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Operation Ohio: U.S. Intelligence & OUN-Bandera’s Secret Assassination Campaign — Hidden Histories [2026-03-28]

2mon 22d ago by lemmy.ml/u/tastemyglaive in ukraine@lemmy.ml from kayej.substack.com

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U.S. intelligence agencies, primarily the Army Counter‑Intelligence Corps (CIC), partnered with the Stepan Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN‑B) in the late 1940s to conduct “a reign of terror in the camps,” conducting assassinations of suspected Soviet agents and political rivals among Ukrainian displaced persons in postwar Germany. According to a 1975 WIN Magazine report by Maris Cakars and former CIA‑Phoenix whistleblower Barton Osborn, the operation, code‑named “Ohio,” saw OUN‑B killers using “techniques borrowed from the Nazis” and disposing of bodies in “large bread baking ovens” at camps like Mittenwald, with “American soldiers — probably intelligence officers — held the keys.”

Documentation of at least 100 murders links the program to broader early‑Cold War covert actions such as Operations Bloodstone and Rollback, directly connecting personnel from Ohio to the later CIA Phoenix Program in Vietnam, where “over 40,000 Vietnamese lost their lives.” British historian Stephen Dorril and author Christopher Simpson corroborated key elements, with Simpson noting that such operations used “former Nazi collaborators [as] excellent executioners” because the U.S. could maintain “plausible denial.” This 80‑year‑old alliance with ultranationalist Ukrainian factions laid the groundwork for contemporary US‑Ukraine relations.