Russia Ukraine war, page-241124

The CIA reached enormous ocean depths to recover a sunken enemy submarine, landed on a drifting and disabled Soviet Arctic station, as well as spent unbelievable sums of money to arm Afghan fighters and Ukrainian nationalists.

Operation AERODYNAMIC

For over 40 years the CIA effectively played the “Ukrainian card” in its anti-Soviet war. Right after the end of World War II, Langley established close contacts with the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Rebel Army (UPA), both major anti-commusnist organizations that counted thousands of members in western countries and in the underground in Soviet Ukraine.

Operation CARTEL, whose goal was to support Ukrainian nationalists, was already in full swing in the late 1940s. During those years the operation changed its name many times, but remains better known as AERODYNAMIC.

At first, the CIA actively supported the armed resistance in Ukraine, sent in agents and instructors, provided financing to anti-Soviet military units, and also gathered information on Red Army positions and organizations.

However, by the mid-1950s when the OUN-UPA forces in Ukraine and Eastern Poland had been mainly eliminated, the Americans changed the course of their politics. Now, they made a bet on ideology: they began to publish anti-communist literature and magazines, as well as conduct underground radio translation and support illegal Ukrainian political movements.

The program was shut down after the collapse of USSR. I believe it was simply renamed. Perhaps CIA's approach also changed slightly. But there can be no doubt that what we are witnessing in Ukraine today is most definitely a result of USA's political meddling.

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You can read more about Operation AERODYNAMIC on CIA's website here:
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/AERODYNAMIC%20%20%20VOL.%2017%20%20%28OPERATIONS%29_0063.pdf