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- -8- CHAPTER V "Bombers and Killers" By way of introducing the OD, a Ukrainian terrorist organization, the authors mention the Norman [iller and Arthur Fried Kianaping Cases, which occurred in 1938. They erroneously state that Norman Mi 3 i tion which lead to the Ukrainian National Home and state that the police conducted {he raid on November 2, 1936 which resulted in the solution of the Frieo and -iller ficmaping Cases and the apprenension of Demetrius Cula and Joseph Sacoda. "One hishly significant fact not mentions. at the trial was that Gula and Sacoda were Doth members of a Berlin-directec Ukrainian terrorist organization Znowm as the Obw. At the time no one thou-nt oi connecting these brutal _kionappers with the fazi espionage~sabotaze machine in the United States. The Berlin-directed OUI again hovered just behind the headlines when, early in 1941, a Ukrainian-Anerican captain in the United States Army was cour’ martiale and deprived of his comission for betraying conticential information to a loreign agent. This captain was tne leader of an TU unit in Pennsylvania. The foreisn agent in the casé had been Omelian Senyk-Gribiwisky, a Ukrainian terrorist who had come from Berlin in 1931 to found the Oni in the United States." There are close to one million Jkrainian-Americans in the United States. The overwhelming majority of them are ,ro-denocratic; but a °) giphile minority make uf sDwu and the Ketman, two of tie most dangerous espiona e~sabotaye or, zations ir the oF the world, The ODU operates under the supervision of Colonel ‘Walther Nicolaits Sectior IIB, German Vilitary Intelligence, The Hetman operates under th2 supervision of Alfred Kosenberg's Aussen- politisches Amt, Foreign Political Office of the liazi party. Both the ODwU and the Hetman are international organizations with branch throuzhoat Europe, ASia and .orth and South America. Taeir activities include sry sabotaging, spreading pro-Axis propazanda and, not infrequently, committing assassinations. Tne bnibed States leaders o: the Ob. and Hetman have been in resula: commmication with Cersan, Japanese and Italian agents, and with spics in South and Central America. Colonel Eugene Konovaletz who had served with the Kaiser's armies of occupation in the Ukraine and who had earned con: erable notoriety as a rapist and killer was chosen to head an international Fifth column, commonly referred to as the QUN(Organization of Ukrainian Wlationalists) wnerever there are Ukrainian communi tes, ‘whether in Soviet Russia, Soutn America or the United States, Yonovaletz's emissaries Zraveled at the excense of tne cerman Government anc estavlisnec_OJN cells. Special schools for OWN members were opened in Sermany where the students were carefally trained in the arts of espionaze, sabotage a: assassination. the OU students were taught the various methocs of stealing nilitary secre aking combs, Slowing up iactories and carrying out .olitical murders, Courses in rular German arny training were also part of the curriculum, ‘he first of these . ee schools was estaolishea in Danzig around 1928.