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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…
Attachment B to EGia.;48814
1 January 1960
Subject: The Death of Stefan RANDERS and Incidents at Radio
Free Europe, TsOPE and Zeppelinstrasse
Source of Information: PermmuULComments
1. The unexpected and unevplained death of the head of Zch/OUN, Stefan—:
Benders, has stirred up much speculation among his friends as well as his enemies.
To date,the exact circumstances of his death are not clear. While my private in-
vestigations and the investigations by the German criminal police seem to point up
the fact that StefanDandera committed suicide because of marital circumstances,
the zch/OUN is trying desperately to prove that Stefan Barulera was mxuSbered by the
Sovieta..
In support of the Zch/OUN version and the recent efforts to poison employees,
of RpE with atropine: This effort to poison RIPE employees with atropine gave the
Zcb/OUN a good arguMent. It supposedly offered proof that Soviet and Satellite
intelligence organilatimms-vere,emplOying,tbAL4e (4 Wis.= in their fight against
their enemies.
7urther activities bolster the Zch/OUN accusations that Benders died at the
hands of his enemies. Bare I have in mind the boabidg of theformer MOPE building
and the bombing. incident of the Zch/OUN building at Zappeliistrasse 67. .All-this7--
supposedly factually proves that the Soviets carried out an act of var , against the
Zch/OUN, the NTS, TWOPR and.RPE.
My personal thought regarding these matters is as follows. All these incidents
are independent of each other and concern completely different matters.

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