From the Files of the CIA: How US Spies Helped Ukrainian Fascist Stefan Bandera Escape Prosecution as WWII War Criminal

We are pleased to present to our readers a documentary proof of the US Government’s successful efforts to help Nazi collaborator Ukrainian  fascist Stefan Bandera avoid capture by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II.

The United States Office of Strategic Services – the wartime clandestine service of the US Government – was more interested in pursuing the bipartisan holy war of the US capitalist class against the Soviet Union than they were in prosecuting Nazi war criminals.  The OSS – at the time under the command of Democrat Harry Truman -  completely co-opted whole sections of Hitler’s intelligence operations (the Gehlen Organization being one of the most infamous) and sought out anyone who was willing to help the US destabilize postwar Eastern Europe in an attempt to roll back the gains won during the war by the Red Army.  They called their operation to help Nazi war criminals escape justice “The Rat Line” – it was like an “Underground Railroad” for fascists, run by the United States Government. Then as now, the US ruling class was willing to make common cause with even some of the most notorious war criminals who, like Bandera and his Ukrainian nationalist friends were responsible for organizing paramilitary organizations that carried out wholesale massacres of Poles, Jews and communist workers on the eastern front.  In the same way that the US has repeatedly made common cause with the most disgusting Islamic fundamentalists from all over the Middle East in order to further their imperialist ambitions, at the end of WWII the US capitalist class turned on their erstwhile allies in the USSR the moment the war ended and immediately began recruiting Nazis who had been operating hand-in-glove with Hitler’s Nazis in campaigns against the Soviet-allied partisan groups in places like the Ukraine.

The documents, which we retrieved from the CIA’s own website, where a large tranche of formerly classified documents on Nazi war criminals have recently been released, contain many smoking guns; OSS agents openly discuss their plans to “tip off” Bandera to the fact that he is in danger of being captured by rival, Nazi-hunting elements of the US military and turned over to the Soviets.

1946 – OSS schemes to tip off Bandera to thwart his capture by Soviet Union

We have only had a brief opportunity to review these documents; we are rushing to bring this documentary history of US collaboration with Ukrainian fascists in order to throw a sharp light on their continued work with the descendants of Bandera’s fascists in today’s Ukraine, where scumbags like US Senator John McCain openly appear in public in Kiev with notorious Bandera-worshippers from the Ukrainian fascist Svoboda Party like Oleg Tyahnybok.

John McCain makes public appearance in Kiev with leader of fascist Svoboda Party, Oleg Tyahnybok (right) at his side, 15 December, 2013. [AP Photo]

We’ve assembled the entire 293-page CIA dossier on Bandera into a single .pdf file, for your downloading convenience.  Feel free to distribute this all over the world; it is a priceless proof of the boundless depravity of the US capitalist class: the most corrupt, venal and bloodthirsty regime on planet Earth.  The first smoking gun documents we found were on pages 12 and 13 as well as pages 16 through 19, where the plan to tip off Bandera to his imminent capture by US Nazi-hunters and/or the Soviets is hatched by scum from the OSS. [As we review these documents, we'll post highlights at the end of this article - IWPCHI]

Today, there is an organization in the US that seeks to “honor the memory” of these OSS “heroes”; they call themselves “The OSS Society”.  How disgusting are these cretins?  Once a gang of Nazi-lovers, always a gang of Nazi-lovers! Feast your eyes on this photo:

MG John Singlaub, USA (Ret.), Chairman of The OSS Society, receiving the Bull Simons Award from Admiral Eric Olson, USN, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command, in Tampa, FL on May 18, 2011. [Source: The OSS Society website]

Why do we call for workers revolution in the US?  To sweep fascism into the dustbin of history where it belongs, and its sponsors in the worlds’ capitalist classes along with it!  SMASH FASCISM!  FOR WORKERS SOCIALIST REVOLUTION In THE UKRAINE, THE US AND AROUND THE WORLD!

IWPCHI

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BANDERA FILES – SMOKING GUN DOCS:

1946 – OSS schemes to tip off Bandera to thwart his capture by Soviet Union

BANDERA FILES: HIGHLIGHTS

“STEPAN A BANDERA AND THE 1941 ‘UKRAINIAN STATE’” by Petro Yarovyy, Sotsialistichteskiy Vestnik, Jun/Jul 1951