The Mystery of Stepan Fedak Jr.’s Disappearance

The fate of Stepan Fedak, whose sisters were married to Yevhen Konovalets and Andriy Melnyk, is full of mysteries and blank spots. It was believed that he disappeared without a trace around 1945, at the end of World War II. But the mgb, and later the kgb of the ussr, did not believe this and persistently kept searching the world for him. They needed him in order to complete a special operation that had been so unexpectedly interrupted by the outbreak of war. The operation is a striking example of how moscow resorted to such a rather specific method as “gentle” recruitment, solely to infiltrate the inner circle of leaders of the Ukrainian liberation movement.

(From the archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine).

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