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  10. Interview of Lieutenant General Vasilii Khristoforov, head of the Registration and Archives Directorate of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, in television documentary Tainy razvedki: Likvidatsiia Stepana Bandery (2012); Memorandum for the Record, April 22, 1976, Subject: Assassination of Stefan Bandera, 6; Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, “One Hell of a Gamble”: Khrushchev, Castro, Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958–1964 (London, 1998), 334.

  CHAPTER 33: DEFECTOR

  1. Joseph J. Trento, The Secret History of the CIA (New York, 2005), 185–188; John le Carré, “Introduction,” The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (New York, 2012); Kempe, Berlin, 1961, 354–358; Murphy et al., Battleground Berlin, 378–381.

  2. Memorandum for the Record, April 22, 1976, Subject: Assassination of Stefan Bandera, 2; Hood, Mole, 118.

  3. Memorandum for the Record, April 22, 1976, Subject: Assassination of Stefan Bandera, 2; Rossoliński-Liebe, Stepan Bandera, 351.

  4. Murphy et al., Battleground Berlin, 343–346; Michał Goleniewski personal file, Archives of the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (Warsaw), IPN BU 01911/97/1; Tennent H. Bagley, Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries and Deadly Games (New Haven, CT, 2007), 48–49; Leszek Pawlikowicz, Tajny front zimnej wojny: Uciekinierzy z polskich służb specjalnych, 1956–1964 (Warszaw, 2004), 217ff.

  5. Memorandum for Chief, S[oviet] R[ussia Division], August 24, 1961, 1–2, Stephen Bandera Name File, vol. 2, NARA, RG 263, E ZZ-18, B 6.

  6. Chief of Station, Germany, to Chief of S[oviet] R[ussia Division], EGOA 15811, October 10, 1961, Aerodynamic: Operations, vol. 22, f. 1, 1–2, NARA, RG 263, E ZZ-19, B 14; Memorandum for the Record, April 22, 1976, Subject: Assassination of Stefan Bandera, 5; Iurii Lukanov, “Vin nazyvav sebe ‘Mykola Sereda, ukraïnets’ z Sumshchyny,’” Hazeta po-ukraïns’ky, December 18, 2012; Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 256.

  7. Memorandum for the Record, April 22, 1976, Subject: Assassination of Stefan Bandera, 9.

  8. Ibid., 2; Rossoliński-Liebe, Stepan Bandera, 354–355.

  CHAPTER 34: INVESTIGATION

  1. Kempe, Berlin 1961, 405–407; John F. Kennedy, “Remarks on Signing Peace Corps Bill,” September 22, 1961, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKPOF-035–045.aspx.

  2. Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 252–254, photos following p. 695; Karl Anders, Mord auf Befehl (Tübingen, Germany, 1963), photos following p. 32.

  3. Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 178, 255; Memorandum for the Record, April 22, 1976, Subject: Assassination of Stefan Bandera, 2.

  4. Julia Lalande, “Building a Home Abroad”: A Comparative Study of Ukrainian Migration, Immigration Policy and Diaspora Formation in Canada and Germany After the Second World War, PhD diss., University of Hamburg (Düsseldorf, 2006), 347–352; Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 255–256.

  5. Memorandum for the Record, Subject: Meeting with AECASSOWARY 2 [Mykola Lebed], April 19, 1962, 1, Aerodynamic: Contact Reports, vol. 44, f. 2, NARA, RG 263, E ZZ-19, B 23; “Geheimdienste: Bart ab,” Der Spiegel, November 29, 1961.

  6. Anders, Murder to Order, 115–116.

  CHAPTER 35: PRESS CONFERENCE

  1. Who Actually Killed Ukrainian Nationalist Stepan Bandera: The Dirty Affairs of the Gehlen Secret Service (Toronto: Canadian Slav Committee, 1961), 2–3.

  2. Chief of S[oviet] B[loc] Division, Memorandum: Aerodynamic—KGB Operations Against Ukrainian Emigres, April 12, 1967. Aerodynamic: Operations, vol. 36, NARA, RG 263, E ZZ-19, B 20.

  3. Who Actually Killed Ukrainian Nationalist Stepan Bandera, 3–13; Pravda pro te, khto spravdi vbyv Stepana Banderu: Chorni dila helenivs’koï rozvidky (Toronto: Canadian Slavonic Committee, 1961), 5–22; Rossoliński-Liebe, Stepan Bandera, 356.

  4. “Spione,” Der Spiegel, June 27, 1962; Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 265–266; Norman J. W. Goda, “CIA Files Related to Heinz Felfe, SS Officer and KGB Spy,” Government Secrecy e-prints, www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/goda.pdf; Murphy et al., Battleground Berlin, 435–439; Evgenii Primakov et al., Ocherki istorii rossiiskoi vneshnei razvedki, 6 vols. (Moscow, 2002), 5:127; Chief of Base, Bonn, to Chief, E[astern] E[urope Division], EGMA27257, March 23, 1964, Subject: Protocol of Felfe Trial, 36–37, Heinz Felfe Name File, vol. 3, f. 2, NARA, RG 263, E ZZ-18, B 16; CIA Report, “KGB Exploitation of Heinz Felfe: Successful KGB Penetration of a Western Intelligence Service,” 120–122, NARA, RG 263, CIA Subject Files, Second Release, Box 1.

  5. Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 50–55.

  6. Memorandum for the Record, April 22, 1976, Subject: Assassination of Stefan Bandera, 9; Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 50–55; Osyp Verhun rozpovidaie (Kyiv, 1962); M. Maksymenko, M. Davydiak, and O. Verhun, Provokatory na Zakhodi prodovzhuiut’ diiaty (Kyiv, 1963); “Memo from Colleagues in the USSR,” Archives of the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (Warsaw), IPN BU 01355/196/J (1074/4/48), 39.

  7. V. Nikitchenko, “Vsem nachal’nikam upravlenii KGB pri SM USSSR,” November 27, 1961, Archives of the Security Service of Ukraine, Kyiv, fond 16, opys 1, no. 930, fol. 210; V. Nikitchenko “Vsem nachal’nikam upravlenii KGB pri SM USSSR,” February 14, 1962, Archives of the Security Service of Ukraine, Kyiv, fond 16, opys 1, no. 932, fols. 37–39.

  CHAPTER 36: HIGH POLITICS

  1. Abendpost, no. 268 (November 18–19, 1961). Cf. a Polish translation of the Abendpost article in the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (Warsaw), IPN BU 01355/196/J (1074/4/48), 13–19.

  2. “Geheimdienste: Bart ab”; “Germans Hold Russian: Ex-Soviet Agent Reported to Admit Bandera Killing,” New York Times, November 18, 1961; “Ex-Red Agent Admits Killing 2 Exile Chiefs,” Chicago Daily Tribune, November 18, 1961.

  3. Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 55–57, 62–63; Mlechin, Zheleznyi Shurik, chap. 5.

  4. “President Kennedy Delivers Major Policy Speech at UW on November 16, 1961,” HistoryLink, www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=968.

  5. “Geheimdienste: Bart ab”; John L. Steele, “Assassin Disarmed by Love.”

  6. Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 67–68; Charles H. Pullen, The Life and Times of Arthur Maloney: The Last of the Tribunes (La Vergne, TN, 1994).

  7. Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 82–83, 89; Denis Smith, Rogue Tory: The Life and Legend of John G. Diefenbaker (Toronto, 1997).

  8. “Stevenson Lashes at Russian Colonialism,” Ukrainian Weekly, December 2, 1961; Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 84; Joe Holley, “Lev E. Dobriansky: Professor and Foe of Communism, 89,” Washington Post, February 6, 2008; Lev E. Dobriansky papers, 8 boxes, Hoover Institution Archives.

  9. Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 68–72; “Soviet Agent Confesses Killing Bandera and Rebet as ‘Enemies of Soviet Regime,’” Ukrainian Weekly, November 28, 1961; “Yaroslav S. Stetsko Was Next on the KGB List,” Ukrainian Weekly, December 2, 1961; “Ukrainians Picket Soviet U.N. Mission in Protest over Murder of Bandera,” Ukrainian Weekly, December 9, 1961.

  CHAPTER 37: CONGRESSMAN

  1. Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 267.

  2. Memorial Addresses for Thomas Joseph Dodd, 92nd Cong., 2nd sess., 1972 (Washington, DC, 1972); Report of the Select Committee to Investigate Communist Aggression and the Forced Incorporation of the Baltic States into the U.S.S.R.: Third Interim Report of the Select Committee on Communist Aggression, House of Representatives, Eighty-Third Congress, Second Session, Under Authority of H. Res. 346 and H. Res. 438 (Washington, DC, 1972).

  3. Christopher Matthews, Kennedy & Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America (New York, 1997), 52–54.

  4. Lisa Phillips, A Renegade Union: International Organizing and Labor Radicalism (Champaign, IL, 2013), 105–106; 410–411; Matthews, Kennedy & Nixon, 46–50; James Srodes, Allen Dulles: Master of Spies (New York, 2000), 410–411; Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis
of the Self-Made Man (New York, 2002), 24–28.

  5. Investigation of Senator Thomas J. Dodd: Hearings of the Committee on Standards and Conduct. United States Senate. Eighty-Ninth Congress, Second Session, June 22, 23, 24 and 27, and July 19, 1966, Part 1: Relationship with Julius Klein (Washington, DC, 1966), 329–330; Jonathan H. L’Hommedieu, “Baltic Exiles and the U.S. Congress: Investigations and Legacies of the House Select Committee, 1953–1955,” Journal of American Ethnic History 31, no. 2 (Winter 2012): 41ff.; “Congressman Kersten, Friend of Ukrainians, Dies,” Ukrainian Weekly, November 11, 1972.

  6. Memo for W. C. Sullivan, in Russ Holmes Work File, Release of Certain FBI Documents to the Senate Select Committee, Mary Ferrrell Foundation.

  7. Memorial Addresses for Thomas Joseph Dodd; Report of the Select Committee to Investigate Communist Aggression and the Forced Incorporation of the Baltic States into the U.S.S.R.

  8. Investigation of Senator Thomas J. Dodd, 20–21.

  9. “The Attack on the Romanian Legation in Berne—February 1955,” Stancodrescu, November 7, 2008, http://stancodrescu.over-blog.com/article-25803233.html; Investigation of Senator Thomas J. Dodd, 318.

  10. John L. Steele, “Assassin Disarmed by Love,” Life, September 7, 1962, 70–72; Memo for W. C. Sullivan, in Russ Holmes Work File, Release of Certain FBI Documents to the Senate Select Committee, Mary Ferrrell Foundation; W. A. Branigan to W. C. Sullivan, January 14, 1964, in FBI Warren Commission Liaison File 62–109090, Mary Ferrell Foundation; Investigation of Senator Thomas J. Dodd, 321.

  11. Investigation of Senator Thomas J. Dodd, 21; Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 345, 603.

  CHAPTER 38: KARLSRUHE

  1. “Russians Ignore Protest by Allies—Guards at Wall Exchange Fire,” New York Times, October 9, 1962.

  2. “Police Guard ‘Spy’ on Poison Deaths Charge,” Evening News (London), October 8, 1962; Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 106.

  3. Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 106–107.

  4. Inside Dr. No Documentary (DVD) in Dr. No (Ultimate Edition, 2006); David Schoenbaum, Die Spiegel-Affäre: Ein Abgrund von Landesverrat (Berlin, 2002); David Manker Abshire, Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency: Seventy-Six Case Studies in Presidential Leadership (Westport, CT, 2001), 185.

  5. Arkadii Vaksberg, Toxic Politics: The Secret History of the Kremlin’s Poison Laboratory—from the Special Cabinet to the Death of Litvinenko (Santa Barbara, CA, 2011), 203; Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 107.

  6. Volodymyr Stakhiv, “Protses proty B. Stashyns’koho,” in Pro ukraïns’ku zovnishniu polityku, OUN ta politychni vbyvstva Kremlia (Hadiach, Ukraine, 2005), 298–299; Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 107–109.

  7. Borys Vitoshyns’kyi, “Vbyvnyk pro svoï zlochyny,” Shliakh peremohy, October 12, 1962.

  8. Stakhiv, “Protses proty B,” 299–300.

  9. Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, diagram of the courtroom with seating arrangements following p. 695; Stakhiv, “Protses proty,” 299–300; Author’s interviews with Andrii Rebet, Munich, July 1, 2012, and Anatol Kaminsky, July 27, 2012.

  10. Borys Vitoshyns’kyi, “Pershyi den’ protsesu,” Shliakh peremohy, October 10, 1962; Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 115, 120.

  11. Deacon and West, Spy!, 152; Liubov’ Khazan, “Pisatel’ i diplomat Sergei German: ‘Stepan Bandera pogib ot tsianistogo kaliia, . . .’” Bul’var’ Gordona, February 19, 2013; Koch, Der Fund, 107.

  CHAPTER 39: LOYALTY AND BETRAYAL

  1. “Heinrich Jagusch, deutscher Jurist; Bundesrichter (1951–1965); Dr. Jur.,” Munzinger Biographie, http://195.226.116.135/search/portrait/heinrich+jagusch/0/10106.html; Arthur J. Olson, “German Receives Five Years as a Spy,” New York Times, January 31, 1960; Allen W. Dulles, The Craft of Intelligence: America’s Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World (Guilford, CT, 2006), 108.

  2. Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 121–123, Anders, Murder to Order, 99–101.

  3. Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 124.

  4. Ibid., 124–134; Georgii Sannikov’s interview in the television documentary Tainy razvedki: Likvidatsiia Stepana Bandery (2012).

  5. Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 115–116.

  6. Adriana Ohorchak and Kateryna Shevchenko, Ukraïns’kyi rodovid (Lviv, 2001), 221; Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 472.

  7. Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 134; Dominique Auclères, Anastasia, qui êtes-vous? (Paris, 1962).

  8. Stepan Lenkavsky to Jaroslaw Padoch, July 16, 1962, Jaroslaw Padoch Archive, Correspondence, no. 238; Vedeneev and Shevchenko, “Priznalsia, zabiraite.”

  9. Vitoshyns’kyi, “Pershyi den’ protsesu.”

  10. Stepan Lenkavsky to Jaroslaw Padoch, May 17, 1962, Jaroslaw Padoch Archive, Correspondence, no. 238; Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 140.

  11. Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 144; Oleksandra Andreiko, “Narys pro istoriiu sela Pekulovychi,” http://xn—b1albgfsd8a2b7j.xn—j1amh; Iurii Lukanov, “Try liubovi Stepana Bandery: Stsenarii dokumental’noho televiziinoho fil’mu,” 1998, www.oocities.org/yuriylukanov/start_files/dorobok/dorobok01.htm.

  12. Vitoshyns’kyi, “Vbyvnyk pro svoï zlochyny”; Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 139–140.

  13. Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 140, 146.

  CHAPTER 40: FIRST MURDER

  1. Borys Vitoshyns’kyi, “Na slidakh svoiei zhertvy: Druhyi den’ protsesu proty Stashyns’koho,” Shliakh peremohy, October 12, 1962.

  2. Author’s interview with Andrii Rebet; Memorandum for the Record, Subject: Meeting with AECASSOWARY 2 [Mykola Lebed] and 29 [Fr. Mykhailo Korzhan], April 3, 1962, 1, Aerodynamic: Contact Reports, vol. 45, NARA, RG 263, E ZZ-19, B 23.

  3. Andrii Rebet, “Lev i Dariia Rebet: Moï bat’ky,” paper delivered on June 24, 1998, at the Ukrainian Free University, Munich, manuscript in author’s possession, 12–14.

  4. “Tsikavyi dokument,” Ukraïns’kyi samostiinyk: Spetsiial’nyi vypusk (Munich, 1962), 50–56; Author’s interview with Andrii Rebet.

  5. Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 154.

  6. Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 140, 146.

  7. Borys Vitoshyns’kyi, “Cholovik z Moskvy,” Shliakh peremohy, October 12, 1962; Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 163.

  8. “Tsikavyi document,” 50–56; P. Hai-Nyzhnyk, “Het’manych Danylo Skoropads’kyi (1904–1957): Do istoriï vstanovlennia starshynstva v Het’mans’komu Rodi ta spadkoiemstva v ukraïns’komu monarkhichnomu rukhovi,” Kyïvs’ka starovyna, no. 4 (2002): 110–125.

  9. Stakhiv, “Protses proty,” 311–312; Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 173.

  CHAPTER 41: BIG DAY

  1. Borys Vitoshyns’kyi, “Z nakazu TsK partiï Stashyns’kyi zamorduvav providnyka,” Shliakh peremohy, October 14, 1962; Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 181–182.

  2. Borys Vitoshyns’kyi, “Ia pidnis zbroiu i vystrilyv,” Shliakh peremohy, October 16, 1962; Borys Vitoshyns’kyi, “Shliakhy kryvavoï kar’iery,” Shliakh peremohy, October 21, 1962; Borys Vitoshyns’kyi, “Potvorne oblychchia Moskvy: Pidsumky pershykh dniv sudu proty Stashyns’koho,” Shliakh peremohy, October 21, 1962; Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 184–199.

  CHAPTER 42: DOUBT

  1. Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 95.

  2. Stakhiv, “Protses proty B,” 314–315.

  3. Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 174–180.

  4. Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 200–201, 251–260.

  5. Shliakh peremohy, October 10, 1962; Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 115–116.

  6. Vitoshyns’kyi, “Potvorne oblychchia Moskvy.”

  7. Stepan Lenkavsky to Jaroslaw Padoch, July 16, 1962, Jaroslaw Padoch Archive, Correspondence, no. 238.

  8. Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 240–244.

  9. Ibid., 239–240.

  10. Ibid., 267–270.r />
  11. Ibid., 228.

  12. Ibid., 199–200.

  CHAPTER 43: PROSECUTION

  1. Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 271; “Bohosluzhennia v Karlsruhe,” Shliakh peremohy, October 16, 1962.

  2. “Legal Arguments by Chief Public Prosecutor Dr. Kuhn,” in The Shelepin File: Planned and Executed Murders of Ukrainian Political Leaders (London, 1975), 33–42; Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 281–291; Investigation of Senator Thomas J. Dodd, 21.

  3. Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 240.

  4. Petro Kizko, “Stashyns’kyi—uosoblennia shpyhuns’koï systemy,” Shliakh peremohy, October 21, 1962; Vitoshyns’kyi, “Potvorne oblychchia Mosky”; Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 403–404; “Chomu Stashyns’kyi utik na Zakhid i pryznavsia do zlochyniv?” in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 617–620.

  5. Memorandum for the Record, April 22, 1976, Subject: Assassination of Stefan Bandera, 6.

  6. Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 291–297.

  7. Stepan Bandera, “Lesia Bandera (1947–2011): ‘Tatu, Ty ie symvolom dlia tsiloï kraïny . . . ,” Ukraïns’ka pravda, August 29, 2011.

  8. “Speech by Miss Natalia Bandera,” in The Shelepin File, 53–56; Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 305–307, 382–383.

  CHAPTER 44: DEVIL’S ADVOCATES

  1. Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 297–303.

  2. Ibid., 297–303; “Slovo pani mgr. Dariï Rebet,” Ukraïns’kyi samostiinyk (special issue, 1962): 28–29; Author’s interview with Andrii Rebet.

  3. “Mr. Kersten’s Plea at Stashynsky’s Trial,” in The Shelepin File, 15–20; Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 308–316; Investigation of Senator Thomas J. Dodd, 324; Legal Arguments by Attorney Dr. J. Padoch,” in The Shelepin File, 50–53.

  4. Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 316; Stakhiv, “Protses proty B,” 342.

  5. Stashinsky’s Trial Transcripts, in Moskovs’ki vbyvtsi, 316–326; Stakhiv, “Protses proty B,” 342; Dariia Rebet, “Vyna, diisnist’ i dotsil’nist’,” in Ukraïns’kyi samostiinyk (special issue, 1962): 29–32; Dariia Rebet, Na perekhrestiakh vyzvol’nykh zmahan’ (Hadiach, Ukraine, 2003), 57–60.

 

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