ORGANIZATION AND OPERATIONS OF UKRAINIAN NATIONALIST ORGANIZATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600030378-0
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 378
• Publication Date: January 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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AGENICY
INFORMATION REPORT
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DATE OF I
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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2. The t has not msirtaiwd rs*' frienPly contacts with the Gersae at aav
tim? Lis claim if contram'K b;; asxmLftiaae of mmy critics of GUN,
accord+ng to which it 4a,1owaic the snfg:,rt of t Le finstnpo, .srsss `,.lie
Bandera faction s or+g3;rally we' like by the pesos Ar~iy and p$zticu-
larly the Abrahrj the Germans first expressed intersft in discasifng the
war situation wick Melayk in 1939? In view of their refs al to discuss
Ukrainian aspirations for motional -pe33e~ce, Col Mral
shou'der t!.+ their ovaxtur.es. Un 5 A 418 Xelayk re~.e a cold
with Terse Bulbs, which led to the point support of the Ukraini
d an an I t
Army (UPA), which bean the military arm of the Ukrainian independence
movement and directed its activities against the Germ= and the Soviets
alike. Until the present time, the UPA has continued its military resis-
tance to the Soviets, and the political underground movexant Me ra,*-plsswnted
such efforts through lees overt non-military activities.
?w??-~y.~.
Col Andrew eels %"wal usaar the lssdmrship of
it the 3antinuation of an ormi1,sation of the sm ns>ss
founded in the niastsem-twenties by Col Nugeme Konovelats, who woe killed
in the Netherlsnds in 1938? It advocate t'e establislstrstt of a Ufrraialan
national stets through a national revolution.
there has existed a deep split in the 04Th between begimd t ~sention wbich y con-
tinued to accept the leadership of Col Masi. k and an off-.hoot cm-SaIdut4
which rsaognised Steps Dtndera as leader of what is its reltrred to
?s the Organisation of Ukrainian Rationalists?llwojutioasries (OW-M4). this
split was the result of pers+asl gad taoti"l differences. Col )(cola
SoiborWkv, (feu) Sang-"SX,biveky", and Yaroslav Laranav*kyj but nov fgiaally
- l Ks1nys, on the one side vere opposed to atepon Landers end Yaros3av ststskso
(or Stockw) on the other side. Moreover, Benders favored a Ukrsiaian national
revolution against the Bo10hevtku in 19A0 whereof Melaft advocated a policy
of writing until the inevitable collision between East and West would take
plc.. In spite of many attsnpts on the part of 00, no conciliation with
OUN-A has caau about since that bias,
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repro se..~tiou of the Ukraine at the San FranciscorConferaace, but protested
at Manuilokyis selection as the Ukrainian representative. In spite oP the
descending Iron Curtain, OUN-Helnyt has maintained steady contact with the
Ukrainian hoaoeland, both with the area which was a part of Poland until 1939
and with the Soviet Ukraine. A "referent" (staff specialist) for domsstLa
Qaeetions whose identity only Col Mel=7k is authorized to divulge to any
outsider is in charge of maintaining contact with the Uk~n?,ac through assil,
couriers, and certain additional channels which I co mot describe. Even
those trusted members of GUN who are in a position to co uaieate with
friends and relatives in the Ukraine have to clear such ratters with the
competent specialist. Courier service cannot be maintained in wintsrtise
because of the increased dangers of deteotioc of the couriers by Soviet
and Sat.1144
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US Army, to US Secretary of State, Edward R 8tettiuius. This
cable was sent on - May 41 sad expressed satisfaction at 2be se t
In January and February 1942, a number of Ukrainian underground leadera
including Rohacb, Mihailo, Teliha, and mazy others were arrested and
executed by the German occupation forces. In November 1942, new arrests
of underground leaders took place, and those arrested were moved to the
concentration camp in Sachsenhausen and a separate division of the Sachsen-
hausen camp at Braetz on the Oder. By January 1944, all major Ukrainian
underground leadnrn 'JAre e-.henava by.
to sponsor a united anti-Soviet drive, ~the Germans released these Ukrainian
underground leaders in October 19;1+. Col Melnyk moved to Berlin, wtere
German officials approached him to request his collaboration against the
Soviets. an official
statwmnt by the German Foreign Minister disclaiming any territorial interest
its the Ukraine. The German government sae still unwilling to tie its hands
in this respect, and Melnyk therefore left Berlin and moved to Bad FCissingen
(Bavaria), accompmnied by Dzytro Andreyeveky and Osyp Baydunyk.
Bad Kissingen was liberated by US troops on 7 A;:_ 45, One of Col
e security iorcea.
The latest co=ications from the heart of the Ukraine to reach OUN
respe ? ve y. In these -sports of conflittone in u.he Soviet Ukraine,
the writers claim that the population not only rind
sympathetically the
UPA and political underground moea?eat but e~xtrs&ad helyo to these snti-Soviet
nationalist organizations within the narrow limits of passibility. It has
to be admitted, JWwever, that these Organizations can no longer claim to
control any par` of the Ukraine as they did f-or a time in the ni.neteen-
forties.
6. In addition to Col Melnik end the specialist for domestic queetioue, the
following leaders of OUN des,orve mention. Dmytro Andreyeveky is the
specialist for foreign policy; Gen Mykola W.apusayaaeki :m specialist 1'0.
military matters; and Oiyp Boys'wsyk in syeciellnt for internal political
4uestione (other than r..atart with the homeland). The OLIN leaders are
also represented in the Ukrainian govermuent_in-exile, which functions
through the Vikonnly Organ (Executive Organ) and the Ukrainian National
Reds in Western Germany. Dm tro Andreyevsky is Vice Premier and Deputy
Foreign Minister, and Gag ,''y+kola Xipustyaaaki, Minister of War in the
Executive Organ; Osyp Boyduayk is Vice President of the Ukrainian National
Reds,
All major Ukrainian exile groups except the Union of Hetmanitee-Statists
(so), a monrrchiet group, were represented in the Ukrainian I;ationa;. Ra13
from its inception, in June 1948 until the OUN-R (Banderists) withdrew in
the spring of 1950. In view of the fact that the sovernment-in-exile has
no actual executive but only moral powers which stem largely from its
claim to represent all major political groups, no organization has been
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permitted to dominate the Executive Organ or the Reds. The principle of
consolidation on the basis or parity has characterized the two organs of
the goverumat-in-eile at all times. The getnonites have consistently
opposed its republican form, and the Otlg R has objected to its allegedly
inadequate emphasis upon revolutionsLy methods in achieving the ce
of the ;sraine. (Fau E yhorenhc. Mi iztnr of rn er o . a...'._ independence
Uv iin and a member of the ry-'- has
Ukrainian Hevolutionexq-Uamocratic Party, has
Party, concerned himself with the problem of bringing the 8M and OUR-A groups
into the exile govermaent. I doubt whether sufficient concessions, such
as awarding key posts to members of these organizations, Bill be offered
to these groups and therefore do ncs believe that they can be induced to
join a united Ukrainian front.
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