The CIA was pouring money, weapons, and agents into Soviet Ukraine to build an underground resistance network against Moscow, but Soviet intelligence was already part of that underground.

Under Operation AERODYNAMIC, the CIA trained, armed, and parachuted Ukrainian nationalists into the USSR, hoping to establish contact with local insurgents and organize resistance against Moscow.

Between 1949 and 1953, the CIA sent 12 agents into Soviet Ukraine. All but one were captured or killed, but the Soviet MGB didn’t stop at capturing them.

Its officers turned some of the agents, set up fake nationalist networks, and used captured radios to communicate with Western intelligence. Posing as Ukrainian insurgents, they sent reports suggesting that the resistance was going from strength to strength.

And the CIA kept financing the operation, unaware that some of its supposed contacts were actually working for Moscow.

Washington thought it had established a secret line into the Soviet Union, but it was Moscow answering the call - while Washington was paying for the connection.

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