Yaroslav Haivas. Prominent OUN Figure, Intelligence Officer, Journalist

At various points in his life, Yaroslav Haivas served as Roman Shukhevych’s deputy in the Self-Defense Committee; during the German-soviet War, he led one of the OUN-M’s expeditionary groups in the occupied territories of soviet Ukraine, later headed the Provid of the Central East of Ukraine, and during 1944–1945 even served as acting leader of the OUN. After the war, he headed the OUN’s intelligence service, then edited the newspapers “Svoboda” and “Shlyakh Peremohy”, and wrote a series of books about his participation in the liberation struggle. His activities were constantly monitored by the nkvd/kgb, as evidenced by a three-volume case file held in the archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine.

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