The Assassination of Stepan Bandera: The Secret Mission of kgb Agent “Liuks”

Immediately after Stepan Bandera’s assassination on October 15, 1959, in Munich, the kgb of the ussr launched a large-scale disinformation campaign aimed at misleading the international community regarding the circumstances of this high-profile crime, as well as its masterminds and perpetrators. One of those involved at every stage of this special operation – monitoring the OUN leader, creating conditions for his liquidation, and diverting attention from the real killer – was an agent codenamed “Liuks”, who had been recruited back in 1932. This is revealed in previously unknown documents from the archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine.

On Friday, October 13, 1961, in East Berlin, the Press Office of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic – but in reality the East German secret police, the Stasi in collaboration with the kgb of the ussr, urgently convened a press conference at which journalists were promised the release of new, sensational information regarding the circumstances of Stepan Bandera’s assassination two years earlier. The haste was explained by the fact that Bohdan Stashynskyi had fled to West Berlin two months earlier. Officials in moscow feared that he might confess to the police that he had committed the murder on orders from the kgb. The soviet leadership urgently needed, once again, to divert suspicion from itself and throw the international press off the trail. Stepan Lipolts, who was supposedly a direct witness to and participant in the events of that time, was chosen for this manipulation.

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