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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.
2. Stefan Pandera was poisoned by the Comr,lunizecauseno laintinea etnCoa-Qt5 with the Uhraine end until hi3 vef,:y thelibeation .7,trueel•in the Ulasine. This story had two different angles: a. The potassium cyanide wan forced on Bar.dera in the elevator in the building where he lived., and, • b. The cyanide was in some manner given to Banters by one of biz closest associates who war a CormUnist aqent. • • 3. Stefan Bandera was poisoned by one id g,. allief of tc- 52, nyron.!Aatviyeyko, who supposedly had been in Germany for the past weeks and with when S. Pandora was reported to bave secretly met. 4. Stefan Pandora was poisoned• by his former associate and present strong politi- cal opponent Mykola Lebed 5. Stefan Benders committed suicide by taking cyanide. Each of these versions had some plausibility and at first there was so much basis for each one that it was-possible to accept any one version as the truth. Let us now examine them more carefully. 1. Stefan Bandera was poisonea by dehlen's group at the specific direction of . , Prof. Dr. Oherlaender. This is the COMmunist version which wab not only widely publicized in the USSR and all the satellite countries, but also in thQ CommuniSt and pro-ComMunist circles in the West. , In order to know why the eommuniat spread' this version, it i5 necessary to, 1.06% ihteAbe,pOliticalhappenises of at . least the past year. As early as late. 1958, and early 1959 the Soviet press in4Sigenthe neWspeper, FOR-BETUaN TO THE.EONELAND, Started. an extensive provocation Against the Ukrainian legion EACHTIGAL which, accord- ,: • ine to the Soviet press, was composed mostly* members of the OUN and Was organized •
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