In 1953, the CIA set up a radio station in #Ukraine to “provide a wedge that can be driven deeper between the Soviets and the Ukrainians and would exacerbate existing suspicions and antagonisms between the two ethnic factions.”
But wait! There’s more… 🧵
#Russia #UkraineWar
The #Ukraine black propaganda op was run by Mykola Lebed, a convicted Ukrainian #Nazi war criminal & murderer who was Stepan #Bandera’s right hand man.
Lebed was personally recruited into the CIA by Allen Dulles and brought to NYC to found “Prolog Research,” a CIA front.
How evil was Mykola Lebed?
Quite evil, as you can see. 👇🏽
The CIA thought he was just the man they were looking for to help them stir up civil war in the #USSR between #Russia and #Ukraine.
During #WWII, Mykola Lebed did leaflet propaganda campaigns encouraging the extermination of Jews in #Ukraine — when he wasn’t busy killing Jews, Poles and Russians himself.
Rather than being prosecuted at Nuremberg after the war, both Lebed and Bandera escaped— becoming spies for the 🇺🇸 CIA and 🇬🇧 MI6.
Bandera was killed by a KGB sniper in 1959. By that time, his buddy Lebed was comfortably ensconced in NYC, where he lived under CIA protection.
The full story was not known until CIA top secret documents were released more than 60 years later, long after Lebed’s death.
You can read more in “Hitler’s Shadow,” a free e-book published in 2010 by the US National Archives.
Link to the free e-book is here.
The chapter on CIA operations in Ukraine from the 1940’s-80’s starts on page 81.
archives.gov/files/iwg/repo…
Another thread about how Allen Dulles fell in love with #Nazi war criminal Mykola Lebed and snuck him into the USA — past immigration laws barring his entry — under the protection of the CIA.
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