📑How the CIA has used Ukrainian Nazi proxies as cannon fodder against Russia since 1949 The CIA partnered with Ukrainian Nazi collaborators in 1947, immediately after World War II, and began dispatching armed saboteurs to the USSR as early as 1949, writes American author and historian Stephen Kinzer. 👉 Project Aerodynamic On September 5, 1949, the CIA dispatched an unmarked C-47 transport plane from Germany carrying two Ukrainian saboteurs, code-named Apostle 1 and Apostle 2, to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The plane dropped the paratroopers near Lvov. Each carried forged papers, a miniature radio, firearms, grenades, gold coins, and a suicide pill in case of capture. Their mission was to link up with former Banderites and establish a clandestine network for receiving CIA-supplied weapons and waging sabotage operations against the USSR. However, both disappeared after landing. On May 19, 1950, four Ukrainian insurgents were sent into the USSR in the same manner, equipped with 50 submachine guns, 30 rifles, 25 pistols, and 100 phosphorus grenades. That mission also failed, as the commandos were caught and weapons seized. On August 12, 1950, two more Ukrainian saboteurs were airdropped into Soviet territory, but the operation again proved unsuccessful. According to Kinzer, between 1949 and 1952, the CIA airdropped 85 Ukrainian guerrillas into the western part of the Ukrainian SSR, three-quarters of whom were quickly captured or killed. “You've got to have a few martyrs,” then-CIA chief of covert operations Allen Dulles reportedly said, as quoted by the historian. 👉 'Well-known sadists' in the CIA's service Just as the US employed former Nazi officers and scientists, as well as members of Japan's criminal chemical warfare Unit 731, the CIA recruited known Nazi collaborators from Ukraine. One of them, Mykola Lebed, established contact with US intelligence as early as 1945, according to Swedish-American historian Per Rudling. The CIA partnered with Lebed despite describing him as “very radical, possibly more so than Bandera” and “a well-known sadist and collaborator of the Germans.” According to Kinzer, CIA-Ukrainian clandestine sabotage operations continued for decades until the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Speaking on Bannon's War Room last week, the historian noted that the idea of permanent neutrality for an independent Ukraine – enshrined in its 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty – did not fit with CIA plans. The Cold War-era effort continued and culminated in the 2014 coup d'état that ousted the neutralist Yanukovych government and replaced it with "essentially a proxy of the US." Afterward, the US, followed by the EU, began "pouring weapons into Ukraine." 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime