In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mykolayovych and the family name is Stashynsky.
Bohdan Stashynsky
Богдан Сташинський
B. N. Stashynsky
Born
(1931-11-04) 4 November 1931 (age 92)
Barszczowice, Second Polish Republic
Occupation(s)
Intelligence agent, assassin
Years active
1950–1961
Employer
KGB
Known for
Murder of Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera
Bohdan Mykolayovych Stashynsky or Bogdan Nikolayevich Stashinsky[1] (Ukrainian: Богда́н Микола́йович Сташи́нський; Russian: Богдáн Николáевич Сташи́нский; born 4 November 1931) is a former Soviet spy who assassinated the Ukrainian nationalist leaders Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera in the late 1950s.[2][3] He defected in West Berlin in 1961.[4]
^Plokhy, Serhii (2016). The man with the poison gun. London. ISBN 9781786070449.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin (1999). The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. Basic Books. p. 362. ISBN 0-465-00312-5.
^Burleigh, Michael (27 May 2021). Day of the Assassins: A History of Political Murder. Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-5290-3015-0. ... when a young KGB assassin of Ukrainian origin, Bohdan Stashynsky, used a cyanide spray gun against a Ukrainian nationalist ideologue, before using the same device against the wartime Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera in ...
^Plokhy, Serhii (5 January 2017). "How a KGB Assassin Used the Death of His Child to Defect". POLITICO Magazine. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
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including Anatoliy Golitsyn, Igor Gouzenko, Nikolay Khokhlov, and BohdanStashynsky were approved by the KGB head Vladimir Semichastny. Khoklov was poisoned...
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took personal control of the investigation. In 1951, the MGB agent BohdanStashynsky infiltrated into the OUN underground network and managed to find Stakhur...
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