YONKERS MAN FINGERED AS NAZI WAR FIEND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87M01152R000100090004-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 5, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NFW YORK POST
5 February 1986
YONKERS MAN FINGERED AS
NAZI WAR FIEND
By PETER MOSES
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worked for the Ger-
mans as leader of the
Organization of
Ukrainian Nationalist,
and committed atroci-
ties against Jews. intel-
lectuals. Communists
and other nationalists.
according to a report
by the federal General
Acounting Office.
Lebed, 75, a short
chunky man with
gray hair and a thick
Ukrainian accent. Ini-
tially denied who he
was, but then told a
reporter. "Get your
facts straight. I did
none of those things.
I'm no Nazi.
"During the war I
was a driver," he told
The Post, but later
amended that and said
he spent the war In a
concentration camp in
Germany like many
other Ukrainians."
Lobed then threat-
ened a photographer
who was taking his pic-
ture, saying: "If you
don't stop, I'll break it. I
want to be left alone."
The middle-class
North Yonkers neigh-
borhood where Lebed
and his wife live is a
mixed one.
His next door neigh-
bors are Jewish, but
they refused to talk
because of fear of re-
prisal.
"They don't really
mix with the neigh-
bors," said one woman
who requested ano-
nymity.
"They wave when
they see us and we do
the same. It's hard to
believe he could have
done those things. He
doesn't seem the type."
The report said that
in the '30s Lebed was
involved in the assas-
sination of a high-
ranking Eastern
European leader.
HCD reviewed: no objection to release as redacted
He was sentenced to
death by the Ukrain-
ian government, but
received a life term
after appealing.
Lebed stayed in
prison until the Nazis
invaded the Ukraine,
then he went to work
for them, the GAO said.
While at a Gestapo
training school at
Zakopane in the Uk-
raine, he allegedly
tortured a Jewish
man who was accused
of raping a German
woman.
After he war he
wor or American
intelli ence. He was
brought is coun-
try in 1949 because of
fears for his` safety,
the report said.
In the document,
Lebed was referred to
as Subject D. but
Aaron Breitbart of the
Simon Wiesenthal
Center in Los Angeles
said Lebed has been
identified as Subject D
by two independant
but unnamed sources.
The Justice Dept. is
reportedly examining
the case.
The Lebed report
was part o a recent
GAO study of how in-
tellience agencies
aided Nazi collabora-
tors after the war.
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