INTERROGATION OF BANDERA LEADER

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000460004-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 30, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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'i' RAL t T "..LLI E
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Czechoslo . kis /Poland
SUBJECT
ORIGIN
DATE: 25X1A6a
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Intevy,o,gation of Bandera Lm der
Bur -lak, a I dera 1ear]ar recently ca, tux:?4c1 by the Czechoslovak Axr in Slovakia,
told Army interro",.tce?'G that his bind, wI iah consisted nostly or Ukrainian parti-
nans, vas forrmd in :;;o :there Po1i ncl, noar Prze ysl (a50/b'55). in a series of
elashes in that a. wi,. the band i ?s severely dera1eted, whereupon F3urlak went to
I)-rl ndo, his i ed: r;ta ti1)e" i.or,, for furihor 1nstretetion . He was ordered to
pro-teed to the Krrl yce 'area of '-ol.an,,!, where he would join a..noth(ar band led by
Chrut.3e nko. The i'.r.tter and fir. 3_ak decided to cross Czechr,slovakia and try to
ach Linz, Austr1a, in an ef'ort to co),~tart the head rt-i arts Ts o:' a Ukrainian
i~rgani.zation t, Seri . T'aps were i-Tovided :for them only as far of the Czechoslovakc
border. urlak rzp, oal tared in the Malrz. Trots motnta9.ns (Q49/1 )9), in Slovakia.
?. Bvtrlek~ s inter?ro atcsrs were unah.e to prove that t}la 3anderovc . received any
help whatsoever .z aiide Cv:echos;covakia,. F ~.arth x nere, when Bttrlak at asked to
i t eettt he ?;rtd, t _ d t'^+.-4 litic&l ne tEiork of the C.U.N. (Or anizacya Ukraln-
skyGh National sti v :1 zat i.on of Uki'a iui an Nat:tonalists), lie replied that
'ia only contract w m throne; lh r1. g'.: anoor " sent from Linz on spec.-'.al nieS ,ono ,
He disclaimed trnv 'ur',%ur ? c,tz~. Esc . cof ?8ne political network; whir ch he believed
to be ontjroi'r sc aritte from the nilltar' ov nizat:iovts
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