Finally, something which makes sense in the "Who Started This?" question.
...Stephen Kinzer tells this long-hidden story. Beginning in the refugee camps of postwar Europe, where CIA officers recruited their first Ukrainian agents, it follows generations of rebels, exiles, traitors, and covert operatives through decades of clandestine missions. Although nearly all of the guerrilla warriors that the CIA sent into Ukraine were captured or killed, it never gave up. From the late 1940s through the end of the Cold War, American leaders saw Ukrainians as their most effective weapon against Moscow. They continued to press that strategy after Ukraine’s independence and the eastward expansion of the US-dominated NATO alliance. ...
I always thought it was a bit odd that my college Russian professor was Ukrainian with very good, almost un-accented, English. Not strange enough to ask a lot of questions, but not the norm.
Maybe his history was far more exciting than being a bi-(tri-?)-lingual scholar, eh?
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