Prolog chief Mykola Lebed (“AECASSOWARY 2”), the “Foreign Minister” of the ZP/UHVR, was Bandera’s murderous deputy during World War II and was once associated with a Gestapo school in occupied Poland which included “exercises in the hardening of hearts” — torturing Jews. A US military intelligence report shared the view that Lebed was a “well-known sadist and collaborator of the Germans.” He became the CIA’s go-to Ukrainian nationalist for decades.

Lebed complained to his handlers that Dobriansky “has more and more identified with the far-right in American politics” as he slipped “more and more under the influence of the Bandera people.” In 1967, the CIA informed the 303 Committee, a high-level interagency panel that approved major covert actions, about Operation Aerodynamic, and that “right-wing Ukrainians in the UCCA (Ukrainian Congress Committee of America), have also denounced Prolog and its leader as soft on communism and as CIA tools.”

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Another Wikipedia myth is that Lev Dobriansky and Yaroslav Stetsko co-chaired the National Captive Nations Committee (NCNC). Dobriansky set up this body following what appears to have been one of the proudest accomplishments of his life. In 1959 the UCCA president drafted a Congressional resolution that Dwight Eisenhower signed into law, which designated the third week of July as Captive Nations Week, “until such time as freedom and independence shall have been achieved for all the captive nations of the world.”

According to Public Law 86-90, this included “submerged nations” of the Soviet Union (such as “Idel-Ural” and “Cossackia”) that Dobriansky’s nemesis George F. Kennan claimed were “invented in the Nazi propaganda ministry.” Lev Dobriansky typically gets all the credit for authoring the “Captive Nations Resolution,” which a former Secretary of State once privately described as “one of the wildest kinds of cold war kind of thing you ever seen in your life.”