Project AERODYNAMIC

 Project AERODYNAMIC

Date	1949 - 1970
Location	Ukraine
Perpetrators	CIA
Type	•  Covert warfare •  Proxy war
Interests	• Ukraine • Russia
Description	Program to provide funding and equipment for anti-Soviet resistance groups in Ukraine

Project AERODYNAMIC was a covert program to provide funding and equipment for such anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance groups as the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (UHVR); its affiliates, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).

The purpose of Project AERODYNAMIC is to provide for the exploitation and expansion of the Anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance movement for cold war and hot war purposes. Such groups as the Ukrainian Supreme Council of Liberation (UHVR), its military adjunct, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), all in the Ukraine, the Foreign Representation of the Supreme Council of Liberation (ZPUHVR) in Western Europe and the United States, and other Ukrainian organizations such as the Foreign Sections of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (ZchOUN), etc., will be utilized.

In 1970, AERODYNAMIC was redesignated to QRPLUMB / QRDYNAMIC, which ran to 1991.

Exposure

In January 2021, Yahoo reported, without naming a specific project, that "going back decades, the CIA has provided limited training to Ukrainian intelligence units to try and shore up an independent Kyiv and prevent Russian subversion]]

 

An example

Page name	Description
Ukraine/Death squad	Ukrainian death squads carry out extrajudicial killings and torture.

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