“The purpose of Project AERODYNAMIC is to provide for the exploitation and expansion of the anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance for cold war and hot war purposes,” the formerly top secret document dated July 13, 1953 says of the project.

“Such groups as the Ukrainian Supreme Council of Liberation (UHVR) and its Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN), the Foreign Representation of the Ukrainian Supreme Council of Liberation (ZPUHVR) in Western Europe and the United States, and other organizations such as the OUN/B will be utilized,” the document continued.

The CIA documents show that under the AERODYNAMIC program the CIA operated an affiliate project codenamed CAPACHO where the CIA setting up a propaganda company in Manhattan that “catered to printing and publishing anti-Soviet ZPUHVR literature that would be smuggled into Ukraine.”

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/US-Tried-to-Impose-Nazi-Leader-on-Ukraine-in-WWII-CIA-Leak--20160523-0003.html

Fun fact the telesur page is from 2016, not 2023

Also fun fact this was dated 5 months after the death of :stalin-pipe: .

  • culpritus [any]
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    CAPACHO

    I believe this project funded the publishing houses that popularized the Holodomor nazi propaganda to most of the anglosphere. They were specifically trying to make the famine into a worse genocide than the Holocaust for pretty explicitly anti-communist purposes. There's an article from the late 80s in the Village Voice (iirc) that details a lot of that.

    found it, orig published date of January 12, 1988: https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/11/21/in-search-of-a-soviet-holocaust/