VOICE: UKRAINIAN NAZI COLLABORATOR LIVES IN YONKERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000201160008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 4, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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VOICE: UKRAINIAN NAZI COLLABORATOR LIVES IN YONKERS
NEW YORK
P91-00587 R000201160008-6
A man who now lives in Yonkers collaborated with the Nazis during World War
II but was given U.S. citizenship because of intervention by the Central
Intelligence Agency, the Village Voice reported Tuesday.
The Voice said Mykola Lebed, now 75, led the security forces of a faction of
the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists that worked with the Nazis. The group
committed atrocities against Jews, intellectuals, communists and other
nationalist forces, according to documents cited by the Voice.
In addition, the weekly newspaper charged that Lebed had attended a Gestapo
school in Poland. It quoted from an account by a fellow Ukrainian nationalist
who attended the school and claimed to have seen Lebed help torture a Jewish man
who was accused of raping a German woman.
There was no answer at Lebed's home on Tuesday. Lebed refused to be
interviewed by the Voice, but in a brief encounter at his home he denied having
headed the OUN-B security forces, and said he quit the Gestapo school after five
weeks, the weekly newspaper said. .
According to the Voice, Lebed was identified only as Subject D in a recent
General Accounting Office study on cases in which U.S, Intel idence
organizations aided in the flight of Nazi collaborators to this country.
The report said the man was used as an American agent soon after the end of
the war, and "because of fear for his personal safety and his familiarity with
U.S. intelligence operations, the CIA brought him to the United States."
Lebed arrived in New York in 1949; when he filed for citizenship, "his
identity and history were concealed from the Immigration and Naturalization
Service," the Voice said.
Two'years later, the INS opened an investigation into Lebed's status, but the
CIA intervened to protect his citizenship under a provision that allows it to
tiring 100 people to the United States each year on national security ground,
regardless of their background, the Voice said.
Verne Jervis, a spokesman at INS headquarters in Washington, said the agency
would have no comment on the report. Patti Volz, a CIA spokeswoman in
Washington, said that she had not seen the report and that the agency had no
immediate comment.
The Voice said the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations,
which works to deport war criminals, is examining the case.
Lebed is retired. Until recently, he was president of the Prolog Research and
Publishing Association, which specializes in Ukrainian-language books and
magazines. The Ukraine is now part of the Soviet Union.
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