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This Central Intelligence Agency dispatch from the Chief of Base, Munich, dated 2 May 1960, forwards reports by a source called AEDOGMA-1 on the October 1959 cyanide death of Ukrainian nationalist leader Stefan Bandera. The attachments review five theories: poisoning by German intelligence, by Soviet agents, by Myron Matviyeyko, by Mykola Lebed, or suicide. They also describe interviews with Munich criminal police officer Adrian Fuchs, who said the police were convinced Bandera committed suicide. The document has no UFO content.

  • p. 3 …Stefan Benders committed suicide by taking cyanide. Each of these versions had some plausibility and at…
  • p. 8 …They entered the bilSalding together:and Benders went into his office while Binovsky went to the…
  • p. 9 …Theoretically there are possibilities that Bentsal could have been a party to the murder of Benders…
  • p. 11 …the CoMMUnists more to play along .silth Benders: through Byron Matviyeyko as they have to date?
  • p. 13 - 12 - Benders did in fact cancel the . planned conference and began to make preparations for the…
  • p. 14 …About a meek after Benders died, the informants of this group who are closely connected with…
  • p. 15 …unable to establish definitely whether or 'not Benders died as a result of potasaiUm cyanide by…
  • p. 16 …The daughters favored their mother and the non favored Benders. These violent scenes made a very…
  • p. 17 …There were tines when Benders brought Severe/ friends "his guards" along with him whom Hrs. Bandera…
  • p. 18 …Another group of individuals were also sent to the west in order to penetrate Benders's…
  • p. 19 …He threatened suicide and left home to go to the office before 8 a.m. !-- Benders…
  • p. 20 …7urther activities bolster the Zch/OUN accusations that Benders died at the hands of his enemies…
  • p. 23 …If that is true, then it meane that the 2ch/OUN and Benders were a pester…
What Pandera did during these 40 minutes is hard to Say. l',verything pointr
to the fact that he was deatained someplace for at least 15-20 minutes, because if
be drove directly home he would have been there within 20 minutes. One thing points
to the fact that Bander either returned once again to the market or stopped at some
store. Evhenia tt.tviyeyko-nak states that, in her presence, Bandera did not buy any
dill for 'pickling tomatoes. However, after he died there were five sprigs of dill
found in the baiket. This means that after arriving at Zeppelinstrasse he purchased
the dill someplace. Where? From whom? When?
At my request, the SB drove Bandera's car from Zeppelinstrasse to the market where
dill is sold, lingered there for several minutes and drove on to Bandera's home. The
' entire trip took 20 minutes. This means that if Bandera was at the tarket, then there
. . .
still are 26 minutes missing, or let us say 15 or even 10 minuted..
EN-hen S Matviyeyto-Mak is papable of anything. But I do not believe that she per-
sonally fed cyanide to Tandera. The German police Are of the same Opinioh.
And now let us analyze other aspects.
a. Potassium cyanide is . not a weapon the Soviets use in their fight against their
, political opponents. If it is proven that'Bandera was really poisoned by the Spviets
then this wv1J. be the first time they have used this means.
b. in view of the present political situation; would the Comnuhistitry to do away
With Bandera . '(at this time)?
c. Wouldn't the KGB have considered the fact that the death' of Bandera
gate :the Ukrainian emigres to mobilize their fight against the . dommunists in the 'whole
world?
d. 'Would it not benefit the CoMMUnists more to play along .silth Benders: through
Byron Matviyeyko as they have to date?

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