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 NOTES FROM THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE PRESS
'fice use only)

Ukrainian April 21, 1954

BANDERA'S NATIONALIST GROUP SPLITS OVER HIS REFUSAL TO SUBMIT

/
TO ALLEGED DIRECTIVES FROM "HOMELAND"

The controversy between Stepan Sanders, head of the "Leadership"

of the Foreign Section of the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement (OUN),

and the two-man "Collegium of Plenipotentiaries," Dr: Lev Rebet and

Zynoviy Matla--who last February 12th, by exercising authority al-
legedly granted by the . OUN underground in the Ukraine, declared that
they Were disbanding the Foreign Section's Leadership and releasing `
its adherents from allegiance to it—,brought about a split in that
organization. After the German court recognized the licensee : Modest

:FApecky, a Rebet-Matla man, as the owner of the Munich OUN organ;

Ukrainskyl Samostiynyk, the pro-Bandera "Leadership" had to start,

.'
lta'own,publication l Shlyakh Peremohy (The Way to Victory). The for
. • . 1
'
nation of new Foreign Section's organs:by,the Rebet-Matia,"Collegium"

to replace those,contr011edby Bandera created a similar duplication.

,
in the organization's apparatus. Finally, the exiled OUN units in
various Countries and their pepers'began to choose sides In the quar-
rel,thus carrying the split inta.the:Membership.
As reflected in the press the momentary situation in the OUN
'Crisis leaves the imPression''that the anti-Bancfera coup:d i etat 7 the-
sOUrce of which is 'Seen in the rival Foreign Representation Of the .

Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council ' ( NVR)--found considerable sup-

port among OUN'elementsln MuniOn, ineluding , some of BanderOs close

•
 AV-493

associates. However, outside of Germany the01IN units seem to have

been unpleasantly surprised by these events and are mostly rallying
behind the Bandera leadership against a threat of a possible chaos.
Thus, the Paris pro-Melnyk Ukrainske 51 ovo of April 4th appraises
the situation as follows:
"Today" the Bendera camp is absolutely on an offensive. It is
hard to decide today which side iti) stronger, but it seems that more
of the rank-and-file cadres remained with Bandera. At present, it
is difficult to predict how it will be tomorrow."

Bandera t s Disobedience to the "Law of the Homeland" Condemned .-

The March 7th Ukrainskyi Samostiynyk carries several statements
• issued by Rebet and Matla as the two-man "Collegium" informing the
OUN membership in exile how Stepan Bandera "disobeyed" the Orders'of
• the "homeland" and attempted "to create a diversion within the OUN
ranks." The series of documents begins with a "decision of the OUN"

• Leadership in the Ukraine" of last Summer, by which a committee of .

three, including Rebet, Matla and Bandera,'was instructed to carry
. -0 . .
out a "reorganization" . of the OUN Foreign Section in accordance with
the directives. of the "Leadership" at home. It reveals how Bandera,
after prolonged negotiations, consented last December to particaate
• in the:work of the committee and helped to formulate its program,
only to leave, it shortly afterwards. This fact; it is said :, forced
• the other two members to proclaim themselves as a two-man "Collegium
.of Plenipotentiaries" in order to tarry out the homeiand!S . instruc-
tions without Bandera, The last of the documents, signed by Y.
Lemish, alleged to be the "Head of the OUN Leadership in the Ukrain-

ian . Lands t " declares that Bandera "is not the OUN • Leader either'for7

Mally or actually," and urges him to "discontinue his disruptive.

ections ..," '

•
 AV-493 -3-
An editorial comment . , headlined "Obedience to the Law," stresses
these noteworthy points:
(1) that Bandera ceased to be the Headof the CCN in 1943, when
he resigned from that office, and .that later on, in June,• 1953, the
Fourth Conferenee of the OUN Foreign Section took the stand that the
OUN Leadership existed in the Ukraine;
(2) that, accordinilly, the ouN Leadership in the homeland has
"complete authoritr i to decide all Matters pertaining to the OUN'
'Foreign Section, whose LeaderShip is obligated to carry out the
nomeland t.s decisions without reservation;
(3) that for a long time-there was a state of conflict between
r.
' "a part of the Foreign Section's Leadership" and "the so-Called
internal opposition.," and th this situation caused the Leadership
in the Ukraine to ordera reorganization of the Foreign Section by
a three-member coMmittee;
(4) that,. after a short period of cooperation with the other
: two members of the committee, Bandera and "a part of the Foreign
Section's-Leadership" began to insist upon their "autonomy" and to
,roceed with a reorganization on theirown by;removing.members of
the LeaderShip:and by making other . changes independently of-the:cern-
,mittee of three;
- (5) that this behavior of Bandera forced the two other members •
.of_the T3mmitiee . to take upon themselves thecontinuation_of the
'reorganization work as a two-man "collegium" with the 'Understanding'
that Bandera Would be free to return whenever he chose to do: sef,
Commenting.ohLeMish's Statement which denies that Bandera is
the OUN Leader and condemns his disruptive, actions, the. weekly
 AV-493 -4-
observes:

"The above document of the OUN Leadership in the Homeland

vealS that for a long time the homela:Id took critical'attitude
toward what was being done by Bandera in exile. There were many
attempts to correct this. Even an internal opposition mov'ement
emer g ed from these circumstances and made efforts to influence from
within Bandera's policy, backed faithfully and stimula.ted by Yaroslav
S te tsko...Various methods were used: long debates were conducted,
during which Bandero l s old-time friends and political co-workers
sought to change his mind. Nevertheless, Bandera held to his posia:
tion. He stubbornly continued to proceed along his course disre-
garding the opinions of homeland and of the leading OUN members in
exile:" .
•

Cooperation with UHVR Established

UkrainSkvi Samostiynyk of March 14th carries a communique of

th e Rebet-Matla "Collegium" announcing the appoihtment of a new

Political Council of the OUN Foreign Section. The list'of its mems
bers includes such Well-known Supreme Liberation Council (UHVR)
'leaders as Rev. Ivan Hrynioch and . Vladimir Stachiw, together with
some Bandera Opponents from the 011a outfit. Another communique of
the same issue, signed by UHVR 'representatives And the tWo,member
' itollegium," as well as the representatives of the new OUN Foreign
Section's organs, discloses that the:UHVR Foreign Representation
and • the':OUN Foreign Section entered into an aOre-ement Of cooperation.-
The communique quotes the text Of a message from the OUN organs'
--addressed to MykOla Lobed, the UHVR's foreign secretary, ip which
- the authority of the UHVR Foreign Representation is recognized in -

. all matters in which it was dinied till now by the Bandera-led OUN

Organs. .Theseare:
• .
:

,"(1) to represent abroad the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation

Council l UHVIO,'the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OPA),, the Ukrainian .
'Liberation 'Underground and the entire liberation movement in the
.Ukraine; . •
• "(.2) to condUCt political-dtplomatic,and propaganda actipns
abroad along the lines of the Ukrairian'liberation.mOvement'at home:"
 AV-493 -5-
4/elc9ming the OUN-UHVR agreement, the weekly comments:

"For the first time since the UHVR came to life, that is to say,
-since its foreign representation began to act, the latter was as-
sured of the OUN Foreign Section's support in such a clear manner.
"Till now, it was not so. Formally, the Foreign Section of the
GUN recognized the Foreign Representation of the UHVR, but it never
backed its words by deeds. Since 1945, these two formations of the
Ukrainian revolutionary movement were involved in bitter quarrels
over the authority, particularly over the role of the Foreign Repre-
sentation.. .As a matter of fact, the Foreign Representation never
had any support from the Foreign Section and was mostly forced to
fight with it for its prestige.".
The paper states that, in accordance with the 1950 suggestion

of the homeland's OUN Leadership, the , UHVR Foreign Representation was

to represent the Ukrainian liberation movement abroad,'take care of
A diplomatic and foreign-political activities, also organize actions
in support of the liberation movement at home, while the OUN Foreign
Section was to devote itself to political education of its member-
ship and the exiled community in general, as well as to Propagand-
izing the liberation Movement abroad. It hints that the present
cooperation will be effected along these lines.
"Foreign" Hand in Rebet-Metla Action Hinted

While, all moves of the Rebet-Matla "Oollegium" apparently aim

confronting"Bandera:and his followers, with a new otp, apparatus
-abroad, dominated by an alliance of the . CON opposition elements with
the UHVR leaders, poPularilY known as the "Lebed-ists," the Bandera
camp, on its part, concentrates mainly on efforts to preserve 'the
continued loyalty of the' exiled CON membership by exposing the 'rival
action as an illegal l'diversionist intrigue" undertaken in the

interests of "foreign factors.", The task is aided by the fact that

' the. Majorities in the Leadership and in the OUN Supreme Council .
 AV-493 -6-

apparently remain loyal to Bandera.

• As already reported, the February 16th communique of the Foreign

Section's Leadership branded the action of the "Collegium" as "il-

legal" and , contrary to the will of? the OUN authorities in the

homeland." A similar message to the OUN membership abroad, issued

on February 24th by the Foreign Section's Supreme.Council, condemned

. -the "wilful" action of Rebet and Matla as "aiding foreign, non-

Ukrainian factors hostile to the Ukrainian liberation cause."

AnOther argument used by thepro-Bandera camp is its claim that

the UriVR leaders with whom Rebet and Matla made a deal are "pro--

• Marxist" and,agents of foreign, particularly American:,

. “ intelligence.
Accusations against the UrIVR men of pro-Marxist tendencies, appearing
11
often in pro-Bandera publications, are mainly based 611 the editorial

, policies of the Munich Suchasna Ukraine, the UHVR organ, Which ac-

cepts certain economic and social features of the Soviet system. The

charge is also raised in the February 26th resolution of the dON

District Leadership in Great Britain, where it is said

"On the basis of certain current facts, in particular the writ-

ing of Suchasna Ukraina, we conclude that the Foreign. Representation
of • the liHVR takes a pro-Marxist position and propagates it, thus
harming the Ukrainian liberation movement. In'view of this apparent
fact, the two-man committee was forced....to admit certain 'errors'
of the UHVR Foreign Representation And its organ, but it did not
condemn them..."

. The most recent contribution to the campaign of compromising

the Bandera opponents by discrediting their UHVR allies as agents of •;-- •

foreign intelligence is the publication in the March 28th issues of

the Paris Ukrainets7Chas and the Munich Shlyakh Peremohy of an ."Open

: Letter" from the Pails weekly's( editor, Danylo ChaykOvSky, to Zenon

 AV-493 -7-

Pelensky of the Munich Ukrainskyi Samostiynyk. Pelensky remained

s../i.th that weekly after its publisher threw his support to the Rebet-
Matla "Collegium" against Benders. The "open letter" consists mostly'
of quotations from Pelensky's letters sent to Chaykovsky during the
Jest five years, in which the writer repeatedly expressed his in-
dignation over UHVR's receipt of "sewer money" for its alleged ser-
vices for U.S. intelligence. For example, a letter by Pelensky of
February 17, 1952, is quoted by Chaykovsky thus:
"Personally. I have no doubts that the entire UHVR Foreign
Representation-racelves sewer money. In particular, I do not believe
1 and will never believe that the $7,000 received from the Ukrainian
Congress Committee of America would be sufficient to toy er all
their expenses. They ate up that money a long time ago, and they
did not receive any new money from the Congress Committee,, If not
for their sewer obligations, even such characters as Wreciona,
'Captain' Martinec and Hrynioch would not dare to consent to re-
cruiting parachutists for the AmerileOs from amidst university
students. But they consented to'i ndtook part in recruiting men
for such a flegion'."
Pelensky answered Chaykovski with a statement in Ukrainskyi
Samostiynyk Of March 28th, in which, he branded his friend's revel-
ations as "indecent:falsification." The charge was repudiated by
Chaykovsky in Ukrainets-Chas Of Apra 4th, where he accepted Pelen-
sky's challenge thatthe matter be submitted to arbitration. Chay-
.
kovsky-added that, Should Pelensky fail to,substantiate his charges

of "falsification" in ' the'coUrse of the ' next three months, he would

publish Pelensky's letters in their entirety So that the.Ukrainian
community could draw its own conclusions.
 (FSIS, Hay 3, 1950 RESTRICTED)

, .
I
. . •
Comment an Bandera's Appearance . • .. : \
. I
.

0.,. R--.) • ,
•!
.

ZYCIE WARMAWY (nonparty), carries an article discussingtha news that 1

,
Ste an.Bandera,.the notorious.-Ukrainian fascist, the spiritual leader of .
l' • the 3S Qa izien, leader of the UPA (Ukrainian insurgent'arAY), gailty of
L the death of tent: of thousands of Poles, has, come Olt of hiding near Munich
1 in Bavaria. The author of the article discusses Bandera'sYtalk with the
I so7cal3.ed representatives he restern press; In this talk Bandera
'1' stated that be was willing to give his support: and help to thellestern
Powers if, of course the Wattern Powers abandon their attemPt to-maintain -
lawfUl relations pith Russia. -■

"Commenting aa this, the author of the artiale'states:' 'Gen. Guderien,

the same man who thoraighly destrcriedlarsaw;' : i6 now reorganizing -the .
General Staff of the U.S. Armk.Shefed!. Benderti;.an obedient agent of,
itlezob and traitor to the Ukrainian :Nation,. the- murderer of tens ot ..•! •
thousands of Poles, comes but intb thec'epen with the permission of the.,
.S. 'authorities. • .
i
"Of course, I an mystified ity. the Vdice..of America has not yet broadcast-
the news in Polish, the news Of the career's of the Nazi:general, Heinz.
uderian, and the Nazi, Stefan Bendera. - , Ia it that the Voice of America. -
i gnoring the appeal Of President Truman end Scretaty of State Aches
spread the truth about . the'nel*and her 'po1icy110 .1

•••• • . •
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•,

V..:

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 BANDA 3tefm
USSR

:(FUIS Swims/7, May 1, 1950 RESTRICTED)

' ZYCIE WARSAZAWY announces that Stefan Ranaark has appeared in the ,Western
Germany l 'sith the permission of the U.5. authorities" and couples this
"notorious Ukrainian fascist" with Gen. Guderian, the destroyer of Warsaw,
who is now "reorgnizing the general staff of the U.S.. Arty." The paper
wonders why the Voice of .Aierica harpilotbroadcast , this nowt to. Poland,
in lino with President Truman's appeal that the truth abcatt American
licy be spreadrebroad.::
 BANDERA, Stepan USSR

Christian Solana@ Wcinitor April 21, 1950

11k-r aitiian Rebel ilicIes.Aff-ain

.

After Brief Talk in Germanirl: r

tr." . Av 4110 1Aild yr,'
r„Heidelberg, Germany early 1920's agoimi Poland and I
'A reputed leader 61 a Ukrain- Russiav.an indcPandent
" .
Ian glierrilla movement against Ukraine -Ono stor:,• , !, ‘svs the Acniv,
the Soviet .Union has vanished that he par led in the
again in Germany as suddenl y as assassination ol. Polishinterior
he appeared. Minister Bronisiaw Pieracki in
1934, was arrested and ventenced
.;American intelligence author-
to a tong prison term. •
Wes said they had no idea Where 'It has been established that'
to find Stepan -Bandera, .a mys- he was treed by advancing Ger-
tery lighter wheseTaTi71; to be the man troops in 1939, authorized to
military chief of anti-Bolshevilc
Ukrainians. form the or ganization of Ukrain-
- sass Nationalists, and -brought to
Eandera came oulcof hiding Germany. He reportedly did not
long enough recentl y to appeal fight against Russia but worked
tor western allied sufiport. of u p - . '•
derground movement, fighting the illegal)'
Soviet regime in eastern Europe. Fought Nazis
He talked to five ne■rs ooree "He reportedly seas, as' by
, spondents in a secret rendezvous. the Germans again Ana int-
Then, telling the newspapermen promnect. Alter a short period, he
to wait . 10 minutes,- he departed
With a group of nine armed body- was set' free on the premise In
guards, fight the Russians. He again
Mereatouts Unknown fought the Germans, however,
with his partisans."
' The Unitee States Army an- Bandera confirmed this in the
' toduneed officially: g, GI refused to
- "We know nothing about the interview, collaboratesayin with the Gellman} and
.presence of Bandera in the United
States zone. = • .; cl-l'ePed
saidnhjeanduiragt,ed19t4h5e"Ukrain,
t The United States High Com- Partisait Army. tUPA1 which
mission's imellig '"°' division had,.in 1945. a strength of fin0,000
• said:
"IL WaS not known to usthael!..,.. 'nen•
1 Y-Reports in 1947 said the UPA
Bandera wan .,•ermany. The:t.t nett been decimated and scat-
• first We hear( v"s fro nt
- tered .tri— Polish and Russian
correspondents. troops,,2Several hundre.1 ragged
Bandera took • elaborate pre- "banneZevici" fled to German),
cantons. in corning out of hiding. at thatlirne: :
The selected group of corre- • 4' '
spondents first received calls front
the Ukrainian Notional ;Commit-
tee, a group representing Ukrain-
ian displaced persons in Germany.
The correspondents were told to
go to a Munich. café. There they
were met by a member of the s
, Ukrainian committee and packed , .
Into two cars.
I Outside Munich they changed
ears and drivers and Wound up in
o I a tiny inn at Grenwald, A suburb
of -Munich. Several men with
bulging pockets guaizied the cafe.
. "Bandera will come," the cor-
,mg4Bnedeitts.,,ty ere It
• He did so after about 15 min-,
tabs. gave his interview, and
a then left as mysteriously as he
, ' •canue.
Sanders retused- to nay how
• long he had been in Germany, or
how he moved around. He said
his guards always accompanied
him.. He said he had, no eonnee-
• Sons with the ijnited States Army
counterintelliOnce corps
! The Munzinger Achiv;;a Ger-
n biographical nulffifekt14-
st Bander.. is an "obscure It-
ure, \said, to have fought e
BiVIDMA, Stepan USSR

News Review, April 13, 1950

• • •

taking no chances.
was
Reporters who wanted to see him
• last week were screened and taken .
Vrom a Munich cafe to another-point
kin the city. They were made to
Change cars and taken to a nearby
village. • A , squad of husky, armed
• bodyguards stood by While Handers
spoke through an interpreter.
• Thre will be," he said, ." a blood-
."

revolution everywhere that Corn-

.

'' . - r" •

-
± ;7.
-,,...nacc,:.s;; so -far:"7this
ZrAp4-mannered,Lbalding man's, idea of -
an -Vndependent Ukraine has been
longyed. He has been the centre. of
a scans, of Eastern European plots In -
, the past 311 years. „,.
• Today. While , he Is in hiding near'
• Munich with his -wife, three children .
a few faithful follower . hi.gr
, guerilla bands operate aroun esvov. t,
,giariing his fight .against—both.
. • Russia and PU1h1is1922Bandeta
Voillat-eiteglit"Clbtil 1934.. Hamm-
ghisherrin-La .WirsaW anth_tbe
azis• freed hlin - fn 1910: alught Int
ciai-rtainst then with Rus-
hTftriberillas .. agarnst -the_ge.r.iiiani •
'Vier he found the Germans were ushait,
hIm 1:•
Since -I\5. his malts enemy has been
, Russia again. Now he describes him-
sell as a ;:wittler,polit.401411VAIR.r.rletrdr-l•
r: 75 „
' C l'VVINy ended, reporters-,

zprz,st xtij t it . srIT -

BANDERA, Stepan USSR

Christian Science Monitor, April 1, 1950

IJItrainian Rebel Lroes 'West

To Help Overthrow Krem
. • Munich. Germany Newsmen invited to an inter-
Ste p an Bandera, reputed leader view at Mr. Bandera's heavily
of MI toritCommunist under- : guar:fed hide-out high in the *-
ground in the Soviet Ukraine, t vanan hills were taken there by v.istern Russia which one
came out of hiding March 31 and a secret route. During the journey of- the .6 so-called republIN,In
rged western support for revo- they changed tars twice to throw the Soviet' Union. MI,__Bande,sa
utionary. groups he said were Off any possible shadowers. said he waseiretodBend .OLthe
plotting the overthrow of the Armed bodyguards surrounded OrgYniiiiion _Dr Ukrainian bia-
Russian dictatorship. Bandera as he: notiabils and that his_grndiCka.
He also warned that Russia I. Urged the western powers fought since 1926 for national -In-
would Start a shooting war as to Tilt trying to • deal "legally". dependence;
anon as It could no longer gain wilts Russia'and instead to begin --At - the' height -ot' lts power in
through the cold war. He said his supporting the revolutionary 1945, Mr. Handel-a said, his or-
group had intelligence reports anti-Communist 'movement ,with- ganization had more than 200.000 •
from inside Rustle telling ,of mo- in Russia and Its satellites. armed rneri' and enga ged several
bilization for total war. • 2. Promised that the •Ukrain. •di V isions Of Soviet troops in corn-.
These reports, he .said, prob- iani would support the western bat.
ably found their -way into the powers in combat against Russia Now, he said, the Soviet Army
hands of the American Counter if assured their • national . inde- has reduced the Insurgents to
Intelligence Corps. He added he pendence. • • -small scattered bands waging a
lid not collaborate with the CIC. 3. Predicted an eventual re-
In fact., Mr. Handers said, not volt within the Soviet Union ‘g•en u 'grl
eallnace‘.'Brufar
t, b "glhon
'aebr6ted
e eofass eiSte
oisly the Communists but also the which would overthrow the Cam- are 15,000,000 Ukrainians
CR, has tried to flnd him on occa- monist dictatorship... will, rally in revolt behinr/this
sion) The Ukraine la a start area in force "when the firoe; : ii •j•
•• •
6/4/48/kk

fror..
a r..:.rtIal ts th.0 r,,ferenee L:oncernin;_., tn
•
...., , nztttier, i%ct:iar tho virrmider of the 15 r.er.r.rs
rr Cr.os Group no, .(r pv.• at no)
re-uont:- n thtCh........nunrters, nor hz,ve ery ..zuch 1:0,:;uesti
been filed 'with th, 7-.oard in Berlin-. The Office 01' the
reputy -rect,or Ita,e11.164,ce, EU:a): has ropnrted however thut only n the
case of one Individual, Ctephan liandara, severe-1. hlj. tovict failitary
;figurer, directly renue,ted his extradition in letterooto ■.13 . ..rray Officers •

,,'as x letter dilted 15 Octo:ior' from Colonel (3;:neral `:F.3:0C11.:.11; to .

: .eno:f a.1 T . . D. Clay. In addition, per.sooa1 diecu ,seions took iilaCe . oi. Crie. sub-
C .

: ; toct
• between. toviet 41c1 .15 Aro; Officers a nut■.ber of times.. .

tone :rninir the investigation of the prtitular ctses, °DUI,

, .

.it has infolw.tica only of U :fr.': fifteen individual:. ,:.ientiomet.'.

. . .

nar,-,ely Par,ae:ra and

s (Sources. :A-401; Berlin, NIT 13, 1948,- SECRET).
The axtent to which US intelli;:ence . went to 1 1 dancicra vtill be approcit...!c( 4 .

• from. a ;:uotatidi; - from their report to thia lassion. :

,
'he memorandum above I.preaented by f olonel ' guring j

•fiet::.-. ,bor:191.1.6 to colonel .st tevene, Qiiof -of 6untor intelligence-

,

.1.1.ranc:1,:nontaininy, charger. against Lk:zit:lora and is ,photagre.ph)

contained an incomplete tt. of nine (9) pereon4 could.
furnish information concerning the location of • Dtj. . uhly 5').

of t : vle p orzons could be located. They were all cloaelriitterrOgoteel

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ORP, BANDERA, S. (USSR, A11) FranktUrt, XaveMber 21, 147\

STX4T..:T
NO. b25
SULISKOT: . Offer of le/list/ince to the 7nitsd States
Againat the GS::qi on the Fart of Dissident
Ukrainians

The lionorabia
Secretary of State, •

E. Weabinzton':

Sirt-
aith reference to my desootch no '21-A of July )S,
1947 entitled " riffer of Asstotonee to• the Vnited• States • ;#

• .k;R! ,i.Itt the TA.7,nr: 'on the :r.rt of . D1s3ident IThraihe. .. . '
1 ••=c7,, the honor ta inform the De')ort.tent : thet the awls
• man, whez, tame is now Alvan R3 Tarn* Bullm_naa:ZO, .-.
is presently lay-log .91E1ns, accordinp to a recent •Intel-
.1tenee report, for the 'formation of a. 11n :rational
Ounrd (115:). Accordirw to thla report, W:IiIs the
M.:rainien National i'eople i • Arrq (p gilA) would atIll be .
the military arm Of the .74rainian National Republic
(U1R) (the "government,in-exile" of Andreij . Levitzky or -
.Levicki), the UNG would be a small, well.;organizod,
. soloist outfit to serve an a nucleusibr'lln expanded army

in the event of future eenruet. ria personnel Wolad

consiet • of persons with Military background Including
'. former members of the Red Az 'Who wore forcibly induoted'
-
• :

when the tierVieti occupied the Ukraine.

...,, . . .
7/bile the -relationship between -UZ:RA and MG Is not
• clear from the report, nor indeed the funotitn of the .
• latter in view of the existence of the former, it is . ,
stated that the fact of the UAG is intended "to be 1
sooret except to top-level Officers, and. all tranaattions .. 1
, • will be earricd , on %oder the cloak of URA. "- Strr.cture,' •
I .'strength and mothode . of operation are unknown at present, • !

' • but further reporte are expected:

. . . . . . .
. . The roport conolUdes with . the•following paragraph.
' • comparing the UNBA and the so-called . WA oft. tefati ' •
- .. ' EANDFIIA. .• .• • , A
. . •
.: .
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*SULU and biaDIRA appeared to be inactive, over a'

period of nor* than six Months. During that , perioda . '.
the rival . UPA, the milltary arm : of URITR, the Ukrainian...
.
.• ' faOtion • '

'
 BECT,ET

faction beaded by Ftefan A ap•Aared to be more

active.. ersvious information indicated that 11V-ills
bovvra-hAnt Intends to effect independence of: the taRADFE
through cooperation with k Creator power, and to refrain
from efforts in that direction until such a power bocomes
Ir?lligerent against the SOVIET UNIOI. BANVERA, on. the
°Vier hand, advocates action now, and cooperation with
another power only on equal terms, and not se a subar
dinate ally." •

Ln . triplicate to the Department

Co,)y . for . CE:tr. Beam
Copies •tot
AmeriCan Ymbasey, Moscow
American Dahomey, London
(For Awbaesador Uurphyla Mr, Otfle)

File lio,820.02a.
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 HANDERA, Stephen

Generalissino end Commander in Chief of the CPA (Ukrajinska

•
Porstalecka Armija - organized by B. from his former Banderovic and

has bean fighting as an organized unit since May 1944) and possible .

• President of the MYR ( Ukrainaka llolowna Viecralnia Rode - Ukrainian

Free People's RNgime) is in both the Polish and Russian Ukraine lo.oked

upon as the spiritual leader a nd natloaa l hero of all Ukrr.inians. Yet,

• he sometimes approaches the statue of a ythical figure, for there are

JD

but few Ukrainians who can actually lay claim to having ever seen him.
both
The Priority A target of/the MVO and the Polish Political police , hated

by many of his own Ukrainians jealous of his power and hold over .his

nationals, he iscconetantly en route, frequently in disguise, always .

protected by- a stalwart wall of $R men, and never at any time one location .

for more :then a few days. Occasionally he is reported to have appeared

for brief, unannounced visits before Ukrainian groups throughout

.lturope, or for brief inspections among UPA troops in the Ukraine, but

his route for these trips is always veri cerefitlly guarded . eloret known

only to a very few high MR officials. A description of hia is almost

impossible to obtain.

Source: Inclosurk4tc‘Despatch189, October 5,1949, Frankfurt. SECRET

 BENDERA,

(New" York Times, September 13, 1947). fqc-r

.. . . ,.
1,.5 Anti-Red Ukrniniansi
i.., ; Are Seized in U. S. Zone: .
• vitArockvar Atis 54.•■11.
12 M.—Thirty-five armed 3nd'
uniformed men who professed to
be anti-Communist 'Ukrainians
were arrested by United States
•'Constabulary troopers yesterday
after illegally crossin g the border
Irons Austria into American-ac-
copied GerMany near Passau.
,ItIndZ.tl. Stales ,Army officials said
ip
Some of the captured men ex..'
.: resied fear . they would be exe-
cuted If Caught In .Russla or Po-
land. They described themselves
is an advance party of • a large;
group fleeing frora the intealliet .
and eastern Poland.onstablilarY
troops have been alerted to watch
or others. .- . .
wearing iml- •
The capturedniers,
forms described as Russian and. -
Polish. said they came through.
Poland; Czechoslovakia and the
Russian raise a Austria In theiri
tourney to the Amer-icon zone.;
They surrendered :without re-,
*ranee to. the Americana
All carried rifles and came were .--- •
reported to have machine guns.
and grenades. Some described • ... .
. 'themselves as "fienderoviels" and
. said they Were followers of a
;White Russian (anti-soviet) gets- t.
. , I name d_Bendera.........
_ ' .'
for"*TheY werreed and 0 '. .
..; ftensed as any Illegal border cross..., ..,
•'as," a high Army official said: i
s.ir ultimate . disposition hag,
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 BANLERA, StPuan Anireevich aliasest Petr Borovsky

Sollicr-politician. Member, later chief of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of

(ABN) ' Left the Ukraine for Germany about 1930-1933. Lives in West
Nations,Aince 1950. Formerly Assistant Chief of the Organization of Ukrainian__

Nationalists indPoland and in charge of its propaganda nepartMent, 1932-1935.

&extract= Tried and sentenced in a Warsaw Court in 1935; imprisoned until

,
1939; freed by the Germans and headed, 0010 after a - split with the Melnik

:- •
faction since 1939r . Tdok,part Ar the proclamation of Ukrainian independence.

at wow 1941. Imprisoned by the Germane, 194171944. joined the Ukrainian

Partisan Army (UFA), ' 1944; resumed anti-Soviet struggle forUkrainianindepehdence

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 SE(RET c ONTROL U. S. OFFICALS
• SECURRINFO RMATION
HANDERA, Stepan AndreyevAch 5 December 1951

1. Place and data of birth: Born 1909,at Ugrinov, Kalushki region, Staniolavok
District, Dkraine.V tk,„ ed...6G6-1
)
2. Residence: Munich, Germany./

3. Education. and profession: Educated at the University of Krakow, Po1and.1/

4. Occupations:
• -- -1932 Chief or propaganda of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationelists
(OUN).1/
1932-1935 Assistant chief Of OUN and leader of its activities in Po1and.2/:
1935-1939 Sentenced by the Warsaw Court to eight years in prison for illegal
political activities in 1935; freed by the Germans in 1939.2/ 4./
'1939-date' After split with Mel i nik faction of OUR, headed Organization of
Ukrainian Rationalist Revolutionists (orm,04,/ 2/ 2/
1941 ,Associated ,with the proelamation,of Ukrainian independence at Lwow;
- ----aofterwards-hisorganization-was-reportedto.be engaged...in bloody:
'fights with other Ukrainion resistance groups, notabljr those of
Borovets;its well 8.0 with Russians, Poles anetermans4/
• 1941-1944 Imprisoned hY the Germans-in Sachsenhausen concentration
'camp. for reeisting German restrictions 'on Ukrainian nationalists.
1944. Joined the Ukrainian Beeistance Army (UP) and resumed anti-Bovist
struggle for Ukrainian ihdepondenceat ' 4,„..._4....;.4(jec,La.;46..
• 1945-date ' Living in the vicinity of Munich4 g4dibting the operations of the
- organizations --

5. Political affiliations: •
a. Ukrainian Democratic Republio (URL), and
IP. Ukrainian National Council (UNR) ,.
Handera le organization conetitutos the only opposition group in the
UNR, since they refused the invitation to join the ezecutiva.organ. They
' bad failed to obtain frowthe .UNR reCognition-for the'OHYR as encharged
with the liberation fight in Ukrainian territory'./ Acdording to another
_source, disagreement arose from the desire of Bandera to- right all Russiand
everywhere and to 'split Russia into ,numerous small. independent units, While
the UNR . ii opposed to a premature determination of Russia'a fUture.2/
-• ••
o. 'Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN),.and
d. Organization of Ukrainian Nationalist Revolutionists+ (OUN-R) (Handera)
The OUN, established in 1923, broke into tWo..wings about 1940, the '
One headed by Mel!nik, former' chief of the whole organization,'And the
other lea 1# Bandera.2/ The disunion , in OUR was said to be due to_BaUderals
determinetion to_hold fast ,..to . the„prracipled.of_dictatorshiP end conspiracy
and to . permit_no . democratic ,Lcontrol of -financial ezpendithres.
CallY, OUR-ft was.reported to support the , Poncept of permanent revolution by
the UkraiUlen Peeple and a-permanent fight against Communist occupetion.V .
Handers Was aecnsed of working Conspiratorial:17,U the pl) 'camps to build up .
military formations : The''.4oMe-Souros-alleged4hat-LBander44$ersohnal-appeamed,-.---
to'be working for -American, English and even Preneh . ifitreLligenee seriices.V. 1 '
. Negotiations fora reunion of MN were' carried on' between November 1949, -
and Fetnnuury 1959 at the apartment A3f-Yaroalar ttetako in Mbuich with the

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5, Political affiliations (continued)

Bandera security officer, K. Kononenko acting for his chief. The break-
do4h of the negotiations was said to be Bandera's fear of losing his
dictatorial powers over his party42/
0UN-11. n429 under the jurisdiction of the OR314.1/
e. Ukrainian Resistance Army (UPA)
The Galician Ukrainians Originated the guerrilla forces which make
up the Benders. movement42/ UPi claimed to have had one :eitlion members
In 1943, but at the end of 1949, according to one source, its numbers had'
fallen to 150,00041/ In March 1950 its strength was estimated as about
twenty thousand men.6J
f. Ukrainian Supreme Libehttion Council (MVO' /44"-!. 42.4q
organized in November 1943 to unite all elements in the struggle for
tkrainian,independende, the UHVR claims jurisdiction over OR and the UPA,
which it claims to. representpolitically. :-Only the Banderi_factiP17" of CON
recognizes its 1P0ei P4434.1/ ugm acts as governing body for the Ukrainian
nationalist grouPs.:-.The -CoUnciI canitsted of General Taras'ChnprYinka, As
Commander-in4hitf of UPA1 Yaroslav Stetsko, responsible for Foreign Poll-
-tics and Propaganda; and.the Chairman., Bandera.§/ After Ghupryinkals'death
(ldarch.1950); Colonel V'f.syl Koval replaced him as commander of IIPA41/.
g. Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Natione (ABN)
ON was founded to combine the struggles of the various nationalities
withia. tha,USSR , in order to overthrow Bolshevism and to establish new
national states within the ethnic borders of each nationality. The aotivi--'
ties of. IPA are said to be . integrated closely . with the underground work of.
• ABN41/,41BN has a dual role: to support thelueirillararfare in the
7. Ukraine and tO - conduct Propaganda at a4. Its chairman is Stetako.61,
. ABU. excludes Russian emigres, and bia not included Polish membera.-
because of the territorial question. It has no Czechlmembers.§/
• . It has been rumored that Bandera's adminietratiTie organ would' move
to;England, where the British would give it financial support to' keep the
leaders "on Ice" for future amergethies.0/.
Uhion of Ukrainian Youth (SUM)
• Thia'orgaSitation is said to be Of prime importance for its support
of the Bandera movement. SUM's activities. are carried on under the camau.-'
flige of physical edUcation and'sPorte4 but hays as their function the
carrying on of Political education related to its political aspirations
for, future Ukraine. SUM ip repOrted to be pc. o. -US and anti-Soviet. It is
. , said to have gronPi in ev Ukrainian community, especially- in the Ukrain-
ian DP camps in . Germany. '
.souscrs;

I/ state, Br595, Berlin; 13 Hai 1949,'Resirid'ed

01k, S074745X Auguat1.950, .Secret/Contio143 Offioiale Only. .
'Army, SSU, "S4Semo, 7 opt,03e1046, Sec:rat/Control. ' • '
' CIA.; -00-Wi2373, . 1. Ingest . 1950y Confidential..

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 SEC 1T-CONTRON . S. OFFPALS ONLY
pANDERA, Steran indreyevich
. Sources (continued)
00-1315823, 17 May 1950, Secret/US 0fficia1a Only.
.State, O-129, Hamburg, 22 Mereb 1950, Secret.
• 21 CIA, SO-32153a, 24 January 1950, Secret/Control-DS Officials Only.
2/ A ir FOrce, IR-79-51, Wiesbaden, 7 May 1951, Confidential. •
• 2/ CIA, 00-B-11789, 13 January 1950, Confidential/US Officials Only.
12/ CIA /P9-447 6 5x 4 August 1950, Secret/Control-US Officials Only.
11/ CIA,-00-B-11050-49, 21 December 1949, Confidential/US Officials Only.
fil2/ CIA, 00-B47884, 14 February 1951, Confidential/US Officials Only.
U./ C/A, 0, (143-23299, 8 November 1950, Confidential/NS Officials Only.
.See also: Ital.-Gen. J.; 1. C. Fuller, *What the Kremlin Fears Most," Saturday
Freniwaggt, 27 October 1951, pp. 25, 115-117..

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 UWINIAN REoISTANGE AND ITS LEADER, Scotti3h League for European
Freedom, Edinburgh, Ray 1950.

BANDER*, Stepan

Bendera is the son of p Greed-Catholic priest, Andre Bander's.

He Was .born in the Western Ukraine in 1909. His endrgetic chi:ma-E'er

revealed itself in 'his earliest days; his intelligence wrs brilliant,'
and he qualified in, husbandry. Uuring his studies he always belonged •

to the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists,. and became the chief

nouthpi'aCe of the Western Ukrainians. Daring this peri&i and during

the occupation of his . country:by the Bolsheviks,, that is; in 1939; his
task was to organize the revolutionary movement in Ukraine against the
oppressors. After the occupation'of he Western Ukraine, Benders,.
.organized the Army of Resistance, add .cre p ted the opari force which
became, and still is, the 4U.P.14,.the Underground Army, with General:
.Taras Tchuprynka aa. its leader.
Mien; in.,1941, war breke out between Germany end the U.S.S.R.,
Benders, to thwiit the plans. of the Germans as well as the Bolsheviks,
proclaimed the,independence of the Ukraine. At the head'of .the Govern-
ment be pleCed his chief collaborator, Yereslev Stetiko;--who .4.President

of A.B.N..(he -Anti-Bolsnevik Block of Nations). This act surprised the

Germrns, exposing as it did their actual position in-the act, end; in
particular, Ukraine. The Germana liquidated the new Government . by force,

• eneSt'uldern, along with „5'tdtz3e and their colleagues, 'were sent . to the
. 6oncentratiOn camp at Orenienburg.: There they were,deteined till- 1944::
In July 1944 there was established, 'under" the . impetus' .givenby
Benders, "The Supreme . Council of Ukrainian Li geration" :
in Which he became one of : the'leading figuretv. The Council. of U,H.W.R. is
today the nucleus of the UkrainianLiber ption NeVement.
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while two of his three sisters were taken to Siberia. The -
third stator, vibe is hunchbacked, still remained in the Przersp.O.-StanislaJo
Tarnopol Area up to several months ago.
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tine'-bob In ottordan, Noland, while eond,ctingiurierground 7
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the 1Fadership of the movement within trrtrilgifiel" ' Men the Germane
entered Poland they made overtures to Sanders, but he fe6..2acd
join them, lie mas .then imprisoned, by the Someone who produced .
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war of the Germans who spansored him; consequently when the -boviets
drove the Germans hack to Ber,ine ltinik , disupPeared face the ..
horizon. In t • e Meantime, dandcra was freed from prisen and
corxnence6 hie underground act,ivities'immediatery, Sined1941,
'the year that his father was arrested end, sent to Northern ,•
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INTELLIGENCE OIEOEMINATION NUMBER A- 61154 - a

COUNTRY - Polend/USSR • • ORIGINAL RPT. L-569/f pt.

.51.12.19:CT Activitise of Sanders Early ,Xucust 1945

DATE OF INFO.
DATE OF RPT.23 ;ugnst 1945
DISTRIBUTED 21 3aptenbor 1945

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EVALUATION B-3 .ATTACHM ENTS

1. ,,coordiag to'rapatrieted persons, a virtaal ".reign of terror" exists

:Seat of the Curon line. A great number ot.tkraininns in this area
have orzcaimed themselves into ”partinan . banis, under the over-all
leadership Of Pendera. 'These beads seen to,enJoy in particular the
,terrorization of such Poles as remain in the neighborhood. According
one Pole who returned from ph4..s area, a Ipartiean" bond attacked
'his village ono night, burned it and killed Over fifty persona and
(about fivu'hundrall hoed oT cattle. Atoug Poles,. the mere mention-of
the nam.4.3Bandera" invariably bringsourses and imprecatiens: (pss
)i'ieid CommentAccording to information received from another reliable
inforaant, Sandorn in a youig and . vielcht student who same five- years ago
began opposing the elderly Lelnik OS louler of the 0.U.N. /brgani-
zation of Ukrainian Nationalintd. la 1441 he want to Lemberg and
proclaibad.ltiriselt hoed of an Ukrainian State, supposedly wf.th'the
approral oT the German General Staff. This caused the Germans greet
• embarresanent, and ho vas instructed to desist,from-furtherToliticel-
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1 :followers began a campaign of terrorimtion,rdirected mainly against
the followers of' -which resulted in his errant end confinaramt
•at Klein-Sachsonhausen. telnik was also arrested. Both were later
• -released, however, when the '.7ohrmacht andOettinisterium attempted to
build up a strong Ukraine. Band&a,eat be regarded es both anti-
Soviet and anti-Gernan. He appears to be continuing 'his campaign Of
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, S O U RC E SotsiaIisticheskly Vestnik,',..No 6,7, 1951.

STEPAN A. BANDERA AND THE 1941 "UKRAMAN STATE"

Petro Yarovyy-

On 30'June 1941, the'llkrainian fascist and Hitler's professional.spy,

Stepan A. Bandera (according to his German appellation, "Consul II"), pro- •
- claimed in L'vov, then occupied by the Germand, the resurrection of the
Ukrainian State in Western Ukrai' ' The same day a government was formed
Ipader the designation of the "State GovernmenILwith Yaroslav Stets!ko,
Bandera , s dePay, as premier.
S. A. Bandera appeared on the Ukrainian political horizon in June 1934,
when, as leader of the OUR (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) in West-
. ern Ukraine,' he gave:the order to kill the Polish Minister of the Interior,
ferackt. It 16 worthlicting that, although the perpetrator of the act, Grigor2I-
' Matseyko, had not been 'arrested, the Polish police had immediately in its
, possession sufficieni data to start a case 'against the leaders of the OUR' With:
Bandera at the head of the list. This indicates that the evidence and'deta
bearing on the revolutionary'ankterroristic activities of the OUN . had , not been
received from the murderer but from some other source. .
The courageous deportmett of the 23-yearold'ilandera during the trial in
WarsaW in 1935 gave him a halo of heroism 'and. made him the herb of the Ukrainian .
nationalists in the Western Ukraine and among the emigres.. Bandera 'behaved at
, the time like a fanatical revolutionary nationalist.'
However, many chnnGes took place during the intervening 16 years,

. In 19 1 Q, whet the Germans occupied Warsaw, Benders was released and

assumed a role of greater scope, no longer on an ablest scale, but as one of
, _the principal leaders of the. CON, which already existed'on . German territory. A.

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As is well known,. Col Andrey Mel`nik gn Ukrainian, Andriy Mel'nyk7 had

replaced Col E. Konovalets, chief leader of the GUM, who was killed by a
Bolshevik agent, Valyukh, in Rotterdam in 1938. Thus, in his struggle for
domination within the GUN, Bandera came face to face with Mel'nik from the start.
It was then that a new' facet of Bandera's personality was revealed -- not
that ofs. revolutionary, even of a fascist type, but a provocateur and Hitler
agent.
The German occupation forces atthetiMe needed agents and informers who
were conversant with conditions in Poland and. -could the Hitlerite in-
vaders. They could find no better men for the job than Bandera and his followers.
Bandera proceeded with great zeal to carry out Hitler's assignments, under
the guidance of a man who was at once one of the chief directors of Hitler's spy
system, a , prominent leader of-the GUM, and -- as became known only in 1945 -- an
important Soviet agent. His name was RikoYary. He was an extremely Odd indi-
vidual, completely unknown to non-Ukrainian readers, but he played a prominent
.rols in the Ukrainian national movement. I-shall have to write about,him
separately at some other time-
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• ' 'While working under the direction of Riko Yary and trying to strengthen
his position among the German invaders, Bandera,launched the campaign which
• was to makehim master of the GUN, To achieve this', he found it:necessary, first,
to compromise the old leadership beaded by Mel'nik. His first act was to prefer.
• charges against-the "Polish and Soviet spies" allegedly ensconced in the Main
' Administration of the GUN. Yar2a_1•_.avnnoy.skiy., accused of "Polish espionage"
on the basia of documents allegedly found in Polish archives by Riko Yary, was
the first victim of the campaign.' Next came Col M. Stsiborskiy and sqandron
• leader O. Senik-Gzibovskiy„ who were accused of having "connections . with SoViet
agents.. 7
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Bandera produced no proof of' any kind., What bad been published on the •
subTeae'died.'ObViously unsatisfactory, even to the layman. However, no one
demanded.proof. Bancl era's master, the Gestapo, on one hand,' and, the Soviet
agency in the person of Riko Yary, on the other; gave him a free hand. A simple
denunciation to the Gestapo was sufficient to cause persons Objectionable to
Banderato be arrested and liquidated at his order.. This Was the case, for in-
stance, with Turash,..oblast leader of the MN in Western Ukraine,' who had come
to occupied Poland to establish conneetions with the Main Administration of the

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At the same time. Bandera Worked feverishly to get hold, of the leadership
' of the Ukrainian nationalist underground organizations, created in 1939 for the
• struggle-against the Bolsheviks- during the Soviet occupation.
Bandera succeeded in all his enterprises. ,He,seized-the,.reins of the OUR
and became the acknowledged_favorite ' of the Hitlerite authorities, who, prepar-
. ing'for-a war in the Ukraine, were- sufficiently far-eighted to take into account .
• the,help that bandera'could render them -there,
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It was not Bandera's•espionage that was important tO Hitler's gauleiters.
•• They needed him as an agent, who would undermine the Ukrainian national.iibera-
• tion movement, or as an obedient Police dictator who could suppress the nation. '
alist movements among minorities of Western Ukraine. (Ai was of no use in the
--7-',---",Central and eastern °blasts because he was completely unknown there.)
The Hitlerites made no mistake in their calculations. Bendera played his •
part to perfection. And when he had done his duty, he and some of his assistants
were dispatched to . s. concentration damp. The Gestapo had its own candidates
the posts of gauleiters and governors of the Ukraine.

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Bandera stayed at the camp from summer 1941 to fall 1944, when he was freed
by the Germans and sent to spy for them during their retreat from the Ukraine.
(One could tell a good deal about this period of Bandera's activities.)

Let us return, however, to the "Ukrainien State," founded by Bandera on

30 June 1941. The proclamation of tere--'sse-Otikilace in an atmosphere of"
great solemnity, With Hitler's representatives participating. However, no solemn
speeches could hide the shameful fact, which will remain a black spot en the
history of the Ukrainian movement, that. the first act of the "State Covernment:'
headed_byeStets'ko vas an expeession of deepest gratitude to Hitler. Even the
Quisling, whose name has becoMe a synonym for traitor, did not go 'so
fat.

Since the support of the OUN alone, or, rather, of thoee:groups in the OUN.
which followed Benders, was not sufficient to invest the government of the
"Ukrainian State" with the necessary authority, the Benders falsifiers resorted
to the fabrication of two false documents; One of.these was produced through the
convocation in Krakow, on the eve of the war, of a special conference of prominent
Ukrainian leaders, andwas . given the grandiloquent title of "The Consolidation of
All Ukrainian Political Tendencies-and Common Action for the:Resurrection of the
- Ukrainian State." With Such a platform, it la no wonder that the Banderists were
able to obtain the necessary . Signatures, and the adopted declaration was pre-
sented to the nation-as an acknowledgment by all political parties of the right
of the Bandera group to direct the government of the future state-.

The second falsified document was obtained from the generally respected e,
Metropolitan, A.Ene.p.1.1Ltels.iy. He was shown the declaration and persuaded to
issue an appeal to, the people calling , for support of the "generally recognized
authorities." (Later, the Metropolitan became convinced-thathe had been
"deceived And retracted his appeal.)

What 'yea the Banderist "resurrected Ukraine" like at the time? It-, is hard
to find an adequate definition for the "mongrel state" areeted by Bandera and
Stets i kdunder the sonorous garde of the Ukrainian State. If one were to judge
this . brain child of Bandera even by totalitarian standards, one would find that
the elements of law and legality, which are present even in totalitarian states,
were absent there. However bad and cruel these laws are, they still contain
some elements of right and order. There was nothing of the kind in the "king-.
&hi" of .Stets'ko and Benders. 'Bloody chaos, utter lawlessness, and the•wildest
and most vicious excesses in the treatment of tbe Ukrainian population and, the
national minorities prevailed. Unbridled terrorism was used to force dissenters.
to submit to the "leaders." Thousands of people were killed without trial,
without investigation, art often, without any apparent cause.' .

. During the first days of Bandera's rule, terror was directed primnri4
against the organization headed by. A. Mel'nik. The greeter part of the leaders
Of this organization 'were killed, openly or secretly. The brothers Prishlyak.,
and pguay others were brutally murdered in Podgaytsyj the above-named Senik and',
Stsiborskiy, in Zhitomir,„The assassin was Stepan Enziye of LyUbeehev,
Ukrainian Communist, and. at the same time. one, of the leaders oPBandera's combat
detachments. Then came the-turn:of all Mandera'S opponents among the Ukrainian
People . in general. Finally, the caeional minorities in the Western Ukraine, ,the.
Poles and the Jews, were subjected to bloody persecutiot. It is ' difficult to •
estimate how many Poles were killed, but some data has been preserved concerning
the number of Jews whc.perfshed. Over 10,000 Jews were destroyed in'a.sirgle
"operation" at the border of the Geepathiae.Okeeine. The Bungerienr.4indart66---- '
drove these Jews out from the area which het beet occupied by Hungery with
Hitler's consent. At the border, they were received by "special" elementahf
the Bandere militia, Which drove the all of then
en route. Altogether, during the 5 weeks of its existence: the Bandera "state"
destroyed over 5,000 Ukrainians, 15,000 Jews, and several thousand Poles.

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The "Ukrainian State" of Stepan Bandera ended its short but ignominious
existence in August 1. 941, when it was announced in L'vov that Western Ukraine
had - beel-inporated as the "District of Galicia" in the "General Governorship"
(occupied Poland). And then a "new order," Hitler style, began to be introduced
in the Ukraine.

This is, in short, the story of Bander&'s "one-day holiday," which his
lowers, relying on people's forgetfu/neos, now try to present as a glorious and
heroic page in the hiStory of the Ukrainian liberation movement. In reality, it
would be beet, especially for the supporters of a free Ukraine ., to erase from
the history of their movement this infamous Hitlerite, fascist episode, which
brought nothing but shame and sorrow to the Ukraine.

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'From another source, it was reported that small secret fighting groups .
., appeared in Eastern Austria and tried to fight themselves through to
1 the American occupation zone in Upper Austria or Bavaria. These people
noel]. themselves .'llanderevci' and form a part of the Ukrainian Revolutionary
siArmy. Their operational territory comprises Ukrainian, Polish, and Slovak
areas, Their leader is Stefan Bandera, a fanatical revolutionary. He
had spent many years in Polish prisons And .was liberated onlY bor the
advance of the German Wehrmacht. Howe v er, ai the'GerEenedid"hot-keep-
/ their promises made to the Ukrainians, Bandera organized anti-German groups. .
On If order, he was arrested after a meeting with the German .
High Command and deported to Allenstein in East Prussia, where he was
kept until 'the end of the war. THE EXCHANGE PRESS reported that Stefan
Bandcra arrived these days under secret circumstances in Bavaria in
order to urge the Western Powers to support the UErainian revolutionaries.
In case the Western Powers would be ready to promise independence for
the Ukraine, Bandera's partisans would fight alongside the Weet against , ;--7.
the Soviets. 'During the interview, Benders was guarded by heavily . .
armedd bodyguards Bandera is 41 years old. 'Nobody knows his whereabouts 9
or movements ofof hid car. It is.possible that Bandera is by now in cl
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STEPAN EA1-41,EHA is the leader of the Handv.,•ra

p-oup. He resides at present in the American zone in Germany.
He is very artixre.
Subject says that he is the leader of an
Ukrainian undergrouhd movement, but this is held not to be
correct. Konavaritz, the earlier underground leader, was kill'ed
in Rotterdam en route to the United States. He left'a
—testament asicing that-Melnik-be-made his successor, because
the latter was a reasonable, moderate man. Source says that
the German Nazis liave Bandera money and instructions and made
him the leader. So there has since been a fight between Bandera
and Melnik.
• Subject is today chief of the Al3N, Anti-Connnunitt

Bloc of Nations, with branches in •Girrnany, England (London),

and the -United States. This is of course a:rightist grotto.
Bandera is about /15, and speaks' Germant. Polith, -
and Ukrainian. TAhen a student in the University at Lvov,'
he belonged to the Ukrainian underground organization which
killed Polish minister Perovalcy.:He fled to GerinetlY cometipie
during the years 1930-33.
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