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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.
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6,-,91&7:1 A ..4 r -vex 14 JUly 1960 Tra.nalatico DELVIAU BEHLND SCMTES OF TnE DEATH OF =IAN RAM=A "Stefan Bandera, who participated in the Lvov crimes, was poisoned 15 October by potassium cyanide. This fact was established after an autopsy by the Munich in- stitute of forensic medicine." MiLDIER ZEITUNG 20 October 1959 The foregoing is how Soviet journalist Walter Belayev begins his article under the title of The Concealed Always Becomes Evident" which was pUb1ished in the news.- paper; FOR RESURN TO THE SMELAHD (Ukrainian-langaage edition) issue 116. 82/371, October 1959; page 4. The Sadden death of the leader. of the Zch/OUN/B, on 15 October .1959, as- a result of potassium cyanide poisoning, as might be expected, .started a lot of speculation regarding the causes oethis incident. The various versions, which in the beginning were very obscure, later became somewhat more conci .ete and even plau- bible. ,Raving arrived ia bbnich almost a.thOnth after the death or S. Bandera, at the in- vitation Of the 58 chief, Ivan Eashuba; for the purpose of "privately 'investigating thiS affair," •I heard the following More or less logical versions. 1 . Stefan Dandera WaS poisoned,by Gehlon's German security organization at the reqUest of the 3:inister for Refugee Affairs, Prof. Dr. TheodoreOberlaender, former participant in the Lvov murders.
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