Russia Ukraine war, page-227056

Here's another bit of reading.

Cold War Allies:The Origins of CIA's Relationship with Ukrainian Nationalists

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/STUDIES%20IN%20INTELLIGENCE%20NAZI%20-%20RELATED%20ARTICLES_0015.pdf

Spoiler alert: Their relationship started right after the 2nd World War.

OSS, turned CIA, has a long record of using right-wingers, nazi-collaborators, fascists, organised crime groups and extremists to influence politics in countries all over Europe.

Some of these groups were brought under what is known as Operation Gladio today.These groups were internationally coordinated by the Pentagon and NATO and had their last known meeting in the NATO-linked Allied Clandestine Committee (ACC) in Brussels in October 1990.Operation Gladio is responsible for many assassinations, terrorist acts and who knows how many other atrocities, that were used to shape European politics.