Boleslav A. Holtsman was the primary American intelligence liaison with Ukrainian nationalist leaders at the end of WWII and years beyond.
Bill Holtsman served as a translator with OSS in Europe until his discharge in early 1946. He received an… more
The Hungarian Zsolt Aradi was a key liaison of Western intelligence with Ukrainian nationalists. His OSS cryptonyms were CRABBE and SARAZEN, his CIA cryptonyms KILKENNY and CARRYALL. Malcolm W. STEVENS was his pseudonym.1
Zsolt Aradi, a Hungarian… more
Ivan Hrinioch (Born Dec 28, 19071
; also known as Hryniokh, Johann Hrijnioch), a Uniate Catholic priest, was the chaplain for the collaborationist Nachtigall battalion, and in 1946 became a US intelligence asset with 'full operational approval since… more
Mykola Lebed (Ukrainian: Микола Лебідь; January 11, 1909 - July 18, 1998), also known as Maksym Ruban, Marko or Yevhen Skyrba, was a Ukrainian nationalist guerrilla fighter and a WWII war criminal. He was among those tried, convicted, and imprisoned… more
Lev E. Dobriansky (November 9, 1918 – January 30, 2008 was a professor of economics at Georgetown University, U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas and anti-communist advocate. He is known for his work with the National Captive Nations Committee and the… more
Robert Charles Adolphe Marie Lucien Close, born on April 30, 1922, and deceased on December 6, 2003, in Brussels, is a Belgian politician and military.
Education
He received his military education first at the Royal School of Cadets (École royale… more
Yaroslav Stetsko (Ukrainian: Ярослав Стецько; born 19 January 1912 in Ternopil, Austria–Hungary; died 5 July 1986 in Munich, Germany) was a nationalist Ukrainian paramilitary leader. In 1941, during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, he had… more
Roman-Taras Yosypovych Shukhevych (Ukrainian: Рома́н-Тарас Йо́сипович Шухе́вич, also known by his pseudonym Taras Chuprynka, 30 June 1907 – 5 March 1950) was a Ukrainian nationalist, one of the commanders of Abwehr's Nachtigall Battalion, a… more
When in 1923 the Allies recognized Polish rule over western Ukraine, the underground Ukrainian Military Organization (Ukrainska viiskova orhanizatsiia, UVO), composed of Ukrainian veterans, turned to Germany and Lithuania for political and financial… more
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Lev Prchala (* 23. March 1892 in Silesian Ostrava; † 11. June 1963 in Feldbach) was a general of the Czechoslovak army, and after World War II became an important British intelligence asset in the Czechoslovakian emigré community.
Life… more
Grigore Gafencu (1892-1957) was a Rumanian collaborationist foreign minister, who in early 1939 succeeded Nicolae Petrescu-Comnens in the Government of Cristea and retained this post also among several subsequent prime ministers. In the government… more