MILLION REICHSMARKS FOR ROOSEVELT’S ASSASSINATION.
Who was behind the failed terroristic act of the Ukrainian fascists?

In summer of 2008 Toronto University employee PhD Ivan Kachanovsky published sensational information from the Franklin Roosevelt archives. According to it, in 1941-42 FBI agents, U. S. Presidential Intelligence Service and the U. S. Presidential Security Service were seeking for the OUN¹ agents, sent to the USA by the Third Reich.

Sensational exposure

In summer of 2008 Toronto University employee PhD Ivan Kachanovsky published sensational information from the Franklin Roosevelt archives. According to it, in 1941-42 FBI agents, U. S. Presidential Intelligence Service and the U. S. Presidential Security Service were seeking for the OUN agents, sent to the USA by the Third Reich.

Historian also published the corresponding material at the bilingual Ukrainian "Correspondent" web-site. After that, another Ukrainian resource "Fraza²" has also published the detailed article of the Canadian scientist, having added the photocopies of the sensational documents. It’s quite curious that according to this document, American special services describe OUN as the "Ukrainian terrorist organization plotting against the USA along with the Nazi".

Kachanovsky is a Northern-American historian of the Ukrainian origin who sticks to the liberal political views. The Ukraine in the Soviet and post-Soviet time is the object of his studies. He — just like thousands of his colleagues — is tirelessly exposing the "totalitarian Communist regime" and its "crimes" against the Ukrainian nation. That’s why he would hardly forge the documents discrediting the "fighters for independence" in the eyes of the Western society. Thus, his revelations are especially valuable.

Documents published by Kachanovsky became quite famous for the last one and a half years. However, many things still remain unclear. And the most important of them is who was behind the Ukrainian terrorists.

"Heroes of the independent Ukraine" are the professional assassins

According to the data, obtained by American special services — including the information from their informants at the pro-fascist organizations of the Eastern Europe — press attaché of the German embassy in Argentina (certain Zinser) has organized a group of the Ukrainian terrorists who were charged with a mission to kill the U. S. President F. Roosevelt. One million Reichsmarks were promised for this order. Gregory Matseyko headed the group — in 1934 he murdered Bronislav Pieracky, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs due to the Bandera’s order. Nicolay Lebed and Darya Gnatkovskaya — convicted by the Polish court for the same crime and later liberated from the Polish prison by the Germans — also were the members of the terrorist group.

Special services’ reports denoted that earlier Zinser used to work at the countries of Central America and — also using the assistance of the Ukrainian terrorists — he tried to organize series of diversions in order to disable functioning of the Panama Canal. His suspicious activity was the reason why he was banished from Guatemala and Honduras. At first Matseyko’s attempted to infiltrate the USA from the Honduras territory. After his failure Zinser settled in Argentina, continuing his activity of masterminding the terroristic acts against the United States of America. American intelligence characterized Zinser as a Gestapo assistant. Considering the executioners of the prepared act of terror, we can make an initial conclusion that they were Melnik’s men. This, however, raises some doubts.

Documents only mention that after the liberation from Polish prison, terrorists have immediately (and definitely not without German aid) communicated with Melnik —OUN leader who was in Rome at the time. Liberation might have taken place only after the occupation of Poland i. e. in the end of 1939. In that period of time Andrii Melnik was the only OUN leader. Splitting of the organization into two — headed accordingly by Melnik and Stepan Bandera — happened in the February of 1940. Considering the fact that Matseyko and his henchmen were Bandera’s associates in the past, we have to assume that they’ve remained to be his adherents subsequently.

Unfortunately, published documents shed little light to what specific Nazi special service stood behind the Roosevelt assassination plan. The remark that Zinser worked for Gestapo gives us almost nothing. We are aware that it always was the German military intelligence (Abwehr) — headed by Wilhelm Canaris — that had the most solid connections with the Ukrainian nationalists. Let’s denote the fact that it had thoroughly supervised both OUN branches — Melnik’s and Bandera’s one.

Now let’s recall that Canaris was, in fact, the head of the illegal führer’s opposition at the top brass of the Third Reich. It was he who held the strings of the various conspiracies against Hitler. And he was also closely cooperating with the British and American intelligence at that!

Let’s also pay attention at the presumable date of the Roosevelt assassination attempt. Reports of the American agents tell us that as far back as in March of 1941 Ukrainian terrorists obtained the corresponding orders from their German masters. Mind that it was 9 months prior to the U. S. entering into the war against Germany!

Who was to profiteer from that?

When we say "Canaris" — we mean the wide international conspiracy — the "trans-Atlantic network". The question is why would they need to kill Roosevelt in spring of 1941?

By that time the USA was nominally a neutral country, though they‘ve allowed themselves to make some serious inclinations in favor of England. On the 11th of March, 1941 President approved the Lend-Lease Act. Roosevelt led the USA towards the war but he still needed the unconditional public support in order to make the last decisive step. This goal would have been achieved if America became an object of the enemy assault. Germany, meanwhile, having remembered of the First World War experience, tried to deprive the USA of any casus belli.

Finally the problem was solved quite easily (in December of 1941). Japan, driven to despair by the American oil embargo, was the first one who decided to start the war. Being in solidarity with Japan, Hitler also declared the war on the USA, hoping for the Japanese "courtesy" — that it would declare the war on the Soviet Union — in return, but this, however, never happened.

In the same period of time, in spring of 1941 it was no secret for anyone that the war between Germany and the USSR is coming. How was the USA to behave in a situation like that? On the 24th of June, 1941, the sentiments that prevailed among the American political establishment were voiced by Harry Truman — future U. S. President and American Senator at the time: "If the Germany starts to win, we’d help the Russians, and if Russia starts to win we’d lend a hand to Germany. And let them kill as many of each other as possible".

There are all the grounds to believe that had the Truman became the U. S. President in 1941 he would have conducted the very policy he actually started to carry out four years after that. The policy based on the anti-Soviet sentiments and the Russophobia. Plots of the Anglo-American-German conspirators of eliminating Roosevelt in 1941 would have been much clearer if the Presidential seat would have been vacated for Truman. Though, the thing is that in 1941 Truman had absolutely no chances of becoming President.

In November of 1940 — for the first time in the American history — Franklin Roosevelt was elected the U. S. President for the third term. This was a constitutional election, though: actual restriction to hold the Presidential post for not more than two terms was imposed only in 1951. However — despite the fact that it was John Gardner who held the post of his Vice-President during two terms — Roosevelt appointed new person to be his deputy. It was Henry Wallace.

The facts of Henry Wallace biography do not testify that he was the man whose candidacy suited the "Atlantic conspirators". Quite the contrary, he shared the Roosevelt’s foreign policy, aimed at the creation of the multi-polar competitive world and the collective global security. Moreover, having been appointed to the Secretary of Trade post during the 4th Roosevelt’s term, Wallace didn’t stay at the top echelons of power for long. In 1946 he was resigned by Truman (who automatically became President after Roosevelt’s death in April of 1945) for the disagreement with Truman’s policy aimed at the confrontation with the USSR and the Cold War. Further destiny of Wallace is also quite indicative. In 1948 he undertook one of the numerous attempts in the American history to violate the two-party political monopoly and rather unsuccessfully ran for the presidentship as a candidate from the Progressive party that he had created earlier.

But why at the elections of 1944 (obviously the last ones for him) Roosevelt picked up Truman whose position was quite well-known even during the war? Apparently, the pressure of the "Atlantic plotters" — who have already speculated at the "Communist threat" thesis at the time — became way to strong for him to stand it.

This could have change the course of war

Hence this, it was quite probable that both Roosevelt and Wallace — President and Vice-President of the USA — were the objects of failed Banderovite assassination attempt. This should have caused the first preterm Presidential elections in the history of America. It may not be true that Truman or any other man of his views would have obtained the seat in the White House. But any other President, elected in the atmosphere like that, would have been more cautious in his foreign policy. The very fact of the murder would have demonstrated vulnerability of the greatest democratic leader in the world and the "long reach of Berlin" to the whole world.

What influence could that have had on the development of affairs at the threshold and in the very beginning of the Wehrmacht campaign in Russia? The most direct one. First of all, the USA could have decided not to spread the Lend-Lease Act action onto the USSR. Second of all — which is even more significant — weakening of the USA would have strengthened the positions of those Englishmen who strived for the reconciliation with the Nazi. And the famous mission of Rudolph Höss (that took place in May of 1941) could have eventually succeeded.

We’d hope that the find of Canadian historian wouldn’t be the only one of a kind and the future investigations would reveal more mysteries of the Second World War to us. As for the destinies of the world, it was a good thing that it were the Ukrainian "heroes" who were commissioned to commit the Roosevelt’s murder. Banderovites were capable of terrorizing the innocent civil population of the Ukraine and Poland but they seemingly didn’t have the guts to eliminate the U. S. President with all the security services of his.

By Yaroslav Butakov

¹ Organization of the Ukrainian Nationalists.
² Phrase (Ukr.).