Stepan Lippolz (1 results)

Stapled Wraps. First Edition, First Printing. pp. 16. 12mo., measuring 5" x 8". Twice-stapled self-wrappers. No detectable flaws; fine. Exceptionally scarce in commerce, our offering being the only extant copy available at time of cataloguing. Equally scarce amongst institutional holdings; Corresponds to OCLC #70592482 indicating only but three institutional holdings at time of cataloguing. Text of a press conference held in East Berlin, in the German Democratic Republic [East Germany] on October 13, 1961, wherein, a Soviet Secret Agent, Stepan Lippolz, would falsely allege that Stepan Bandera (1909-1959), a Ukrainian nationalist, was assassinated on the orders of the short-lived Western intelligence agency, the Gehlen Organization (known colloquially as "the Org", and the precursor to its successor, Bundesnachrichtendienst). Chiefly a propaganda exercise by the Soviet Union following the defection of Bandera's actual killer, Bohdan Stashynsky, to West Germany, it was intended to deflect negative attention from the truth of their involvement in the nefarious affair. …