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Nakba: Israel is Founded
After World War Two a new nation would be born, in Palestine, known as Israel. However, how the state of Israel. Many people attribute Israel to being needed because of the Holocaust or because of some religious text, but none of these make sense. Many groups had different size territories over history, and the Jews…
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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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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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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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Reactivating the Lithuanian Activist Front
Most people realize that the Office of Strategic Services was dissolved in 1945, and that the CIA started two years later in 1947. However, undenounced to the public, America did keep their espionage branch alive, with a group of people known as Strategic Services Unit. This was post-war predecessor of the CIA, which was formed…
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Discovering a Network
While Operation Ruppert had to be done to such secrecy, the OSS rarely received any information about Vinogradov, if ever. It wouldn’t be until April of 1945, when Vinogradov made contact again with the Allies, who have helped in this spy mission. However, upon his return he would bring back very important information. During his…