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., . • Bandera1s deethalarmed all the Ukrainians living in Bunich, iverybodY still rememberathe "Sprenget.off-Attentat" of the loader of the Slovak , Underv.ound.c. Party ,. Motet apiraa, In kOril 1958, which re , Lod in his death too. -
20,1959' SANTIBRA ;ZED Cf c:TaKIBE - OF PtiTASSIUM , , • , MDRet.",-.c.,.;111E? EMICEANTS, •SUSFUT TOtITICAL MURDER
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• Hunich, Oat. 19 (AP). The Mo.i .41 4er -e4 grent leader' died of cyanide of .: potassium, for relecsing the post marten inforiaOtion on . Nohday9:the :Beach homlcide squad stated • that ieVeatigatiche are under way to determine whether . murder or'seicide led to.Baadera l s death. While ,the police hinted that Br*tra' dgh baxrC takerethe quickly hating poison himself, „ the Ukrobilan Informaticn Agency declared its Lina convIctiO that this was ,a murder. j- - Thursday last week the emibrant leader entered in his ear the court-yard of therOinich apartment house where he lived under the alias of....OPEL. toatrary, to his 14161 praclAcep he dismissed his body guard 'when enteing the staircase. Shortly ther . refter he was found lying on the Stairs aud was brought to a hespital. The police are of the opinion thot . Bendera must have taken the poison which works to five or at the most tea eeconds,atherin.the car or an the staircape. It was found in his stomach and there are no zither ways of trsee,nitting•. Ha was declared dead when admitted to the hoepital, • The Ukiminian'-1,nformation Ageneyeuapects that Bandera was attac ed in the staircTee by several men who might have put the cyanide of potassium in hirxmouth. . Chief editor of "TLe Way To Victory"„ LLUNIK 9 Bandera l s deputy, voiced. the opinion that the murderer might be sought among the hundred members of a Ukrainian dance and song enaomble which is presently touring the Federal Republic. bennik pointed-out that as advance group of the artist - ensemble was in :1unich On the day of Sredera g e death. Lennik further stated that the'ealgraht organization had been warned tuo weeks ago tat an attempt at Noderes2ifo was plomned. Thereupon the body guard of the emigrant leader was immreased. "14e are sure theywere Bolsheviks", Le:mak said.. &Indere was never inaZiti to, commit suicide. On Thureday he was in high spirits and would have preferred to "die Sightineep A search of the ,46/G files reflect no information on Berateramdar either name. A book writteriaiiaelirinstrong, entitled "44airOep NatIonaliere 1939 1945" and publlahed by the COlumnia UelineirLty Prone in 1955 contans maw references to Random and the Bandera llrivsm(sito For additional information ace Despatch No. 130, Oct. 23. 1959. Tj UcFI IN aiARCII, ust; 'i j akc, ' Cox
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