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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…
The benefits could be such: Take adiantage of the opportunity to get PP play
against the Commist Czechs, and prove to EE financiers that RRE broadcasts Most
harmful to the Satellites since the Czechs tried to poison employees of the institu-
tion.
The harmful aspects: American intelligence opened itself to criticism that it
was seeking sensations. I do not intend to state what steps I would have taken in
this situation but I would not have stopped this game so readily and in such fashion.
1 b. Regarding the TOOPBUIP0hin4,Tiret, a few comments about MOPE: TOOPE,
created by the NB, is financed by the Americana. It is guided by the
more specifica lly, by the K. If anyone thinks differently, then they will sooner
or later become convinced that they were wrong. The TOOPE bombing incident is in no
way, except merely coincidentally; connected. with the death of Stefan Bandera and
with the poisoning incident at RAE.
The two largest rival organizations in the Mast are Bch/OUN and NTS. The dif4
ference is that the ZehlOUN for some time now if:line:wing its own activities, while
the NTS'takes its money from anyone it can, Chiefly from the Americans, then from
the British and perhaps also from another third source.
The NTS like the Zch/OGN claims that it carries on its activities in the UWE,
that it maintains contact with a pet in the USSR, loaaat its disposal cadres in the
Seat Witting at any time to go to ,the4TBRIB,_etc,_,In short, the NTS claims.to:baone
of the greatest emigre threats to the pp, that the Zch/OUN:in comparison with the
NTS means nothing. That also is the opinion Of the majority of the American patrons
of the NTS.

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