IT WAS A COOL ASSASSIN DODD PLANNED TO QUIZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200300015-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: June 24, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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oJAssassin
odd.Planned $o~uaz.
The following ep~?ode con-
cerning. Bogdan Nilcolaye-
vich Stashinsky, ulhose name
has come up in the Dodd
hearings, was provided by a
source who was on;the scene
at the time.
The confessed Russian assas-
sin whom Se.pator Thomas J.
Dodd (D?Conn.) planned to in-
terview In Germany in 1964
was a cool operator.
Bogdan Nikolayevich Stash-
inskiy, had turned up in West
Berlin on Saturday' night, Aug.
:12, 1961, a few hours before the
East Germans started' building
The Berlin Wall.. He had ap-
proached 'Berlin police and
insisted on being, referred to
Allied authorities.
Relaxing over a cognac' In
,an Apierican reception room;
.the slender blond with a thin
:face and waves of curls which
,gave him a' superficial re-
semblance to the Texas pianist
Van C l i b u r n calmly an-
nounced-that he had assas-
sinated General Stefan Ban-
del?a and Professor. Lev Rebet,
,] e'a d e r s oI the Ukrainian
,emigre. community in'Munichy
,on the orders of `the; >~Oiet
tions, the details of the
kill-
ings, disposition of the weap-
ons (cyanide poison pistols),
and ' his subequent welcome,
and reward by KGB' officials:
in Moscow.
He had decided to seek
asylum in West Berlin, he
said, because the death and
funeral of his child by a Ger-
man woman provided the op-
portunity. I-le had been given
time to attend the funeral
that afternoon, but skipped
the funeral and used the time
to turn himself in,
When Stashinskiy went" bn -
trial before the West German,
Supreme Court at Karlsruhe
in October ? 1962 for the mur-
ders of Rebet In 1957 -and,
Bandera in 1959, the widow of+
Rebet and.., the daughter of:
Bande'ra asked the court to
show leniency - because thy
considered that the killer him=
self was a "tool" and a ? "via
tim':; of the Soviet terror sys-
tem;which employed him.
He was sentenced to serve;
eight years. in prison. of
Senator Dodd's official" ip.;
terest in the case was re
lated1to' the'`Senator's position
secret police (KGB),' r:ron the-,.Senate Subcommittee
, He:;described his prepara;-.on, Internal.Security..
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