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QRDYNAMIC/QRPLUMB (formerly AEBEEHIVE) (1970-91) superceded
Project AERODYNAMIC and supported the Ukrainian émigré organization ZP /
UHVR (Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council) with a New York publishing arm
called Prolog Research Corporation (QRTENURE, AETENURE) and a Munich
Office, Ukrainian Society for Foreign Studies (QRTERRACE, AETERRACE),
publisher of the monthly journal Suchasnist. CIA terminated QRPLUMB after
the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1991 and provided funds to enable Prolog to
transition to a privately-funded company. In 1992, Prolog's monthly Ukrainian
journal Suchasnist (Contemporary Times) was successfully transitioned to a
publishing company in Kiev, Ukraine and thereafter was published as a
collaborative effort between Prolog and a Ukrainian group in Kiev. Ivan
Hrinioch, Mykola Lebed, Yury Lopatinsky, Lyubomir Ortinskiy associated with
Project.
>https://archive.org/details/QRPLUMB_CIA/QRPLUMB%20%20%20VOL.%201_0001/mode/2up
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From the Secret Pages of History
Origins of the CIA Clandestine Radio Station Nova Ukraina, 1955-1959 (I) In 1948, the CIA’s Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) selected the émigré organization Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (
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Origins of the CIA Clandestine Radio Station Nova Ukraina, 1955-1959 (I)
In 1948, the CIA’s Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) selected the émigré organization Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (ZP/UHVR) as the “most reliable, best organized and operationally most experienced group for use in exploiting anti-Communist activity of the Ukrainian resistance group then active in Ukraine.”
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For the next five years, the CIA and ZP/UHVR conducted extensive joint foreign intelligence operations using the cryptonyms AEACRE and CARTEL and the political and psychological warfare operation AERODYNAMIC: propaganda leaflets and materials were smuggled into Ukraine or dropped by balloons. The CIA infiltrated agents into Ukraine, but most were killed or captured by the Soviet forces.
Then there was Project PBCRUET, on June 17, 1950. The objectives of this project were: “The exploitation and expansion of the Ukrainian resistance movement. To establish a “black” radio transmitter outside (and possibly eventually inside) the USSR for broadcasts to Ukraine.” The immediate objective of PBCRUET was:
To provide the ZPUHVR with sufficient funds, printing presses, and printing paper to assist this organization in carrying on psychological warfare activities directed against the Soviet regime and the Soviet forces of occupation. (Such operations, for instance, would include publication of a Ukrainian newspaper and leaflets, with overt distribution outside Ukraine and covert within.)
The CIA approval request, dated April 30, 1953, 'Justification for S.R. (Soviet Russia) Division of Athens Radio Facilities for Clandestine Broadcasting to the USSR,' listed the following as reasons for creating a new radio station:
There are no clandestine psychological warfare assets presently available through which we can reach the audience in these strategic areas. The people in these areas will be receptive targets for black broadcasts. Anti-Soviet nationalism is a potent force in both regions and can be exploited. It was precisely in theme areas that anti-Soviet resistance forces arose during World War II. The population has suffered since the end of the war from the KGB-MVD campaign to eradicate the remnants of these forces. Mass deportations have occurred in these areas since the war and have added to the hatred of the Soviet regime.
The same memorandum listed the aim of the “black” radio broadcasts:
[S]timulate and intensify discontent and disaffection to the Soviet regime and provide the target audiences with hope of ultimate liberation. This will be accomplished through broadcasts in the native language of the target audience, based on factual events and national and cultural history. These broadcasts will stimulate national consciousness among the minority groups addressed and will urge them to maintain pride in the individuality of their various national cultures. Concurrently the proposed broadcasts will encourage passive resistance, warning against premature uprisings but urging organized passive resistance, which can develop into something more active when conditions permit.
The objectives of the clandestine radio project with the cryptonym RANTER were listed in a July 21, 1953 project outline:
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The objective of this project is to utilize the broadcast time available on the KUBARK (CIA) radio installation PYREX at Athens, Greece, for the broadcast of a series of programs to be directed to:
Soviet officialdom,
Soviet military forces stationed in the Ukraine,
The Indigenous civilian population of the Ukraine,
Underground movement,
Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
The tasks of the project were to:
Furnish evidence of outside sympathy and understanding for the Ukrainian peoples.
Intensify anti-regime disaffection by encouraging resentment, bitterness, and distrust of the Soviet regime and its personalities.
Maintain national consciousness among the Ukrainians and urge them to maintain pride in the individuality and heritage of their culture.
Create dissatisfaction among Ukrainian military personnel within the Soviet armed forces stationed in Ukraine.
Create and intensify dissatisfaction among the Ukrainian civil authorities to the Soviet regime. The submitting division gave the following why the black broadcasts were necessary: This project is based on the need to make a more significant propaganda impact on this strategic target audience. Currently, the only PBPRIME (the United States, i.e., Voice of America) and KUBARK (CIA) propaganda efforts directed to the target area consist of Voice of America broadcasts and the Radio Liberation effort to the Kyiv area in the Russian language.
The presentation of clandestine broadcasts, specifically tailored to the target audience’s needs delivered on a close and friendly basis, will augment the existing inadequate PBPRIME and KUBARK efforts.
The July 1953 project outline also listed the method of preparing the broadcasts:
It is proposed that the S.R. Division be authorized to plan a psychological warfare campaign to be implemented initially over the PYREX radio station located in Athens, Greece.
It is proposed that programs in the Ukrainian language be produced and recorded on magnetic tape in New York and flown to Athens for broadcast by personnel attached to PYREX. It is realized that programming from this distance is not as efficient and timely as it would be if located nearer the transmitter. However, this is the only means where immediate advantage can be taken of the PYREX facility. This project’s program activities will be transferred accordingly when future operation conditions permit the programming to be prepared closer to the transmitter site. At first three tapes a week for fifteen minutes each broadcast time will be prepared. With the increase in script output and availability of air time, the broadcasts can be expanded.
Scripts and tapes were to be prepared by a CIA covert operation in New York City called Prolog Research and Publishing Association, Inc (CIA Cryptonyms QRTENURE and AETENURE) for:
Supplying the CIA with political, economic, biographic, and sociological information on the Ukrainian SSR and the Communist leadership.
Furnishing plans for Headquarters utilization in the fulfillment of the U.S. Intelligence and Psychological warfare missions.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/10990
During the fiscal year 1954,the clandestine radio operation had been approved as a sup-project (AERANTER) of Project AERODYNAMIC and necessitated separate funding and CIA administration. It had the primary purpose of furthering “the PP efforts by inauguration of black radio transmissions directed at the Ukrainian SSR.” It would “Share transmitter time with similar type broadcasts presently made from the Athens base station.”
Subproject RANTER had the following advantages:
It is possible to utilize the facilities of an established installation.
It will 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.
A psychological climate can be fostered, which will be more favorable to the conduct of S.R. operations in Soviet Ukraine. Soviet reaction to the broadcasts may indicate specific areas of vulnerability or sensitivity not previously recognized.
The project had the following requirements:
The establishment in New York City and or other locations in the United States as may be necessary, of facilities for writing and producing a series of radio programs.
Procurement of equipment for recording these programs on magnetic tape. This tape will be pouched and flown to Athens for reproduction.
The augmentation of a Ukrainian study group panel in New York.
The Study Group panel was supervised by one staff employee who was experienced in psychological warfare activities. It had the following duties:
Write or assemble, record, and edit material that will be broadcast am/or held in reserve as a backlog for future broadcasts.
Act as translators, researchers, writers, editors, and announcers.
Collect and collate background and source materials in the form of overtly published books and periodicals and unclassified government information.
Sterilize by rewriting and reattributing classified material for incorporation into the programs.
Mykola Lebed, President of Prolog and CIA Principal Agent, (CIA cryptonym AECASSOWARY-2) sent a “Ukrainian Broadcasting Policy Paper” in December 1954 that apparently for the first time mentioned the name “Nova Ukraina” (New Ukraine)for the proposed radio station. An officer of the SR PP Division commented on Lebed’s paper on January 15, 1954, with these comments:
The program is Ukrainian, replete with national symbols and allusions. We especially like the idea of brief features dealing with the gnomic sayings of classical authors well-known in Ukraine and assume that the writer intends to select phrases with political implications. Because of the fact of jamming, a scheme dividing the fifteen-minute program into brief and self-sufficient sections is sound. There would be no point in building the program around long-involved themes, the issue of which would be evident only at the end, just as the jammer might be zeroing in. Brief and self-sufficient items would take advantage of gaps in the jamming and fading of the jamming signals.
The undersigned sees no reason why “New Ukraine”
is not appropriate. It is submitted that we should take maximum advantage of the symbolic impact embodied in a voice that presumably speaks from the Ukraine and in the name and interest of the Ukrainian people themselves by identifying the station as frequently as possible, provided that it is consistent with jamming evasion techniques.
(To be continued)
Which Ukrainian Political Formation Was Supported by CIA During Cold War
In an August 1971 Covert Action Memorandum, the CIA reviewed the status of the Ukrainian diaspora with a view to identifying which political movement it should support - Here is the result.
by Richard Cummings | Aug. 14, 2023, 3:55 pm
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A rare photo of two of the heads of the Prolog Corporation by a bust of the Commander in Chief of the UPA, Roman Shukhevych: Mykola Lebed (l.) and Myroslav Prokop (r.).
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[Editor’s Note] The Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (UHVR) was formed in July 1944 in war-torn Ukraine uniting the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and other Ukrainian patriots resisting the Nazis and Soviets. After a split in exile in the late 1940s within the OUN, the more liberal wing known as the “Dviykari” split from the followers of Stepan Bandera and retained the Extern Representation (ZP) of the UHVR. It drew support from many emigre Ukrainian intellectuals and was linked with the CIA-backed Prolog Corporation, based in New York, which published the influential pan-ideological magazine “Suchasnist.”]
In 1948, the CIA’s Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) selected the émigré organization Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (ZP/UHVR) as the “most reliable, best organized and operationally most experienced group for use in exploiting anti-Communist activity of the Ukrainian resistance group then active in Ukraine.” The CIA used various cryptonyms for its projects using ZP/UHVR, including QRDYNAMIC.
Below are excerpts from an August 1971 the CIA’s Covert Action division: “Memorandum for the Record.”
“SUBJECT: CIA Support of ZP/UHVR (Foreign Representation, Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council)
“During the 1971 (CIA) headquarters review of Project QRDYNAMIC, which supports the ZP/UHVR, the logical question was raised whether the CIA is in fact supporting the "right group" of Ukrainian emigres in its efforts to encourage dissidence in Soviet Ukraine. The undersigned officer has attempted to examine the present status of the world Ukrainian emigre community, with the aid of QRDYNAMIC principal agents, in order to reach a conclusion in this respect.
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>Which Ukrainian Political Formation Was Supported by CIA During Cold War
“The political spectrum of the profusion of Ukrainian emigre political parties in the period following World War II is broad. The Ukrainian, for historical reasons, is a political animal and a compulsive organizer with very definite and vocal political views. His arch enemy is, as it has been for centuries, Russia, whether Tsarist or Soviet. The Ukrainian emigration is nationalistic and distinctive because it has traditionally maintained close contact with the homeland. The post-war Ukrainian emigration represented a virtual government in exile whose aim was to liberate Ukraine from Russian domination and establish an independent Ukrainian state. At present, most of the former influential military and civilian emigre leaders are dead or inactively retired. Some of the numerous political parties have become little more than social groups whose members nostalgically recall more vigorous and active days. The emigres also have many social, civic, and fraternal organizations which are of no interest
to us.
“The ZP/UHVR, in common with all emigre groups, had its share of internal strife in the 1940s and 1950s, but has stabilized remarkably since that time. From the days when it was an elite political advisory body to the Ukrainian underground movement fighting first the German Wehrmacht, and later the Soviet Army, its leaders have developed a political maturity that distinguishes it from other emigre political groups. Despite its title of "Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council" the officers of the ZP/UHVR realistically have no illusions about promoting an internal revolt which could only result in senseless slaughter and extreme repression.
“Although supporting nationalist aims, they do so by promoting political liberalization and encouraging the cultural independence of Ukraine through free literary expression in Ukrainian, a highly developed Slavic language of which they are fiercely proud. The Soviets give lip service to the development of national languages such as Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Lithuanian, and Uzbek, but information from ZP/UHVR contacts inside Ukraine, and confirmed in part by other sources, indicates that in actual practice the Soviets are discouraging the use and spread of non-Russian languages. This fact challenges the ZP/UHVR to exfiltrate self-published dissident Ukrainian samvydav (Russian samizdat)
“It seems clear that if the CIA is interested in continued support of a political group that is energetically fighting Soviet repression of national minorities in the Soviet Union, the ZP/UHVR is our most effective vehicle.
“This serious and dedicated group of intellectuals has shown its appreciation for CIA support over the past twenty years by rendering the type of cooperation that has contributed
to our covert action as well as a positive intelligence mission against the Soviet Union.”
The CIA would continue its operational activities with ZP/UHVR until it terminated the project on 30 September 1990.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/20541
Part 9
The Ukrainian Canadian Congress and its Fascist Roots
Since the war, the dominant voices of obfuscation and denial regarding the well-documented history of Nazi-Ukrainian collaboration have been closely affiliated with, and often led by, an organisation called the Ukrainian Canadian Congress.[i] Its creation in 1940 was actually facilitated by the Liberal government. Their explicit goal in orchestrating the creation of this umbrella organisation was to rally all anticommunist Ukrainians into one body in order to squash the then-powerful influence of leftwing Ukrainians whose forebears had come to Canada during earlier waves of migration. We should not forget that communism was illegal at that time and was officially targeted for repression in Canada throughout most of the 20th century.
After WWII, despite opposition from the Canadian Jewish Congress and progressive Ukrainian socialists and communists, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) supported the Liberal government in welcoming thousands of Ukrainian veterans who had volunteered to support the Nazi cause. The UCC and its "strictly anti-Communistic" views were "very much strengthened by the new mass immigration (1945-1951), when more than 35,000 Ukrainian Displaced Persons arrived from Europe."[ii] These militantly patriotic Ukrainians ‑ like Michael Chomiak and his family ‑ swelled the ranks of existing Canadian émigré groups. They also formed veterans' associations, were assisted by the Canadian government in founding and sustaining ultrarightwing media platforms, and took leadership positions in social, religious and political organisations that still comprise the backbone of the UCC.
Over the decades, the UCC benefited from the dedicated activism of Ukrainian patriots like Michael Chomiak and his granddaughter Chrystia Freeland. Chomiak was involved in a variety of ultranationalist groups linked to the UCC. In the biographical notes compiled by the Alberta Archives, Chomiak is described as having "served on the boards of many Ukrainian organizations." His personal files, now housed in those archives, include materials on the UCC, as well as numerous of its member groups.[iii]
However, not listed in the archive's biography of Chomiak was any reference to his role as a highly-respected figure among various Ukrainian WWII veterans' associations in Edmonton including the Waffen SS Galicia.[iv] Until just last summer, this association of Nazi SS soldiers was openly listed on the UCC website as one of its national member organisations.[v] The Ukrainian SS is still given a prominent place of honour at some UCC events. For example, at UCC Edmonton's annual commemoration of the Holodomor in 2016, a Ukrainian WWII veteran stood behind the speaker's podium holding the infamous Waffen SS flag.[vi]
https://coat.ncf.ca/research/Chomiak-Freeland/C-F_9.htm
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Declassified Documents Reveal US Contribution Behind Growth of Nazism in Ukraine
January 14, 2023
Torchlight procession commemorating the 106th anniversary of birth of Ukrainian Nazi leader Stepan Bandera, Kiev, January 1, 2015. Photo: All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom"/File photo.
Torchlight procession commemorating the 106th anniversary of birth of Ukrainian Nazi leader Stepan Bandera, Kiev, January 1, 2015. Photo: All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom"/File photo.
Declassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) provide a lot of information on how the United States has contributed to the growth of Nazism in Ukraine.
The documents outline details of Operation Belladonna, the US program behind the historical development of Nazism in Ukraine. One of these documents expose that the United States had already made contact with Ukrainian nationalists who were keen to ally with the US in its fight against the Soviet Union.
Some of the most interesting details on the involvement of the United States in the creation of Nazi groups in Ukraine are listed below:
The US influenced the development of the Supreme Liberation Council of Ukraine (UHVR). The factions of Ukrainian Nazi leaders Stepan Bandera and Andrij Melnyk were part of this council.
The CIA expanded its operations in Ukraine through the AERODYNAMIC Project, which operated during 1949-1970, before being reclassified under Project QRDYNAMIC in 1970 and later PDDYNAMIC in 1974, and finally QRDYNAMIC/QRPLUMB (formerly AEBEEHIVE) as it operated until 1991. Its aim was to create “nationalist flare-ups” in widely scattered areas of the Soviet Union, particularly in Ukraine.
The CIA successfully established a counterintelligence network with the Ukrainian underground Nazis in the 1950s.
Radio was used to maintain communication among various insurgent groups. The objective was to foster “a national consciousness” and “encourage pride in the heritage and individuality of their culture.”
Ways were sought to create dissatisfaction amongst Ukrainian military personnel against the Soviet Union.
For this reason, the frequency of glorification of Ukrainian Nazism through its historical leaders such as Stepan Bandera is evident.
Without a doubt, these projects define half a century of US support for Ukrainian Nazism. The current war in Ukraine would not have been possible if the US had not backed extreme right groups in the former Soviet Republic
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>Declassified Documents Reveal US Contribution Behind Growth of Nazism in Ukraine
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CIA: Undermining and Nazifying Ukraine Since 1953
by Wayne Madsen
The recent declassification of over 3800 documents by the Central Intelligence Agency provides detailed proof that since 1953 the CIA operated two major programs intent on not only destabilizing Ukraine but Nazifying it with followers of the World War II Ukrainian Nazi leader Stepan Bandera.
Voltaire Network | 14 January 2016
The CIA programs spanned some four decades. Starting as a paramilitary operation that provided funding and equipment for such anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance groups as the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (UHVR); its affiliates, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), all Nazi Banderists. The CIA also provided support to a relatively anti-Bandera faction of the UHVR, the ZP-UHVR, a foreign-based virtual branch of the CIA and British MI-6 intelligence services. The early CIA operation to destabilize Ukraine, using exile Ukrainian agents in the West who were infiltrated into Soviet Ukraine, wascodenamed Project AERODYNAMIC.
A formerly TOP SECRET CIA document dated July 13, 1953, provides a descriptionof AERODYNAMIC: «The purpose of Project AERODYNAMIC is to provide for the exploitation and expansion of the anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance for cold war and hot war purposes. Such groups as the Ukrainian Supreme Council of Liberation (UHVR) and its Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN), the Foreign Representation of the Ukrainian Supreme Council of Liberation (ZPUHVR) in Western Europe and the United States, and other organizations such as the OUN/B will be utilized». The CIA admitted in a 1970 formerly SECRET document that it had been in contact with the ZPUHVR since 1950.
The OUN-B was the Bandera faction of the OUN and its neo-Nazi sympathizers are today found embedded in the Ukrainian national government in Kiev and in regional and municipal governments throughout the country.
AERODYNAMIC placed field agents inside Soviet Ukraine who, in turn, established contact with Ukrainian Resistance Movement, particularly SB (intelligence service) agents of the OUN who were already operating inside Ukraine. The CIA arranged for airdrops of communications equipment and other supplies, presumably including arms and ammunition, to the «secret» CIA army in Ukraine. Most of the CIA’s Ukrainian agents received training in West Germany from the US Army’s Foreign Intelligence Political and Psychological (FI-PP) branch. Communications between the CIA agents in Ukraine and their Western handlers were conducted by two-way walkie-talkie (WT), shortwave via international postal channels, and clandestine airborne and overland couriers.
Agents airdropped into Ukraine carried a kit that contained, among other items, a pen gun with tear gas, an arctic sleeping bag, a camp axe, a trenching tool, a pocket knife, a chocolate wafer, a Minox camera and a 35 mm Leica camera, film, a Soviet toiletry kit, a Soviet cap and jacket, a .22 caliber pistol and bullets, and rubber «contraceptives» for ‘waterproofing film’. Other agents were issued radio sets, hand generators, nickel-cadmium batteries, and homing beacons.
An affiliated project under AERODYNAMIC wascodenamed CAPACHO.
CIA documents show that AERODYNAMIC continued in operation through the Richard Nixon administration into 1970.
>CIA: Undermining and Nazifying Ukraine Since 1953
The program took on more of a psychological warfare operation veneer than a real-life facsimile of a John Le Carré «behind the Iron Curtain» spy novel. The CIA set up a propaganda company in Manhattan that catered to printing and publishing anti-Soviet ZPUHVR literature that would be smuggled into Ukraine. The new battleground would not be swampy retreats near Odessa and cold deserted warehouses in Kiev but at the center of the world of publishing and the broadcast media.
TheCIA front company was Prolog Research and Publishing Associates, Inc., which later became known simply as Prolog. The CIA codename for Prologwas AETENURE.The group published the Ukrainian language «Prolog» magazine. The CIA referred to Prolog as a «non-profit, tax exempt cover company for the ZP/UHVR’s activities». The «legal entity» used by the CIA to fund Prolog remains classified information. However, the SECRET CIA document does state that the funds for Prolog were passed to the New York office «via Denver and Los Angeles and receipts are furnished Prolog showing fund origin to backstop questioning by New York fiscal authorities».
As for the Munich office of Prolog, the CIA document states that funding for it comes from an account separate from that of Prolog in New York from a cooperating bank, which also remains classified. In 1967, the CIA merged the activities of Prolog Munich and the Munich office of the Ukrainian exiled nationalist «Suchasnist» journal. The Munich office also supported the «Ukrainische Gesellschaft fur Auslandstudien». The CIA documents also indicate that US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents may have interfered with AERODYNAMIC agents in New York. A 1967 CIA directive advised all ZPUHVR agents in the United States to either report their contacts with United Nations mission diplomats and UN employees from the USSR and the Ukrainian SSR to the FBI or their own CIA project case officer. CIA agents in charge of AERODYNAMIC in New York and Munich were codenamed AECASSOWARY agents. Apparently not all that taken with the brevity of MI-6’s famed agent «007», one CIA agent in Munich wascodenamed AECASSOWARY/6and the senior agent in New York was AECASSOWARY/2.
AECASSOWARY agents took part in and ran other AERODYNAMIC teams that infiltrated the Vienna World Youth Conference in 1959. The Vienna infiltration operation, where contact with made with young Ukrainians, wascodenamed LCOUTBOUND by the CIA.
In 1968, the CIA ordered Prolog Research and Publishing Associates, Inc. terminated and replaced by Prolog Research Corporation, «a profit-making, commercial enterprise ostensibly serving contracts for unspecified users as private individuals and institutions».
The shakeup of Prolog was reported by the CIA to have arisen from operation MHDOWEL. There is not much known about MHDOWEL other than it involved the blowing of the CIA cover of a non-profit foundation. The following is from a memo to file, dated January 31, 1969, from CIA assistant general counsel John Greany, «Concerns a meeting of Greaney, counsel Lawrence Houston and Rocca about a ‘confrontation’ with NY FBI office on January 17, 1969. They discussed two individuals whose names were redacted. One was said to be a staff agent of the CIA since 8/28/61 who had been assigned in 1964 to write a monograph, which had been funded by a grant from a foundation whose cover was blown in MHDOWEL (I suspect that is code for US Press). One of the individuals [name redacted] had been requested for use with Project DTPILLAR in November 1953 to Feb. 1955 and later in March 1964 for WUBRINY. When the Domestic Operations Division advised Security that this person would not be used in WUBRINY, Rocca commented that ‘there are some rather ominous allegations against members of the firm of [redacted],’ indicating one member of that firm was a ‘card-carrying member of the Communist Party.’ The memo went on to say that Rocca was investigating the use of the individual in Project DTPILLAR concerning whether that person had mentioned activities in Geneva in March 1966 in connection with Herbert Itkin». Raymond Rocca was the deputy chief of the CIA’s Counterintelligence Division. Itkin was an undercover agent for the FBI and CIA who allegedly infiltrated the Mafia and was given a new identity in California as «Herbert Atkin» in 1972.
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>CIA: Undermining and Nazifying Ukraine Since 1953
The CIA programs spanned some four decades. Starting as a paramilitary operation that provided funding and equipment for such anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance groups as the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (UHVR); its affiliates, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), all Nazi Banderists. The CIA also provided support to a relatively anti-Bandera faction of the UHVR, the ZP-UHVR, a foreign-based virtual branch of the CIA and British MI-6 intelligence services. The early CIA operation to destabilize Ukraine, using exile Ukrainian agents in the West who were infiltrated into Soviet Ukraine, was codenamed Project AERODYNAMIC.
A formerly TOP SECRET CIA document dated July 13, 1953, provides a description of AERODYNAMIC: «The purpose of Project AERODYNAMIC is to provide for the exploitation and expansion of the anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance for cold war and hot war purposes. Such groups as the Ukrainian Supreme Council of Liberation (UHVR) and its Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN), the Foreign Representation of the Ukrainian Supreme Council of Liberation (ZPUHVR) in Western Europe and the United States, and other organizations such as the OUN/B will be utilized». The CIA admitted in a 1970 formerly SECRET document that it had been in contact with the ZPUHVR since 1950.
The OUN-B was the Bandera faction of the OUN and its neo-Nazi sympathizers are today found embedded in the Ukrainian national government in Kiev and in regional and municipal governments throughout the country.
AERODYNAMIC placed field agents inside Soviet Ukraine who, in turn, established contact with Ukrainian Resistance Movement, particularly SB (intelligence service) agents of the OUN who were already operating inside Ukraine. The CIA arranged for airdrops of communications equipment and other supplies, presumably including arms and ammunition, to the «secret» CIA army in Ukraine. Most of the CIA’s Ukrainian agents received training in West Germany from the US Army’s Foreign Intelligence Political and Psychological (FI-PP) branch. Communications between the CIA agents in Ukraine and their Western handlers were conducted by two-way walkie-talkie (WT), shortwave via international postal channels, and clandestine airborne and overland couriers.
Agents airdropped into Ukraine carried a kit that contained, among other items, a pen gun with tear gas, an arctic sleeping bag, a camp axe, a trenching tool, a pocket knife, a chocolate wafer, a Minox camera and a 35 mm Leica camera, film, a Soviet toiletry kit, a Soviet cap and jacket, a .22 caliber pistol and bullets, and rubber «contraceptives» for ‘waterproofing film’. Other agents were issued radio sets, hand generators, nickel-cadmium batteries, and homing beacons.
An affiliated project under AERODYNAMIC was codenamed CAPACHO.
CIA documents show that AERODYNAMIC continued in operation through the Richard Nixon administration into 1970.
The program took on more of a psychological warfare operation veneer than a real-life facsimile of a John Le Carré «behind the Iron Curtain» spy novel. The CIA set up a propaganda company in Manhattan that catered to printing and publishing anti-Soviet ZPUHVR literature that would be smuggled into Ukraine. The new battleground would not be swampy retreats near Odessa and cold deserted warehouses in Kiev but at the center of the world of publishing and the broadcast media.
The CIA front company was Prolog Research and Publishing Associates, Inc., which later became known simply as Prolog. The CIA codename for Prolog was AETENURE. The group published the Ukrainian language «Prolog» magazine. The CIA referred to Prolog as a «non-profit, tax exempt cover company for the ZP/UHVR’s activities». The «legal entity» used by the CIA to fund Prolog remains classified information. However, the SECRET CIA document does state that the funds for Prolog were passed to the New York office «via Denver and Los Angeles and receipts are furnished Prolog showing fund origin to backstop questioning by New York fiscal authorities».
As for the Munich office of Prolog, the CIA document states that funding for it comes from an account separate from that of Prolog in New York from a cooperating bank, which also remains classified. In 1967, the CIA merged the activities of Prolog Munich and the Munich office of the Ukrainian exiled nationalist «Suchasnist» journal. The Munich office also supported the «Ukrainische Gesellschaft fur Auslandstudien». The CIA documents also indicate that US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents may have interfered with AERODYNAMIC agents in New York. A 1967 CIA directive advised all ZPUHVR agents in the United States to either report their contacts with United Nations mission diplomats and UN employees from the USSR and the Ukrainian SSR to the FBI or their own CIA project case officer. CIA agents in charge of AERODYNAMIC in New York and Munich were codenamed AECASSOWARY agents. Apparently not all that taken with the brevity of MI-6’s famed agent «007», one CIA agent in Munich was codenamed AECASSOWARY/6 and the senior agent in New York was AECASSOWARY/2.
AECASSOWARY agents took part in and ran other AERODYNAMIC teams that infiltrated the Vienna World Youth Conference in 1959. The Vienna infiltration operation, where contact with made with young Ukrainians, was codenamed LCOUTBOUND by the CIA.
In 1968, the CIA ordered Prolog Research and Publishing Associates, Inc. terminated and replaced by Prolog Research Corporation, «a profit-making, commercial enterprise ostensibly serving contracts for unspecified users as private individuals and institutions».
The shakeup of Prolog was reported by the CIA to have arisen from operation MHDOWEL. There is not much known about MHDOWEL other than it involved the blowing of the CIA cover of a non-profit foundation. The following is from a memo to file, dated January 31, 1969, from CIA assistant general counsel John Greany, «Concerns a meeting of Greaney, counsel Lawrence Houston and Rocca about a ‘confrontation’ with NY FBI office on January 17, 1969. They discussed two individuals whose names were redacted. One was said to be a staff agent of the CIA since 8/28/61 who had been assigned in 1964 to write a monograph, which had been funded by a grant from a foundation whose cover was blown in MHDOWEL (I suspect that is code for US Press). One of the individuals [name redacted] had been requested for use with Project DTPILLAR in November 1953 to Feb. 1955 and later in March 1964 for WUBRINY. When the Domestic Operations Division advised Security that this person would not be used in WUBRINY, Rocca commented that ‘there are some rather ominous allegations against members of the firm of [redacted],’ indicating one member of that firm was a ‘card-carrying member of the Communist Party.’ The memo went on to say that Rocca was investigating the use of the individual in Project DTPILLAR concerning whether that person had mentioned activities in Geneva in March 1966 in connection with Herbert Itkin». Raymond Rocca was the deputy chief of the CIA’s Counterintelligence Division. Itkin was an undercover agent for the FBI and CIA who allegedly infiltrated the Mafia and was given a new identity in California as «Herbert Atkin» in 1972.
In 1969, AERODYNAMIC began advancing the cause of the Crimean Tatars. In 1959, owing to Canada’s large Ukrainian population, Canada’s intelligence service began a program similar to AERODYNAMIC codenamed «REDSKIN».
As international air travel increased, so did the number of visitors to the West from Soviet Ukraine. These travelers were of primary interest to AERODYNAMIC. Travelers were asked by CIA agents to clandestinely carry Prolog materials, all censored by the Soviet government, back to Ukraine for distribution. Later, AERODYNAMIC agents began approaching Ukrainian visitors to eastern European countries, particularly Soviet Ukrainian visitors to Czechoslovakia during the «Prague Spring» of 1968. The Ukrainian CIA agents had the same request to carry back subversive literature to Ukraine.
AERODYNAMIC continued into the 1980s as operation QRDYNAMIC, which was assigned to the CIA’s Political and Psychological Staff’s Soviet East Europe Covert Action Program. Prolog saw its operations expanded from New York and Munich to London, Paris, and Tokyo. QRDYNAMIC began linking up with operations financed by hedge fund tycoon George Soros, particularly the Helsinki Watch Group’s operatives in Kiev and Moscow. Distribution of underground material expanded from journals and pamphlets to audio cassette tapes, self-inking stamps with anti-Soviet messages, stickers, and T-shirts.
QRDYNAMIC expanded its operations into China, obviously from the Tokyo office, and Czechoslovakia, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Soviet Central Asia, the Soviet Pacific Maritime region, and among Ukrainian-Canadians. QRDYNAMIC also paid journalist agents-of-influence for their articles. These journalists were located in Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, Israel, and Austria.
But at the outset of glasnost and perestroika in the mid-1980s, things began to look bleak for QRDYNAMIC. The high cost of rent in Manhattan had it looking for cheaper quarters in New Jersey.
Assistant Secretary of State for European/Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, the baked goods-bearing «Maiden of Maidan,» told the US Congress that the United States spent $5 billion to wrest control of Ukraine from the Russian sphere since the collapse of the Soviet Union. With the recent disclosures from the CIA it appears that the price tag to the American ta
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U.S. support for Ukraine’s liberation during the Cold War: A study of Prolog Research and Publishing Corporation
University of California Press
Communist and Post-Communist Studies
April 201245(1-2):51-64
DOI:10.1016/j.postcomstud.2012.02.007
Authors:
Taras Kuzio
University of Alberta
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Abstract
The US government established contact in Western Europe with anti-Communist refugees following World War II and covertly supported a variety of groups. Initially in the 1940s cooperation between the OSS/CIA and émigré groups provided support for the parachuting of couriers to contact underground organizations in ethnic homelands and over the next four decades until the late 1980s through support for non-violent methods against Soviet power. One of the organisations supported by the US government was Prolog Research and Publishing Corporation that existed from 1952 to 1992. Prolog was established by zpUHVR (external representation of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council), the political umbrella of Ukrainian nationalist, anti-Soviet partisans who fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet state until the early 1950s. US government support facilitated a democratic alternative to nationalist émigrés who dominated the Ukrainian diaspora as well as a different strategy towards the pursuit of the liberation of Ukraine. Prolog proved to be more successful in its liberation strategy of providing large volumes of technical, publishing and financial support to dissidents and opposition currents within the Communist Party of Ukraine. The alternative nationalist strategy of building underground structures in Soviet Ukraine routinely came under threat from infiltration by the KGB. US government support enabled Prolog to publish books and journals, including the only Russian-language journal published by a Ukrainian émigré organization, across the political spectrum and to closely work with opposition movements in central-eastern Europe, especially Poland.
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