It also had to do with the company the CIA now kept. Sichel found particularly repellent the Agency’s embrace of Ukrainian exiles joined under the banner of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, or OUN. Sichel was not some pious naïf. He had understood the need to work in Germany with former members of the Nazi regime. He had even accepted the need to work with some of the more unsavory émigré leaders, men who had embraced fascism and collaborated with the Germans in the war. But the OUN was a step too far, its past crimes too well documented, its plans for a future “liberated” Ukraine
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