America’s longtime support for Ukrainian fascists
No
sooner had U.S. and Soviet troops shook hands and embraced at Torgau on
the River Elbe at the close of World War II in Germany, the forerunner
of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Office of Strategic
Services (OSS), was already lining up the support of Ukrainian allies
of Nazi Germany to target the Soviet government in Kiev. The details of
the establishment by the OSS of an anti-Soviet infrastructure that
included Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN) followers of Adolf Hitler ally
Stepan Bandera are contained in a formerly «SECRET CONTROL» document
from October 1946. The document was prepared by U.S. Army Intelligence
(G2) on behalf of the OSS. The following year, the OSS officially was
transformed into the CIA.
