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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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-3- at the request of Stefan Bandera in collaboration with German counterintelligence, and committed mass murders of Polish intelligentsia in Lvov in June of 19i. In the early articles regarding the FIACHTIGAL there was no mention made of Prof. Theodore Oberlaender. The articles were about 'Sanders, Shukhevich, Hrynoich and others; but 1f4-u.:e exclusively Ukrainians. In the meantime, in the spring or 1959, in addition to the earlier version about the crimes in Lvov, former lieutenant and present German Minister for Refugees, prof. Dr. Theodor Oberlaender,was mentioned as a "politruk" and "Uachtigalist" who, according to the Soviets, was responsible for the murders of Polish intelligentsia in Lvov, although the murders were actually committed by individual le- gionnaires. The Communists must have brought Oberlaender into the picture for the following reasons: During 1959 the Communist started to put pressures" on the Bonn - Government to establish diplomatic ties with satellite courAries, and especially with Poland and Czechoslovakfl. Pretests against such ties were 0.de by so-called Lmadamann- schaften from /1.c!1and and Czechoslovakia, and by Prof. Oberlaepder as Minister for Refugee Affairs. The Bonn Government joined their protests. Therefore the Communists were deter- mined to do away with Oberlaender and started their pressures 'against him, 'blaming him for the murders in Lvov. The qommunist : agitators were successful also in .getting art cles against Prof. Ober- laender into the West German .press, DIE .TAT, 23 September 1959. Vkidoubted/,y is.lSo under the influence of Communist agents,. on 25 September 1959, the FRI ,prepnizationof those persecuted by the Nazi . regime (Communist control) brought formal Ic p6e-cution into Bonn , courts against Oberlaender, requesting iffirestigation into his case\ In addition, 'the left wing, , socialist press also joined this movement. However, all Attacks made against Prof. Oberlaender were always 'iquade in connection with the Ukrainian nationalist legion VACHTIGAL.
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