Excerpts from a declassified April 1953 CIA Internal Report entitled “Ukrainian Resistance”:
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was created in 1942-1943 for the purpose of fighting the Nazis and for the protection of the Ukrainian population. It is the military force of the underground government of the Ukrainian Supreme Council of Liberation (UHVR). The UPA represents the only important resistance group operating at present in the Ukrainian SSR.
The
numerical strength of the Ukrainian Underground Resistance Movement today is
considerably reduced from what it was at the close of World War II, when it numbered in the tens of thousands
and even, according to some figures, 100,000 active armed members.
A fair estimate of the number of illegal-living armed partisans within the Western Oblasts of the Ukraine is 1,000 men and it is certain that many more live legally and maintain some sort of contact with the illegal-living underground units.
It is anticipated that by Fall, 1953, CIA will have been able to establish basis of its future relation with the Ukrainian underground.
Ukrainian Resistance Forces Killed in Action:
The following is a compilation of known insurgents killed in Ukraine between 1944 and 1950. These figures are not complete, but will give some indication of the amount of underground activity which took place during this period:
Area 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
Kozlovski Raion 26 7 3 13 4
Mikulinetski 28 34 8 11 8
Veliko-Borkovski Raion 22 37 21 8 8
Veliko-Glubochetsk Raion 43 40 37 14 16
Zalozhtsevski Raion 40 72 34 9 23
Zborovski Raion 34 105 13 7 5
Bukachevski Raion 5 3
Burshtyanksi Rion 2 1
Peremyshlyani Raion 8 2
Bogatinski Raion 10 6
Vilaivski Raion 8 1
“Armed clashes with Soviet Security Forces took place in the following areas. In each case an average of five UPA partisans were involved: Drohobych Raion, Pidbuzh Raion, Samborski Raion, Turka Raion, Strilkiv Raion, Rozhnitiv Raion, Wygoda Raion.”
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