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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…
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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…
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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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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…