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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.
“Bender”13 pages
assured me that after investigation of tir" above-mentioned Germans, the criminal police eempletely excluded. them from havins anything to ,fo with Bandera's death. Besides that: a cyanide capsule would have become effective much sooner than 24 hours later. The., '- fore, the Soviet account will not stand up to the criminal police in v estigation report. personally am of the same opinion. Sow let us. go to the second version. St,fan Pandora was pOiscned by Soviet agent,- There are two versions to this account: Soviet agents forced the capsule on Bandera on the stairs of his home, and • b. one ofBandera's close associates from the Zch/OUN gave him the potassiuM cyanide in the form of candy or fruit. The 'first version was the one most speculated on by the Banderites. • They even talked about two individuals who were supposed to have gotten out of the elevator just about the time of Bandera's death and run away.- The Banderites even stated that two such in- dividuals were seen to have been acting as if they were-surveilling Bandera during the • last fey days before. his death, even when he drove out to the woods to:piek'Mushrooms. . According to the police, , however, there was no evidence foUnd (after queStioning resi- dents and neighbors) of two men leaving the premises at the time of Bandera's death and there were no signs of violence found on Bandera'S body. A neighbor of Bandera stated that he didn't hear any noises or fOotsteps other than Bandera's. AlsO, according to the neighbor, ther.re:were no slgns . that the elevator hadjen in use at that particular time The basket of fruit which stood beside Bandera'a.body witnessed . the fact that he had carefully set it down. his basket would have fallen to the ground and the fruit would have been scattered if there had been any otruggle.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 28 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.