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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.
“Bender”13 pages
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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