Mykola Lebed
Ukrainian political activist, Ukrainian nationalist, and guerrilla fighter / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mykola Kyrylovych Lebed or Lebid (Ukrainian: Микола Кирилович Лебідь;[lower-alpha 1] January 11, 1909 – July 18, 1998), also known as Maksym Ruban, Marko or Yevhen Skyrba, was a Ukrainian nationalist political activist and guerrilla fighter. He was among those tried, convicted, and imprisoned for the murder of Polish interior minister Bronisław Pieracki in 1934. The court sentenced him to death, but the state commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. He escaped when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939.[1]: 73 As a leader of OUN-B, he was responsible for the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.[2][3][4]
Mykola Lebed | |
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Микола Лебідь | |
Born | (1909-01-11)January 11, 1909 Novi Strilyshcha, Bibrka County, Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary |
Died | July 18, 1998(1998-07-18) (aged 89) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States |
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Other names | Maksym Ruban, Marko or Yevhen Skyrba |
Occupation | Politician |
In 2009, the United States Congress directed the National Archives and Records Administration to review declassified intelligence records pertaining to the activities of the Nazis and the Japanese Imperial Government that were not processed in time for the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group's (IWG) final report in 2007.: pref. The follow-up report from the IWG's Richard Breitman and Norman J. W. Goda included a discussion of Lebed's relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency during the Cold War.: pref. In 1949 he emigrated to the United States and lived in New York. Through Prolog Research Corporation, his CIA funded organization, he gathered intelligence on the Soviet Union as late as into the late 1960s. The CIA project name for the operation was AERODYNAMIC.[1]: 85ff. The report stated that as late as 1991 the CIA, for fear of compromising the operation and triggering outrage within the Ukrainian émigré community, shielded Lebed from prosecution for war crimes by preventing the United States Department of Justice's Office of Special Investigations from learning about his wartime connections to the Nazis.: 90–91. He died in 1998.[5]