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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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4111111111111P Suddenly Bandera dies, and immediate ly there is the story that he was poisoned unaer specific orders from Oberlaender who, it is said, wanted to get rid of an inconvenient witness, insofar as he (-)beriaender) ;ins concerned.. According to the Soviet Press, Bandera as a partici pant in the murders in Lvov, would have been able to testify against Oberlaender. the Communist version is pri=itive and O nes not stand up against criticism because: If Bandera was a participant in the Lvov murders, or more specifically the MkCITITGAL, which was organized at his request, then it is clear that he could only have defended Prof. Oberlaender in order to proteet himself. Lo,gic would indicate otherwise; i.e., the BOB wanted to do away with Bandera who would have been able to testify in defense of Prof. Oberlaender. In defense of the Soviet version, we have a somewhat obscure coincidence. Since the middle of September German investigative forces. (it is still not clear -whether they were Gehlen people or the Bundesamt far Verfassugnschutz) were talking about meeting with Stefan Bandera. As a result such a meeting did take place on 14 October 1919 in the Bayerischer Hof in Munich. There were three German intel- ligence men whose names are not icoo-en to me. The following from the Zch/OUN were pre- • sent: Stefan Bandera, Yaroslav Bentsal, General Secretary of the Zch/OUN and Dr. Vas:kovych. t The conversation concerned the cooperation of the Zeh/OUN with Getman intelligence, /T financial subsidy by the Germans, and in Particular about-the.continuation of ch/OiJil ties with the Homeland. The German accepted all the suggestions made by the Zch/OUN and promised all sorts of aid. Stefan Bandera was very satisfied with the results of the talks.
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