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FTR #876 The OUN/B and the Assassination of JFK

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This pro­gram was record­ed in one, 60-minute seg­ment [6]

Intro­duc­tion: Most of the pro­gram details the assas­si­na­tion of OUN/B leader Stephan Ban­dera [7]. Blamed on the KGB, the killing was–in all likelihood–performed by BND (Ger­man for­eign intel­li­gence and the suc­ces­sor to the Rein­hard Gehlen “org”) or oth­er Under­ground Reich-con­nect­ed ele­ments, pos­si­bly ele­ments of CIA.

The broad­cast cen­ters on dis­in­for­ma­tion (dis­sem­i­nated by W.A.C.C.FL.-related ele­ments) point­ing to Lee Har­vey Oswald as a KGB-trained assas­sin.

Attempt­ing to pin the assas­si­na­tion on the Sovi­ets and/or Cubans, these ele­ments spurred many lib­er­als to endorse the “Oswald as lone-nut” hypoth­e­sis. They were afraid that the assas­si­na­tion could lead to nuclear war, if the per­cep­tion gained trac­tion that Oswald was a com­mu­nist. A cen­tral ele­ment in this dis­in­for­ma­tion ploy was an attempt to con­nect the JFK assas­si­na­tion to the death of Stephan Ban­dera, alleged­ly per­formed by an KGB assas­sin named Bog­dan Stashyn­sky.

Mur­dered on the same day that Lee Har­vey Oswald “defect­ed” to the Sovi­et Union, Ban­der­a’s killing was linked to Oswald’s alleged killing of JFK by ele­ments asso­ci­at­ed with the W.A.C.C.F.L. (the World Anti-Com­mu­nist Con­gress for Free­dom and Liberation–the fore­run­ner of the World Anti-Com­mu­nist League [8].)

W.A.C.C.F.L. ele­ments dis­sem­i­nated the lie that Oswald was trained at the same facil­ity as Stashyn­sky, and that the JFK hit was part of a Sovi­et pro­gram of assas­si­na­tion of West­ern polit­i­cal lead­ers. It should be not­ed that W.A.C.C.F.L.-related ele­ments also fig­ured promi­nently in the “han­dling” of Oswald in New Orleans, Dal­las and (pos­si­bly) the Sovi­et Union.

Those W.A.C.C.F.L. ele­ments were close­ly asso­ci­at­ed with the OUN/B and the Anti-Bol­she­vik Bloc of Nations, a con­sor­tium of East­ern Euro­pean fas­cist groups inex­tri­ca­bly linked with the Gehlen orga­ni­za­tion, the BND, the CIA and the Under­ground Reich.

The dis­in­for­ma­tion that Oswald was a KGB assas­sin was insert­ed into a Sen­ate Sub­com­mit­tee report by Sen. Thomas Dodd, with assis­tance from ele­ments of CIA.

A mem­ber of the U.S. pros­e­cu­to­r­ial staff at Nurem­berg., this for­mer FBI agent (Dodd) was close to the Amer­i­can Secu­rity Coun­cil (ASC), a domes­tic fas­cist group [9].  With its roots in the Hitler-Goebbels Anti-­Com­in­tern, the Amer­i­can Secu­rity Coun­cil was a key Amer­i­can link to the for­mer World Anti-Com­mu­nist League or WACL [10]. Cre­ated by for­mer FBI agents dis­grun­tled at the demise of Sen­a­tor Joseph McCarthy’s “inves­ti­ga­tions,” the Amer­i­can Secu­rity Coun­cil coa­lesced around the files of Har­ry Jung’s Amer­i­can Vig­i­lance Intel­li­gence Fed­er­a­tion. Vir­u­lently anti-Semit­ic, Jung’s orga­ni­za­tion was part of the Anti-Com­intern pri­or to World War II.

[11]Count­ing among its ranks some of the most promi­nent names on the far right, the orga­ni­za­tion kept track of peo­ple it con­sid­ered “sub­ver­sive,” shar­ing polit­i­cal intel­li­gence with prospec­tive employ­ers (par­tic­u­larly defense con­trac­tors). The ASC hat­ed Kennedy and it is not, there­fore, alto­gether sur­pris­ing that Dodd helped to dis­sem­i­nate the dis­in­for­ma­tion that Lee Har­vey Oswald had been trained in assas­si­na­tion by the KGB. With CIA assis­tance, Dodd insert­ed this Ban­dera-linked dis­in­for­ma­tion into a Sen­ate Sub­com­mit­tee report. This dis­in­for­ma­tion, with roots in the same WACL milieu as the ASC, led lib­er­als to cov­er-up the assas­si­na­tion out of fear that pub­lic per­cep­tion that a com­mu­nist killed the Pres­i­dent would lead to a Third World War.

It is also inter­est­ing and very pos­si­bly rel­e­vant that the dis­in­for­ma­tion about Oswald/Stashynsky and the KGB was first called to the atten­tion of Julien Sour­wine by OUN/B oper­a­tive Lev Dobri­an­sky, who lat­er served as Rea­gan’s ambas­sador to the Bahamas, while his daugh­ter Paula served on Rea­gan’s Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil. Paula Dobri­an­sky lat­er served as an Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of State under George W. Bush and head­ed the Tibet desk for a time.

Dodd’s role in this affair is all the more inter­est­ing when one con­sid­ers the pos­si­bil­ity that Oswald may have ordered his weapons while work­ing for Dodd’s Sub­com­mit­tee. Inves­ti­gat­ing the mail-order firearms busi­ness, the Dodd com­mit­tee focused on the two firms from which Oswald alleged­ly pur­chased his weapons. Both Sea­port Traders and Klein’s sport­ing goods, from which Oswald alleged­ly ordered his weapons, were under inves­ti­ga­tion by the Dodd Sub­com­mit­tee. Oswald was appar­ently extra­or­di­nar­ily inter­ested in mail-order guns, a strange way for a prospec­tive assas­sin to acquire weapon­ry. In 1963 in Texas, he could have pur­chased his guns over the counter with no trace of the trans­ac­tion.

Pro­gram High­lights Include:

(It is impos­si­ble with­in the scope of this post to cov­er our volu­mi­nous cov­er­age of the Ukraine cri­sis. Pre­vi­ous pro­grams on the sub­ject are: FTR #‘s 777 [13]778 [14]779 [15]780 [16]781 [17]782 [18]783 [19]784 [20]794 [21], 800 [22]803 [23]804 [24], 808 [25]811 [26]817 [27]

818 [28]824 [29]826 [30]829 [31]832 [32]833 [33]837 [34]849 [35]850 [36]853 [37]857 [38]860 [39], 872 [40]875 [41]876 [42], 877 [43]Listeners/readers are encour­aged to exam­ine these pro­grams and/or their descrip­tions in detail, in order to flesh out their under­stand­ing.)

 1. Most of the pro­gram details the assas­si­na­tion of OUN/B leader Stephan Ban­dera [7]. Blamed on the KGB, the killing was–in all likelihood–performed by BND (Ger­man for­eign intel­li­gence and the suc­ces­sor to the Rein­hard Gehlen “org”) or oth­er Under­ground Reich-con­nect­ed ele­ments.

Much of the broad­cast cen­ters on dis­in­for­ma­tion (dis­sem­i­nated by W.A.C.C.FL.-related ele­ments) point­ing to Lee Har­vey Oswald as a KGB-trained assas­sin.

Attempt­ing to pin the assas­si­na­tion on the Sovi­ets and/or Cubans, these ele­ments spurred many lib­er­als to endorse the “Oswald as lone-nut” hypoth­e­sis. They were afraid that the assas­si­na­tion could lead to nuclear war, if the per­cep­tion gained trac­tion that Oswald was a com­mu­nist. A cen­tral ele­ment in this dis­in­for­ma­tion ploy was an attempt to con­nect the JFK assas­si­na­tion to the death of Stephan Ban­dera, alleged­ly per­formed by an KGB assas­sin named Bog­dan Stashyn­sky.

Mur­dered on the same day that Lee Har­vey Oswald “defect­ed” to the Sovi­et Union, Ban­der­a’s killing was linked to Oswald’s alleged killing of JFK by ele­ments asso­ci­at­ed with the W.A.C.C.F.L. (the World Anti-Com­mu­nist Con­gress for Free­dom and Liberation–the fore­run­ner of the World Anti-Com­mu­nist League [8].)

W.A.C.C.F.L. ele­ments dis­sem­i­nated the lie that Oswald was trained at the same facil­ity as Stashyn­sky, and that the JFK hit was part of a Sovi­et pro­gram of assas­si­na­tion of West­ern polit­i­cal lead­ers. It should be not­ed that WACL-relat­ed ele­ments also fig­ured promi­nently in the “han­dling” of Oswald in New Orleans, Dal­las and (pos­si­bly) the Sovi­et Union.

Those W.A.C.C.F.L. ele­ments were close­ly asso­ci­at­ed with the OUN/B and the Anti-Bol­she­vik Bloc of Nations, a con­sor­tium of East­ern Euro­pean fas­cist groups inex­tri­ca­bly linked with the Gehlen orga­ni­za­tion, the BND, the CIA and the Under­ground Reich.

The infor­ma­tion in this side is from The Dal­las Con­spir­a­cy [44], an unpub­lished man­u­script by Peter Dale Scott. The audio is excerpt­ed from AFA #15 [10], record­ed in March of 1986.

2. The sec­ond audio excerpt is from FTR #158 [45], record­ed on 6/6/1999. The doc­u­men­ta­tion is from Deep Pol­i­tics and the Death of JFK [46] by Peter Dale Scott. The dis­in­for­ma­tion that Oswald was a KGB assas­sin was insert­ed into a Sen­ate Sub­com­mit­tee report by Sen. Thomas Dodd.

A mem­ber of the U.S. pros­e­cu­to­r­ial staff at Nurem­berg., this for­mer FBI agent (Dodd) was close to the Amer­i­can Secu­rity Coun­cil (ASC), a domes­tic fas­cist group [9].  With its roots in the Hitler-Goebbels Anti-­Com­in­tern, the Amer­i­can Secu­rity Coun­cil was a key Amer­i­can link to the for­mer World Anti-Com­mu­nist League or WACL [10]. Cre­ated by for­mer FBI agents dis­grun­tled at the demise of Sen­a­tor Joseph McCarthy’s “inves­ti­ga­tions,” the Amer­i­can Secu­rity Coun­cil coa­lesced around the files of Har­ry Jung’s Amer­i­can Vig­i­lance Intel­li­gence Fed­er­a­tion. Vir­u­lently anti-Semit­ic, Jung’s orga­ni­za­tion was part of the Anti-Com­intern pri­or to World War II.

Count­ing among its ranks some of the most promi­nent names on the far right, the orga­ni­za­tion kept track of peo­ple it con­sid­ered “sub­ver­sive,” shar­ing polit­i­cal intel­li­gence with prospec­tive employ­ers (par­tic­u­larly defense con­trac­tors). The ASC hat­ed Kennedy and it is not, there­fore, alto­gether sur­pris­ing that Dodd helped to dis­sem­i­nate the dis­in­for­ma­tion that Lee Har­vey Oswald had been trained in assas­si­na­tion by the KGB. With CIA assis­tance, Dodd insert­ed this Ban­dera-linked dis­in­for­ma­tion into a Sen­ate Sub­com­mit­tee report. This dis­in­for­ma­tion, with roots in the same WACL milieu as the ASC, led lib­er­als to cov­er-up the assas­si­na­tion out of fear that pub­lic per­cep­tion that a com­mu­nist killed the Pres­i­dent would lead to a Third World War.

It is also inter­est­ing and very pos­si­bly rel­e­vant that the dis­in­for­ma­tion about Oswald/Stashynsky and the KGB was first called to the atten­tion of Julien Sour­wine by OUN/B oper­a­tive Lev Dobri­an­sky, who lat­er served as Rea­gan’s ambas­sador to the Bahamas, while his daugh­ter Paula served on Rea­gan’s Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil. Paula Dobri­an­sky lat­er served as an Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of State under George W. Bush and head­ed the Tibet desk for a time.

Deep Pol­i­tics and the Death of JFK by Peter Dale Scott; Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia Press; p. 216. [47]

. . . . [Gen­er­al Charles] Wilough­by, in par­tic­u­lar, was also part of the lead­ing defense-indus­tri­al lob­by the Amer­i­can Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil, along with polit­i­cal­ly active army reserve offi­cers like Lev Dobri­an­sky, who first brought the issue of Bog­dan Stashyn­sky and the alleged mur­der train­ing school to the atten­tion of Sour­wine and the Sen­ate Inter­nal Secu­ri­ty Sub­com­mit­tee. . . . 

. . . . Sen­a­tor Dodd was on the ASC pay­roll when he gen­er­at­ed the Sen­ate sub­com­mit­tee report on Stashyn­sky’s sup­posed mur­der train­ing school. . . . 

3a. As indi­cat­ed above, Dobri­an­sky served as Rea­gan’s ambas­sador to the Bahamas, while his daugh­ter Paula served on Rea­gan’s Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil, ulti­mate­ly becom­ing an Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of State dur­ing the George W. Bush admis­tra­tions.

We note, in pass­ing, that the Bahamas were an epi­cen­ter of oper­a­tions for the Bank al-Taqwa, a major vehi­cle for fund­ing the Afghan muja­hadeen and, lat­er, their off­shoot Al-Qae­da. (Off­shore enti­ties used to fund the Afghan muja­hadin and Al-Qae­da were set up by Bau­doin Dunand [48], a friend of, pro­tege of, and attor­ney for Fran­cois Genoud [49].)

Paul Dobri­an­sky head­ed the Tibet desk at the State Depart­ment, work­ing with the CIA and SS-con­nect­ed Dalai Lama. Paula Dobri­an­sky has been very crit­i­cal [16] of Oba­ma’s pol­i­cy toward Ukraine.

“Under­sec­re­tary for Democ­ra­cy and Glob­al Affairs”; U.S. Depart­ment of State: Archive. [50]

The Office of the Under Sec­re­tary for Democ­ra­cy and Glob­al Affairs, head­ed by Dr. Paula J. Dobri­an­sky [51], coor­di­nates U.S. for­eign rela­tions on a vari­ety of glob­al issues, includ­ing democ­ra­cy, human rights, and labor; envi­ron­ment, oceans, health and sci­ence; pop­u­la­tion, refugees, and migra­tion; wom­en’s issues; and traf­fick­ing in per­sons and avian and pan­dem­ic influen­za.

Since her appoint­ment in 2001, Under Sec­re­tary Dobri­an­sky has also served con­cur­rent­ly as the Spe­cial Coor­di­na­tor for Tibetan IssuesIn this capac­i­ty, she is the U.S. gov­ern­men­t’s point per­son on Tibet pol­i­cy mat­ters, includ­ing: sup­port for dia­logue between the Chi­nese and the Dalai Lama or his rep­re­sen­ta­tives; pro­mo­tion of human rights in Tibet; and efforts to pre­serve Tibet’s unique cul­tur­al, reli­gious and lin­guis­tic iden­ti­ty.

3b. More about the rela­tion­ship between Lev Dobri­an­sky, the OUN/B’s Amer­i­can umbrel­la orga­ni­za­tion (the U.C.C.A.) and the Rea­gan admin­is­tra­tion:
“Is the US Back­ing neo-Nazis in the Ukraine?” by Max Blu­men­thal [Alter­net]; Salon.com; 2/25/2014. [52]

. . . . Many sur­viv­ing OUN‑B mem­bers fled to West­ern Europe and the Unit­ed States – occa­sion­al­ly with CIA help – where they qui­et­ly forged polit­i­cal alliances with right-wing ele­ments. “You have to under­stand, we are an under­ground orga­ni­za­tion. We have spent years qui­et­ly pen­e­trat­ing posi­tions of influ­ence,” one mem­ber told jour­nal­ist Russ Bel­lant, who doc­u­ment­ed the group’s resur­gence in the Unit­ed States in his 1988 book, “Old Nazis, New Right, and the Repub­li­can Par­ty.” In Wash­ing­ton, the OUN‑B recon­sti­tut­ed under the ban­ner of the Ukrain­ian Con­gress Com­mit­tee of Amer­i­ca (UCCA), an umbrel­la orga­ni­za­tion com­prised of “com­plete OUN‑B fronts,” accord­ing to Bel­lant. By the mid-1980’s, the Rea­gan admin­is­tra­tion was hon­ey­combed with UCCA mem­bers, with the group’s chair­man Lev Dobri­an­sky [47], serv­ing as ambas­sador to the Bahamas, and his daugh­ter, Paula, sit­ting on the Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil. Rea­gan per­son­al­ly wel­comed Stet­sko, the Ban­derist leader who over­saw the mas­sacre of 7000 Jews in Lviv, into the White House in 1983.

“Your strug­gle is our strug­gle,” Rea­gan told the for­mer Nazi col­lab­o­ra­tor. “Your dream is our dream.” . . . .

4a. We review analy­sis of the Cru­sade For Freedom–the covert oper­a­tion that brought the OUN/B oper­a­tives into the coun­try and also sup­port­ed their gueril­la war­fare in Ukraine, con­duct­ed up until the ear­ly 1950’s. (We cov­ered this in AFA #1 [53] and FTR #777 [13], as well as FTR #875 [41].) Con­ceived by Allen Dulles, over­seen by Richard Nixon, pub­licly rep­re­sent­ed by Ronald Rea­gan and real­ized in con­sid­er­able mea­sure by William Casey, the CFF ulti­mate­ly evolved [54] into a Nazi wing of the GOP [14].

The Secret War Against the Jews; by John Lof­tus and Mark Aarons; Copy­right 1994 by Mark Aarons; St. Martin’s Press; [HC] ISBN 0–312-11057‑X; pp. 122–123. [55]

. . . . Frus­tra­tion over Truman’s 1948 elec­tion vic­to­ry over Dewey (which they blamed on the “Jew­ish vote”) impelled Dulles and his pro­tégé Richard Nixon to work toward the real­iza­tion of the fas­cist free­dom fight­er pres­ence in the Repub­li­can Party’s eth­nic out­reach orga­ni­za­tion. As a young con­gress­man, Nixon had been Allen Dulles’s con­fi­dant. They both blamed Gov­er­nor Dewey’s razor-thin loss to Tru­man in the 1948 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion on the Jew­ish vote. When he became Eisenhower’s vice pres­i­dent in 1952, Nixon was deter­mined to build his own eth­nic base. . . .

. . . . Vice Pres­i­dent Nixon’s secret polit­i­cal war of Nazis against Jews in Amer­i­can pol­i­tics was nev­er inves­ti­gat­ed at the time. The for­eign lan­guage-speak­ing Croa­t­ians and oth­er Fas­cist émi­gré groups had a ready-made net­work for con­tact­ing and mobi­liz­ing the East­ern Euro­pean eth­nic bloc. There is a very high cor­re­la­tion between CIA domes­tic sub­si­dies to Fas­cist ‘free­dom fight­ers’ dur­ing the 1950’s and the lead­er­ship of the Repub­li­can Party’s eth­nic cam­paign groups. The motive for the under-the-table financ­ing was clear: Nixon used Nazis to off­set the Jew­ish vote for the Democ­rats. . . .

. . . . In 1952, Nixon had formed an Eth­nic Divi­sion with­in the Repub­li­can Nation­al Com­mit­tee. Dis­placed fas­cists, hop­ing to be returned to pow­er by an Eisen­how­er-Nixon ‘lib­er­a­tion’ pol­i­cy signed on with the com­mit­tee. In 1953, when Repub­li­cans were in office, the immi­gra­tion laws were changed to admit Nazis, even mem­bers of the SS. They flood­ed into the coun­try. Nixon him­self over­saw the new immi­gra­tion pro­gram. As Vice Pres­i­dent, he even received East­ern Euro­pean Fas­cists in the White House. . .

4b. More about the com­po­si­tion of the cast of the CFF:

The Secret War Against the Jews; by John Lof­tus and Mark Aarons; Copy­right 1994 by Mark Aarons; St. Martin’s Press; [HC] ISBN 0–312-11057‑X; p. 605. [55]

. . . . As a young movie actor in the ear­ly 1950s, Rea­gan was employed as the pub­lic spokesper­son for an OPC front named the ‘Cru­sade for Free­dom.’ Rea­gan may not have known it, but 99 per­cent for the Crusade’s funds came from clan­des­tine accounts, which were then laun­dered through the Cru­sade to var­i­ous orga­ni­za­tions such as Radio Lib­er­ty, which employed Dulles’s Fas­cists. Bill Casey, who lat­er became CIA direc­tor under Ronald Rea­gan, also worked in Ger­many after World War II on Dulles’ Nazi ‘free­dom fight­ers’ pro­gram. When he returned to New York, Casey head­ed up anoth­er OPC front, the Inter­na­tion­al Res­cue Com­mit­tee, which spon­sored the immi­gra­tion of these Fas­cists to the Unit­ed States. Casey’s com­mit­tee replaced the Inter­na­tion­al Red Cross as the spon­sor for Dulles’s recruits. Con­fi­den­tial inter­views, for­mer mem­bers, OPC; for­mer mem­bers, British for­eign and Com­mon­wealth Office. . . .

5. The broad­cast con­cludes with analy­sis of the pro­found over­lap of the key fig­ures in the Cru­sade for Free­dom and the assas­si­na­tion of Pres­i­dent Kennedy. Allen Dulles was a key War­ren Com­mis­sion mem­ber, wide­ly viewed as a key orches­tra­tor of the cov­er-up. Richard Nixon was in Dal­las Texas on 11/22/1963 and lied about it to two FBI agents in Feb­ru­ary of 1964. (The pro­found links between the Kennedy assas­si­na­tion and Water­gate is dis­cussed in, among oth­er pro­grams, The Guns of Novem­ber, Part 3 [56], FTR #253 [57] and Mis­ce­la­neous Archive Show M59 [58].)

Ronald Rea­gan helped frus­trate Jim Gar­rison’s inves­ti­ga­tion by refus­ing to extra­dite Edgar Eugene Bradley to New Orleans as request­ed and sub­se­quent­ly served on the Rock­e­feller Com­mis­sion inves­ti­gat­ing pos­si­ble CIA par­tic­i­pa­tion in the assas­si­na­tion of JFK. (Pre­dictably, the Rock­e­feller Com­mis­sion found none, which is not cred­i­ble.)

6. George H.W. Bush was cir­cu­lat­ing between Dal­las and Hous­ton, claim­ing that he can’t remem­ber where he was and what he was doing on the day of the Pres­i­den­t’s assas­si­na­tion. (Dis­cus­sion of Bush and the JFK assas­si­na­tion is detailed in FTR #712 [59].)

While serv­ing as chair­man of the Repub­li­can Nation­al Com­mit­tee, the elder George Bush shep­herd­ed the Nazi émi­gré com­mu­ni­ty into posi­tion as a per­ma­nent branch of the Repub­li­can Par­ty.

The Secret War Against the Jews; by John Lof­tus and Mark Aarons; Copy­right 1994 by Mark Aarons; St. Martin’s Press; [HC] ISBN 0–312-11057‑X; pp. 369–370. [55]

. . . . It was Bush who ful­filled Nixon’s promise to make the ‘eth­nic emi­gres’ a per­ma­nent part of Repub­li­can pol­i­tics. In 1972, Nixon’s State Depart­ment spokesman con­firmed to his Aus­tralian coun­ter­part that the eth­nic groups were very use­ful to get out the vote in sev­er­al key states. Bush’s tenure as head of the Repub­li­can Nation­al Com­mit­tee exact­ly coin­cid­ed with Las­z­lo Pasztor’s 1972 dri­ve to trans­form the Her­itage Groups Coun­cil into the party’s offi­cial eth­nic arm. The groups Pasz­tor chose as Bush’s cam­paign allies were the émi­gré Fas­cists whom Dulles had brought to the Unit­ed States. . . .