The CIA's Neo-Nazis

(May 25, 2000) - Formerly one of the youngest members of the Hitler Youth, Friedhelm Busse,  roused the crowd with anti-foreigner and anti-American vitriol that elicited loud cheers from shaven-head teenagers and 20-somethings who waved illegal imperial German black-and-white flags. Violence erupted after Busse ended his pep talk with a line from an old Nazi song: "We're marching for Hitler day and night because of the need for freedom and bread."

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Busse's status as an elder statesman among hard-core neo-Nazis in Germany is all the more troubling given that his checkered past includes a controversial stint with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.Back in the early 1950s, Busse joined the Bund Deutscher Jugend (BDJ), an elite, CIA-trained paramilitary organization composed largely of ex-Hitler Youth, Wehrmacht and SS personnel in West Germany. Busse and his fellow Bundists were primed to go underground and engage in acts of sabotage and resistance in the event of a Soviet invasion. But instead of focusing on foreign enemies, Busse's "stay behind" unit proceeded to draw up a death list that included future Chancellor Willi Brandt and other leading Social Democrats (West Germany's main opposition party), who were marked for liquidation in case of an ill-defined national security emergency.

The Bund's cover was blown in October 1952, when the West German press got wind that U.S. intelligence was backing a neo-Nazi death squad. Embarrassed State Department officials, who tried to cover up the full extent of American involvement with the youth group, admitted privately that the scandal had resulted in "a serious loss of U.S. prestige."

[Note: The author Martin Lee is an award-winning investigative journalist who documents the rise of right-wing extremists and fanatical militia movements in the U.S., Europe and Russia and identifies the crucial factors aiding their growth. Co-founder of FAIR, (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), Lee is the author of "The Beast Reawakens" a new non-fiction thriller about resurgent racism and neofascism in the U.S. and Europe.]

BDJ | Operation Gladio founded by Paul Lüth

○ CIA's Crusade for Freedom and Recruitment of Nazis

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Who the snipers were is a fair question, but I don't see much justification for the sensationalist title in this connect-the-dots series of items. Radio Free Europe/Liberty says this, Voice of Russia says that... It's the noise of propaganda, and I don't see much signal.

Declassified archives document ties between CIA and Nazis

On June 6, 2006, the US national archives released some 27,000 pages of secret records documenting the CIA's Cold War relations with former German Nazi Party members and officials.

The files reveal numerous cases of German Nazis, some clearly guilty of war crimes, receiving funds, weapons and employment from the CIA. They also demonstrate that US intelligence agencies deliberately refrained from disclosing information about the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann in order to protect Washington's allies in the post-war West German government headed by Christian Democratic leader Konrad Adenauer.

Eichmann, who had sent millions to their deaths while coordinating the Nazis' "final solution" campaign to exterminate European Jewry, went into hiding in Buenos Aires after the fall of the Third Reich. Utilizing friendly contacts in the Catholic Church and the Peron government in Argentina, Eichmann was able to reside in the South American country for 10 years under the alias of Ricardo Klement. He was abducted in 1960 by Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence agency, put on trial in Israel and executed in 1962.

The documents show that the CIA was in possession of Eichmann's pseudonym two years before the Mossad raid. The CIA received this information in 1958 from the West German government, which learned of Eichmann's alias in 1952. Both the CIA and the Bonn government chose not to disclose this information to Israel because they were concerned that Eichmann might reveal the identities of Nazi war criminals holding high office in the West German government, particularly Adenauer's national security adviser Hans Globke.

When Eichmann was finally brought to trial, the US government used all available means to protect its West German allies from what he might reveal. According to the declassified documents, the CIA pressured Life magazine into deleting references to Globke in portions of Eichmann's memoirs that it chose to publish.

In addition to the revelations regarding Eichmann, the documents chronicle the CIA's creation of "stay-behind" intelligence networks in southwestern Germany and Berlin, labeled "Kibitz" and "Pastime," respectively. The Kibitz ring involved several former SS members. In the early 1950s, the CIA provided these groups with money, communications equipment and ammunition so that they could serve as intelligence assets in the event of a Soviet invasion of West Germany.

Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) : Nazi Collaboration with Postwar German Intelligence Agency

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Stepan Bandera - Hero or Nazi Sympathizer

On January 22, 2010 Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko honored Stepan Bandera by posthumously bestowing on him the state honor, "Hero of Ukraine."  The Soviet KGB assassinated Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist-in-exile, in 1959.  Many Ukrainians, including Ukrainian émigré groups in Canada, pressed Yushchenko to grant the honor, which, according to one statement, "would restore justice and truth about the Bandera and the...struggle for liberation that he headed."  To this day, many Ukrainians view Bandera as a martyred freedom fighter.

As an uncompromising leader of the militant, terrorist branch of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), Bandera became a Nazi collaborator who lived with his deputies under German protection after World War II began.  In preparation for the attack on the USSR, the Nazis recruited Bandera's followers to act as Ukrainian-speaking policemen and to serve in two Ukrainian volunteer army battalions.  By working with the Nazis, Bandera hoped to free Ukraine from Soviet rule and establish his own government there.  An independent Ukraine, Bandera promised, would remain friendly to Germany.

Historian Karel Berkhoff, among others, has shown that Bandera, his deputies, and the Nazis shared a key obsession, namely the notion that the Jews in Ukraine were behind Communism and Stalinist imperialism and must be destroyed.  "The Jews of the Soviet Union," read a Banderist statement, "are the most loyal supporters of the Bolshevik Regime and the vanguard of Muscovite imperialism in the Ukraine."  When the Germans invaded the USSR in June 1941 and captured the East Galician capital of Lvov [Lviv in Ukrainian], Bandera's lieutenants issued a declaration of independence in his name.  They further promised to work closely with Hitler, then helped to launch a pogrom that killed four thousand Lvov Jews in a few days, using weapons ranging from guns to metal poles.  "We will lay your heads at Hitler's feet," a Banderist pamphlet proclaimed to Ukrainian Jews.

The Germans intended to keep Ukraine for themselves.  They arrested Bandera for his intransigence on the issue of independence, but released him in 1944 when it appeared that his popularity with Ukrainians might help stem the Soviet advance.  But whatever their disappointment with the Germans, the Banderists never disagreed with their Jewish policy in Ukraine, which eventually killed over 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews.

This is a truth that many in Ukraine, particularly in its western parts, deny.  In his book Erased (2007), Omer Bartov discusses the large bronze statue of Bandera that stands in a park in the east Galician town of Drohobych, most of whose 15,000 Jews were murdered.  The park stands on the site of the town's former Jewish ghetto, but there is not so much as a plaque in the park to memorialize the Jewish dead.  This and other examples like it make a condemnation of Yushchenko's step necessary.

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Lenin beheaded, Bandera erected - Ukraine returning to pre-WWII fascist era collaborating with the West,

But the rest of the story, much of which is revealed in CIA records released in 2007, reveals irony in Yushchenko's award.  After the war Bandera lived in Munich.  British intelligence used him to help run agents into Ukraine to gather intelligence and to help the Ukrainian underground against the Soviets.  The CIA used some of Bandera's former cronies for similar reasons, but never used Bandera himself, owing to Bandera's infatuation with his own legend.  "Bandera," said one CIA report from 1948, "is by nature a political intransigent of great personal ambition [who] has...opposed all political organizations in the emigration which favor a representative form of government in the Ukraine, as opposed to a mono-party, OUN/Bandera regime."

About the author: Norman J.W. Goda is Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida. His most recent book is Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War (2007), and is co-author of US Intelligence and the Nazis (2005).

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A well known historical fact about Nazi collaborator Pieter Menten in East Galicia. He was unmasked by journalist Hans Knoop and his trial in The Hague brought many facts about local pogroms and executions of the Jewish population. The Ukrainians in Lviv played a major role of collaboration with the Nazis. The defense attorney Van Heijningen was well known to me. There was major media coverage of Pieter Menten's trial in The Hague.

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The footage shown by The Guardian spliced together segments which has no proven role they belong together. I found the footage taken of the protesters as they try to move forward from Independence Square towards police lines which had cordoned off government buildings along Instytutska Street. The bridge in the video leads to International Center of Culture and Arts of the trade unions of the Ukraine. Google street map of location here. Events must have taken place on Thursday 20 February 2014.

Original footage of sniper incident, filmed from area near bridge from which the protesters moved forward towards lines of riot police.

Революцiя Україна Київ Контратака Майдану вул.Інститутськ& #1072; [41min 05sec] <4 days ago> published 20 Feb. 2014

Події в м. Київі на вул. Інститутській 20 лютого 2014 року. З 19:27 за кадром можна чути коментатора російського телеканалу. Коментарі, як то кажуть, зайві...

Eldar Nagorniy: Смотрите все. Думайте. Анализируйте кадры. СМОТРИТЕ ВСЕ!
c 02:55 минуты: расстреливают из калашей
с 12:30 расстреливают людей без огнестрельного оружия
с 14:00 минуты - расстреливают тех, кто пытается просто утащить раненных и мертвых
16:48 наповал
17:08 гора трупов просто гора
19:35 "Добрый день коллеги! Мы находимся на самом острие атаки экстремистов - с русским акцентом". Вокруг трупы, раненные. Экстремисты, блядь
22:00 минута - убивают людей, явно без огнестрельного оружия. Явно не идущих вперед
с 29:00 минуты - контратака Майдановцев. И заметьте, снова ни одного выстрела со стороны протестующих
31:15 попадают в человека, который УБЕГАЕТ с передовой, метров за 30 от нее. Т.е. не нападает, не стреляет в ответ
31:50 протестующий с флагом на спине. Надпись на флаге: Днепропетровск. Бендеровец-фаши& #1089;т-западенец.
37:00 минута - медик поднимает руки, кричит: "Дайте перенести раненных!" и идет во весь рост вперед
37:45 свяшенник с щитом и каской
37:55 повели этого медика. Похоже, раненного в шею. Мне кажется, я видел фото этого момента в анфас. Ранение в шею, но выжила
40:00 минута - люди, наконец, укрылись за дымом от горящих покрышек
40:55 захватили таки плацдарм. Но боже, какой ценой!

Revolution Ukraine Kyiv Maidan counterattack vul.Instytutska [41min 05sec] <4 days ago> published 20 Feb. 2014 [Google translation]

Events in Kiev along Instytutska street, 20 February, 2014. From 19:27 overs can hear the commentator Russian TV channel. Comments, as they say, too many ...

Eldar Nagorniy: Smotryte all. Think. Analyzing kadrы. SMOTRYTE EVERYTHING!
At 02:55 minutes: shot of Kalash
12:30 shoot people without firearms
14:00 minutes - shoot those who try to simply drag the wounded and the dead
16:48 spot
17:08 just a mountain a mountain of corpses
19:35 "Hello colleagues, We're at the point of attack of extremists - with a Russian accent." Around the corpses, wounded. Extremists whore
22:00 minute - kill people , apparently without firearms. Clearly not going forward
At 29:00 minutes - Maydanovtsev counterattack . And note again a single shot by protesters
31:15 enter the person who runs away from the front , 30 meters away. Ie do not attack , do not shoot back
31:50 protester with the flag on the back. The inscription on the flag : Dnipropetrovsk . Benderovets - fascist zapadenets .
37:00 min - Medic raises his arms , shouting , "Give to transfer the wounded ! " and goes forward at full length
37:45 svyashennik with shield and helmet
37:55 took this medic. It looks like the wounded in the neck. I think I saw a photo of that moment from the front . Wounded in the neck, but survived
40:00 minute - people are finally hid behind the smoke from burning tires
40:55 still captured a bridgehead . But oh , what a price!

The video was uploaded by an organization named ZFront Kharkov UA - link to all YouTube uploads here.

The green emblem used can be found here: A Public Appeal of the NGO "The Green Front" from Kharkiv, Ukraine to Ecological Activists and political officials in Ukraine, Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and other countries.

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Photo's of police with yellow armbands were released on a phony website: "Украинской правды" which translates as "Ukraine's Pravda." Link to wensite with photo's and the original version of RadioSvoboda.org video footage here. [These same photo's I saw released on right wing blog in US]

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This facebook page Euromaidan also released the RadioSvoboda.org footage. Full chronicle of EuroMaidan in Ukraine in English
Site: http://maidan.in.ua/. Appears to be a conduit for propaganda.

From WhoIs info:
IP address or host name: pravda.com.ua
person-loc Алена Притула
e-mail pravda@svitonline.com
address n/a
address-loc ул.Кирова 18/3 кв.7
address-loc Симферополь
country-loc UA
phone +380.442298269

Алена Притула  ул.Кирова 18/3 кв.7  Симферополь  UA  +380.442298269
Alain Prytula ul.Kyrova 18/3 kv.7 Simferopol UA

Raider seizure "Ukrainian Truth" - whether the government's fault?
Media and advertising, September 4, 2013, 16:46

"Whether the government engaged in provocations against" Ukrainian Truth "? Waiting for an answer" - such an editorial appeared on the popular site pravda.com.ua.  Who is behind the provocation, and where does the power?

After all websites with all their content are on the border of the legal field of Ukraine.  Officially to register can only print media.  A popular site with a domain pravda.com.ua is not.

Official owner of the domain is pravda.com.ua Olena Prytula Kirova 18/3 kv.7, Simferopol (source: https://www.hostmaster.ua).  Most likely, she for some reason did not attended to ensure the legitimacy of media ownership called "Ukrainian Truth".

Therefore, the title of an editorial UP "whether the government engaged in provocations against" Ukrainian Truth "?"  - Paranoia in its purest form.  Do not need to mindlessly throw accusations of "provocations" "fraud." Manual UP own fault that the media did not register in time under its own brand.  And now only the power, but rather its judicial branch, can help protect this brand.

Honestly, it would be better attended to investigate who is behind this newspaper "Ukrainian Truth".  For this example, you can call the telephone number provided in the registration data of its publisher - Open-news has the same name.  Or stop by for a visit at the same place.  But it is difficult.  Much easier "on the machine" rush usual baseless allegations ...

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@somebody #73 : One can see a major representation of the older generation participating in the violent demonstrations and occupation of Independence Square. One renowned militia, Aleksandr Musytschko, had fought in Chechnya and in the Ossetian War of 2008 against the Soviets Russians. I recall in the sixties, Polish immigrants in the US send their first borns to fight the commies in Vietnam. Hatred of occupation accompanied with atrocities leave deep scars for decades. IMO the differences between East and West in the Ukraine cannot be reconciled through more violence.

NY Times and other media reported about the "lad from  Lvov" [Lviv in Ukrainian] and now seen as a hero. Not surprised, the "lad" came with an arms haul from a government military depot.

○  Jewish history and the city of Lvov in western Ukraine

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Early this morning, someone in this organisation linked to my article via entry page google.cz. Nice to know the search engine leads to readership over @BooMan ...
Foreign Police - Olšanská 2  Praha 3, Chech republic [first building from intersection]

○ Location via Google maps

Cross-posted from my diary @BooMan.

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Everything you know about Ukraine is wrong  by Mark Ames

(Pando Daily) Feb. 24, 2014 - Although I'm deep into the reporting of my next story about the Silicon Valley Techtopus, it's hard for me not to get distracted by events in Ukraine and Russia.

I haven't lived in that part of the world since the Kremlin ran me out of town, so I'm not going to pretend that I know as much as those on the ground there. Still, I've been driven nuts by the avalanche of overconfident ignorance that stands for analysis or commentary on the wild events there. A lethal ignorance, a virtuous ignorance.

Virtuous ignorance about world affairs used to be the exclusive domain of neo-con pundits, but now it's everywhere, especially rampant on the counter-consensus side -- nominally my own side, but an increasingly shitty side to be on.

Nearly everyone here in the US tries to frame and reify Ukraine's dynamic to fit America-centric spats. As such, Ukraine's problems are little more than a propaganda proxy war where our own political fights are transferred to Ukraine's and Russia's context, warping the truth to score domestic spat points. That's nothing new, of course, but it's still jarring to watch how the "new media" counter-consensus is warping and misrepresenting reality in Ukraine about as crudely as the neocons and neoliberals used to warp and Americanize the political realities there back when I first started my Moscow newspaper, The eXile. So, yes, I wanted to comment on a few simplifications/misconceptions about Ukraine today.

The unlikely life and sudden death of The eXile, Russia's angriest newspaper

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Of course, these events are just part of the Maidan celebration ...

Ukrainian Jews seek urgent help from Israel

Rabbi Menachem Margolin, director-general of the European Jewish Association (EJA), has urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon to urgently send security forces to the Jewish communities in Ukraine, which he says are suffering from a "growing wave of anti-Semitic attacks."

Margolin voiced his concern that the anti-Semitic activity in the eastern European country would escalate to the point of claiming lives.

'It's time for the State of Israel to intervene'

"The complicated challenge in taking security measures in a foreign sovereign country is clear," Rabbi Margolin wrote to Netanyahu and Ya'alon, "but this is an emergency. On behalf of the Jews of Ukraine, the Rabbinical Center of Europe and the European Jewish Association, I urge you to take every possible step, including dispatching security guards to secure the safety of Jewish communities in Ukraine, until the danger has passed."

Acting Ukraine President Oleksander Tuchynov has pledged to end the anarchy of recent months

○ Russia and Israel have same shared values [Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein]

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Unidentified armed men at Crimea airports in Ukraine (Video)

(DW) - Ukraine's interior minister has said the Russian military are blocking an airport in Crimea's Sevastopol calling it an "armed invasion." Unidentified armed men have also been seen patrolling the Simferopol airport.

Separately, dozens of unidentified armed men dressed in military uniforms were seen patrolling the airport at Simferopol, Crimea's capital early on Friday morning.

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See differences between unidentified military and Ukrainian security forces (Getty images)

The men, who refused to talk to journalists [see video for brief interview], did not move into the passenger terminal and appeared to be allowing the airport to function normally, the RIA-Novosti news agency quoted a worker at the airport as saying. Their uniforms were without military insignias and it was not immediately clear who they were.

Alexey Yaroshevsky twitter: Looks like militia, not Russian Army

○ RT: 'No takeover' at Crimean capital's airport, 'self-defense squads'
○ BBC: Duma to fast-track new laws to ease annexation Ukrainian territory [Disclaimer for veracity of BBC report - propaganda ;-)]

Cross-posted from my diary @BooMan - Miscalculation May Lead to A New Crimean War.

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Bus service from Krasnodar suspended in Crimea

(InterFax) Feb. 28, 2014 - Delivery of passengers to Odessa through Rostov-on-Don. "Movement in Crimea until closed, another bus to Odessa recovering today at 20:05 via Rostov," - said in a reference. Bus service to the cities of Crimea, as well as with Odessa from Krasnodar was carried out through the port customs post "Caucasus" and the ferry across the Kerch Strait.

Earlier, some media reported the closure of the Strait of Kerch ferry.  In particular, there were reports that the closure of this transport route is initiated by the Ukrainian side, and therefore canceled bus services from the cities of Krasnodar Region of the Russian Federation in Simferopol, Kerch, Feodosia, Yalta, Sevastopol, Odessa and Tiraspol.

Бельбек - Bel'bek in southwestern Crimea

Russian military surround Ukrainian border guard post in Crimea

BALAKLAVA, Ukraine (Reuters) Feb 28, 2014 - At least 20 men wearing the uniform of Russia's Black Sea fleet and carrying automatic rifles surrounded a Ukrainian border guard post, in a tense standoff near the port city of Sevastopol in Ukraine's Crimea region.

A Reuters reporter in the Balaklava district saw Ukrainian border police in helmets and riot gear shut inside the border post, with a metal gate pulled shut and metal riot shields placed behind the windows as protection.

A servicemen who identified himself as an officer of the Black Sea Fleet told Reuters: "We are here ... so as not to have a repeat of the Maidan." He was referring to Kiev's Independence Square, the cradle of a popular uprising that ousted President Viktor Yanukovich.

The servicemen's presence appeared to confirm the veracity of a statement by the Ukrainian border guard service that Russian servicemen were blocking off a unit of Ukrainian border guards in Balaklava.

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Group of military helicopters seen flying towards seized Crimean military airport in Ukraine

(ITV News) - Amateur video shows 11 military helicopters flying towards Sevastopol's Belbek airport (UKS) at 8.04 GMT this morning. The footage was filmed in the village of Chervone north of the military airport heading south towards Sevastopol.

Crimea's main airport 'not allowing flights from Kiev'  

Pro-Russia separatists flex muscles in Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula

(WaPo) - A spokesman for the Black Sea Fleet denied the reports that its troops are involved in blocking the Belbek airfield, according to the Interfax news agency.

"No subdivision of the Black Sea Fleet has been advanced into the Belbek area, let alone involved in blocking it," the spokesman said. "Given the unstable situation around the Black Sea Fleet bases in the Crimea, and the places where our service members live with their families, security has been stepped by the Black Sea Fleet's anti-terror units."

A Crimea news Web site, Argumenty Nedeli Krym, reported that the armed men carried M-4 assault rifles. "As journalists attempted to approach them, one of the servicemen warned that they would shoot to kill," the Web site said.

○ JPost: Military airport Belbek in Crimea seized by Russian servicemen

Originally posted @BooMan - Miscalculation May Lead to A New Crimean War.

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This diary is a highly informative and interesting revelation about the extent of anti-Semitism in eastern Europe in the 1930s that continued after the war. How could Walensa win election for Prime Minister of Poland on grounds that his opponent was half-Jewish if it were otherwise. Culpability for the Holocaust goes well beyond the Nazis.

Thanks.

What's happening in Crimea - LIVE! [Russian] [English via Google]

In Crimea, the confrontation between the supporters of the current central government and pro-Russian organizations in Ukraine, which it does not recognize the autonomy and require adherence to Russia.  Yesterday morning, a group of unidentified armed with rifles and machine guns seized the building of the Verkhovna Rada of the Crimea and the Council of Ministers of autonomy.

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19:31 Russian Consulate General in Simferopol ordered to take action to start issuing Russian passports to the staff of "Berkut".  This is stated in a statement posted Friday evening on page Foreign Ministry to Facebook.

○ Armed men tried to capture the airfield in Novofedorovka
○ BBC: Duma to fast-track new laws to ease annexation Ukrainian territory [Disclaimer for veracity of BBC report - western propaganda ;-)]

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The suggestion by US Radio Free Europe that the sniper activities around February 20 were the responsibility of the Ukrainian Berkut under Minister of Interior was false and pure fabricated propaganda. The video in question was most likely filmed during the November 29 and 30 uprising. The Russian article below was published on February 24, 2014 and has photo of militia, a screenshot of RasioSvoboda.org. However, the article was originally published in English at an earlier date - Is bloody KGB plan of Ukraine's collapse carried out? Written by: Валерій Дротенко and published on 08.12.2013.

Massacre in Kiev: snipers and thugs "titushkis" work for money OPG

(Censor.net.ua) Feb. 24, 2014 - Detained activists Self person Sergey Pankov (presumably - sniper), together with Mikhail Sapova working on gang "titushkis", which is led by Alexey Chebotarev, it became known from informed sources .

Задержанный активистами Самообороны человек Сергей Паньков (предположитель& #1085;о - снайпер), вместе с Михаилом Саповым работает на банду «Лешиков», лидером которой является Алексей Чеботарев, об этом стало известно из информированны&# 1093; источников. ОПГ Чеботарева

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Источник crime.in.ua в МВД утверждает, что кровавый разгон Майдана в ночь с 29-е на 30-е ноября [bloody crackdown on Maidan on the night of the 29th to November 30th] и воскресные события на Банковой были спровоцированы бандитами Чеботарева и профинансирова&# 1085;ы «черным налом» его ОПГ, полученного им за крышевание рынка «паленой» водки и контрабанду спирта.

Is bloody KGB plan of Ukraine's collapse carried out? Written by: Валерій Дротенко and published on 08.12.2013.

The original name of this article was Is bloody KGB plan of Ukraine's collapse carried out by Ukrainian Security Service General Gandzha and criminal Chebotarev?

Several days ago, the opposition MPs, Lieuteant-General Gennady Moskal, Colonel-General Nikolai Palamarchuck and Lieutenant-General Vitaly Yarema spoke about overheard preparations for provocations to be held on Maidan. According to the information from retired generals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are several gangs of 5-7 thousand of so-called "titushky" concentrated near Kiev. Titusky (termed after the surname of a notorious gangster Vadym Titushok, who's beaten journalists during earlier protests rally in Kyiv, being covered by government and never jailed for that) are government sponsored hooligans. These gangs are backed up by Alexey Chebotarev, "a person who sells alcohol and is on friendly terms with Zaharchenko".

Our editorial staff has received the confirmation of these data from Palamarchuk and Yarema from the competent source, which, of course, wished to remain anonymous. The inside story is as follows. Deliberately bloody crackdown on Maidan on the night of November 29th to 30th  and Sunday events on the Bankova Street were provoked by Chebotarev's bandits and funded by "black cash" from Chebotarev's gang which was received for market protection of counterfeit vodka and alcohol smuggling.  The same source covers "unofficial bonuses" of Berkut fighters and of Special Forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Chebotarev himself is backed up by his curator at Ukrainian Security Service, Head of National Statehood Protection, General Sergei V. Gandzha.

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Russia and Ukraine feud over carnage? Why isn't this massacre in overthrow of Yanukovich a concern of human rights for the European Union, the US government and members of US Congress? Collateral damage, just move along, nothing here to see ...

Russia, Ukraine feud over sniper carnage

KIEV, Ukraine (AP/WaPo) -- One of the biggest mysteries hanging over the protest mayhem that drove Ukraine's president from power: Who was behind the snipers who sowed death and terror in Kiev?

That riddle has become the latest flashpoint of feuding over Ukraine -- with the nation's fledgling government and the Kremlin giving starkly different interpretations of events that could either undermine or bolster the legitimacy of the new rulers.

See also comments in my latest diary - SBU Intercepts Ashton's Phonecall; Maidan Sniper Attack.

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WTF?USA military mercenary BlackWater in Ukraine (Donetsk)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlHbrdYsD7E
That should be expected...but this can only give Russians the reason to openly widen their protection of Russian speaking people further from Crimea...

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