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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…
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And now suddenly the KGB murders not an NTEPleader but the less dangerous
Stefan Benders.: There are suicides here and suicides there, but most of the world
press is convinced that Handers was murdered by Communists. If that is true, then
it meane that the 2ch/OUN and Benders were a pester threat than the NTS and., God
forbid, the AMerican financiers viiilbe-eo convinced and viii redirect their aid
from the NIS to the Zeb/0113. Therefore the MCMhaiko decided to ;lent a bomb in the
empty TICTS buildiag and in this way prOve that they are no lesser threat (to the
KGB) than the Kch/CVN.
This is so obvious that it is not necessary for one to be ,a counter-intelligence
man in order to understand what is really behind it. The Make wanted.., to-
that the NTS 14 we less .11, revolutionary organisation than the Zch/CUB and that their
OrgaalsitiOn is as much a threat to the KGB as is the Sch/OUN. NOwever, the NTSob-
viously was lacking in other new ideas because .4.11ey repeated one of their old songs
which is so familiar to us all.'
In the Past year (or perhaps even in the early part of this year) an atteMpt
was ..made against the irm radio and that took Place after the radio was moved to anoth-
er point, actually two days later, After TtOTS moved:Pew:luxurious carters, a-hoMb7
ing incident took place in their old. building It occurs that no one is ever harmed
,
in these'.( TWOPSead NTS) banbiags.
Pleasebelievi; me,' if:the KGB 'were to take any ectioP, , it vault do. So at , i more
appropriate time, not uró days later, :,end the desired resUlts wouldba Obvious. I
considered the stink bonb ' Placed at the zoh/oqm building several hOurs earlier wee
to serve the NIS purpose: That ie to prove, that the KGB plades beimtnil bombs in thiqr.:
(rig ) buildings but oaly,smokes out the Zch/OUN with stink bembs..

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