandera
After World War Two Stephan Bandera moved to West Germany, where he lived under protection from the Soviets, even though the Soviet Union asked for all of their known citizen, who were known for committing war crimes, to be sent back to the Soviet Union, so they could be tried and punished. The allies refused…
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Politics for Protection
After World War Two the Soviets requested that all former Soviet citizens be sent back. However, there were many Ukrainian nationalist livings in Western Germany. Many of them claimed to be Polish citizen. This protected them from being sent back to the Soviet Union. The Baltic States were another thing to deal with. There were…