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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.

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suicide was undoubtedly involved, and that for obvious political
reasons, the Banderites didn't want this fact to become known.
Further, the German Police have facts -which indicate that the
Banderites forbade certain individuals to reveal, any facts of S.
BANDEBA's case. The police questioned this, and they came to the
conclusion that statements made by these people tended to bring to
light the facts in this case. These indiVidUals are Dmytro MYSHKIV,
Sephan LENKAVSKY, and Vasil NINOVS'KY. Besides this, BANDERA's wife
was very talkative at first and revealed certain teats (as for instance,
the fact that BANDERA always carried cyanide an his person). She
later stated that she could not verify this fact. It was evident that
the Zch/OUN had forbidden her to talk.
FUCHS was so impressed with our three-hour Conversation that he
told me. this talk gave him more satisfaction and More facts than the
one hundred conversations he held with other individuals and that it
convinced him his 'analysis to date was correct. He told me that I
could easily replace armember of the commission engaged in the!investi-
gation of_BANBERA's death.
FUCHS met with me . again on 17 December 1959, at which time he was
more reserved. At first, I didn't know the reason, but Later KASHUBA
explained. During the second interview of BENTSAL, BENTSAL noticed
on FUCHS's desk a sheet of' yellow paper an which was written in German
the fact that M. KORZaAN of Paris was head of the commission investigating
the circumstances of BANDERA's death. It also listed Volodymyr DEYCHAKIVSKIY
of Canada and KASHUBA of Munich as members.

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