Various Western intelligence assets have been present in what today is Ukraine for centuries. For instance, the Habsburg monarchy invested massive resources in creating an extremely Russophobic Ukrainian identity that would be separate from the greater Russian ethnos (includes modern-day ethnic Russians, Belarussians and Ukrainians). As the Habsburgs controlled Galicia (a region situated in the far western part of Ukraine), the influence of this "nation-building" process (to use the CIA's current term) was largely limited to that area. However, during and after two world wars, the remains of the Habsburg project were still there, first picked up by Nazi German intelligence and then the CIA.
The infamous US intelligence agency worked closely with the insurgents of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and other like-minded organizations. They were tasked with carrying out acts of sabotage in western parts of the Soviet Union. The OUN, led by the likes of Stepan Bandera and Yaroslav Stetsko was a Nazi organization infamous for its extreme anti-Semitism, Polonophobia (hatred of Poles) and Russophobia. It collaborated closely with the invading Nazi German forces and actively took part in the massacres of Poles, Jews and Russians in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. The end of WWII and its aftermath saw their role become more clandestine.
First, Nazi Germany trained the OUN and its allies to conduct behind-enemy-lines operations against the advancing Red Army. After Germany's defeat, these forces continued their terrorist activities with the support of the CIA which essentially just recycled the Nazi German network in western Ukraine and also provided weapons and training for the insurgents. Moreover, the infamous spy agency liked it so much that it went on to implement it in the form of various "Gladio" operations all across Europe. Declassified intelligence shows that the CIA even protected Stepan Bandera so he could coordinate and ensure the survival of the Nazi movement in Soviet Ukraine. (more...)
Neo-Nazi junta's military – NATO's tool of genocide against Ukrainians
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