Documents / FOIA release
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.
-2- a. Regarding the poisoning of the employees of RFE. This is a typical ex- ample of American careerists in Europe which stems from their mentality of "how to make a :mountain out of a molehill." The Czech intelligence, or perhaps even Yaroslav Nemets personally decided to send a fly into RE. The American administrators of this establishment tried to turn the fly into an elephant. However, their efforts left only a bad taste. What I believe in connection with this and what I do not believe: (1) I believe that the Czech intelligence officer in Salzburg, Yaroslav Nements, could have made contact With an employee of RFE or infiltrate one of his '7v11 agents. (2) I believe that. the employee could have been working for both sides; i.e., play along . with the Czechs for the benefit of the Americans. (3) I believe that this double agent received from Nemets atropine with instructions to put . it in small doses . into the salt shakers in theBFE cafeteria. (4)- 1-beileVe- that=thIi-ettblibie7WaS not supposed to kill anyone of the members but only to produce delerlaWebStumi-vrlso-that-it .--was-designatedfor-L- a large number of the salt shakers and not only for two of them.: (5) I believe that the above-mentioned agent, having received this at repine and appropriate instructions on,how . to;Arroceed, reported this fact to his . chief and turned the matter over to his 'control. Here the patter should have ended. Instead, purely.for political reasons (to' wit from the conviction that one must make a mountain 'out of a' molehill), the Americans realizing what kind . of poison they have to. deal with told the agent to put it into only twn of the shakers and when the poison Was put into the shakers, the salt shakers were confiscated and the propaganda-activities . against Czech intelligence was initiated by the Americans. The Americans stated that they told the truth but they didn't tell the whole truth. They publicized the matter in fantasy form,
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