Documents / FOIA release
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
-8- Let us work with them individually. 2he 7.)ast cf Yr. Bantsal is not clear. He was director of the Lvov theaters under the communists. This means the communist trusted hiss. Why? About a year ago he was visited by an old thaater.friend from Lvov who urged him to return to the homeland. He brought with him a book about e -daafather whom the communists consider a celebrated. artist. Bentsal told the SB about this meeting. The SB planned to have Bentsal meet with the Soviet again in a room where they would instal/ a microphone. However, the courier from Lvov refused to meet in the room, and he talked to Bentsal out on the street 'where no witnesses were present. Then he returned to Lvov. It is difficult to say whether or not Genteel told the SB everything that was said anriag this conversation. Bettsal's wife, Nadia nee Lototska, is a pharmacist and 'works in a German apothecary where she has access to potassium cyanide. Theoretically there are possibilities that Bentsal could have been a party to the murder of Benders,. For some reason I excluded this possibility from the very beginning. . The fact that the KGB tried to get him to Lvov is not sufficient proof that he would have destroyed Bandera. The KGB couldn , t blackmail him be.% cause he has no relatives in the homeland. Eventually they could have revealed his role in the theatre but he could have talked hi.; way out of this.. Dr. Gregory Vashkovych: Neither I personally nor the criminal police could find even the slightest probability that he could have been in touch with the KGB. The same could. be Said about Boman Behrytancy. The sp would sooner be willing to say that Raman Debryts'ky could be an American agent rather than a Soviet agent. Evhenia Matviyeyko She was suspected. most by the German police and by me.. The following were the reasons. Iy personal reason: Probably nobody beside me knows that *khalifs Horodests'ky, the brother-in-law of Evhenia Koshulunska Matviyeyko. ■.;.- -.Mak,'after the arrival of the communist6in Lvov in October 1939, was promoted to commandant of the militia in Lvov. He remained in this position until the arrival of the Germans in Lvov in late June or early July 1941. He went to the east together with the NKTD. Ia 1944 he re- turned to Lvov and is :Ain there. khsito orodets'I:y is a simple cabinet maker.
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