On June 22, 1955, an
internal report made to CIA’s Chief of Foreign Intelligence (FI) gave an
evaluation of its ongoing projects involving Ukraine. The cryptonym was
AERODYNAMIC. Excerpts from the evaluation report included:
In 1948 a survey was conducted by CIA of the various Ukrainian Emigre organizations for the purpose of selecting from among these groups the most bona fide, best organized, most representative, legitimate, etc. group to be used in exploiting the Ukrainian Resistance Movement in the Ukraine in anti-Soviet activity.
As a result of this survey, the ZPUHVR (the Foreign Representation of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council-- Українська головна визвольна рада) was selected and an agreement was entered into between it and CIA whereby a joint effort would be made to develop operations into the Ukraine, the ZPUHVR to supply agent personnel, contact and other operational data, etc., and CIA to furnish the technical support, i.e., training facilities, supplies, air dispatch, communications equipment, etc.
Following this initial working agreement with the ZPUHVR, Project AERODYNAMIC was further developed to,
· Provide supplies through airdrops to the Ukrainian Resistance to enable it to expand its organization and hot war potential.
· Provide supplies and communication equipment for burial by the Ukrainian Resistance Forces for use in a hot war.
· Coordinate with the Ukrainian Resistance war plans for sabotage, escape and evasion, and guerilla warfare.
· Maintain adequate communications with the Ukrainian Resistance Forces via overland couriers, wireless transmission /W/T) and secret writing (S/W).
· Train and infiltrate agents to Ukraine for intelligence gathering purposes.
The evaluation highlighted previous CIA contacts with the Resistance Movement:
1. Airdrop of agent personnel into Ukraine was made in 1949 but no contact with Ukrainian Resistance Forces was realized.
2. Airdrop of agent personnel was made in 1950 with contact with Resistance Forces Headquarters established.
3. One successful overland courier mission from Ukraine to the West was accomplished in 1950 that provided material from the Underground that contained valuable intelligence to CIA
4. Airdrop of agent personnel was made in 1951 resulting in successful contact with Resistance Headquarters and subsequent W/T communications which continued to the all of 1953
5. Airdrop of agent personnel was made in 1952 resulting in successful contact with Resistance Headquarters and subsequent WIT and S/W.
Through a concentrated effort, the MVD (Soviet Security Service) apparently has dealt a serious blow to the Ukrainian Resistance Movement and especially to our operations and is now engaged in attempting to penetrate the ZPUHVR via its agents for the purpose of building up a notional underground which it would control.
In 1970, AERODYNAMIC was redesignated QRPLUMB,
and CIA support for ZPUHVR lasted until 1991.
