Mykola Lebed, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mykola Lebed

Ukrainian Nazi collaborator

Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1909

Place of Birth: Galicia, Ukraine

Date of Death: 18-Jul-1998

Profession: politician

Nationality: United States, Poland

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Mykola Lebed (Ukrainian: ?????? ????????? ?????? or ??´????; January 11, 1909 – July 18, 1998), also known as Maksym Ruban, Marko or Yevhen Skyrba, was a Ukrainian political activist, Ukrainian nationalist, and guerrilla fighter.
He was among those tried, convicted, and imprisoned for the murder of Polish Interior Minister Bronislaw Pieracki, in 1934.
The court sentenced him to death, but the state commuted the sentence to life imprisonment.
He escaped when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939.
As leader of OUN-B he is responsible for the genocide of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.In 1949 he emigrated to the United States and lived in New York.
Through Prolog Research Corporation, his Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) funded organization, he gathered intelligence on the Soviet Union as late as into the late 1960s.
The CIA project name for the operation was AERODYNAMIC.
In 1991, the CIA still considered him a valuable asset.
Federal investigators would consider Lebed a possible war criminal but did not pursue prosecution.
He died in 1998.