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Richard Franz Marian Yary (Yaryga, a.k. as Karpat, and Riko Yary) was an one of the highest functionaries of the OUN and liaison between German intelligence service and OUN from 1920s until September 1941. Several sources indicates that he is responsible for 1940 OUN split, were he support OUN-B side. In June 1941 Stepan Bandera gives him a colonel rank. He was arrested by Gestapo 16 September 1941 but promptly released. Since that time he does not maintain active contacts with OUN and live at his villa at Austria were he died in 1969
Born in Rzeszów, Galicia Austria-Hungary) 14 April 1898, (other sources gives 1888 and Sudety) - his father was Austria-Hungary officer of Czech ethnicity and mother of Polish ethnicity . In 1917 he graduate a military-technical school and joined the army of Austria-Hungary in rank of Lieutenant at construction batallion. In 1918 after his retirement , he went over to the side of the Ukrainian Galician Army (UHA) were declared themselves as cavalry officer. In 1919, he became captain. In 1920, as part of the brigade of General Kravs he was interned in Czechoslovakia and was in an internment camp in Uzhhorod. In 1922 she married with Rosalie Spielvogel from rich Jewish family from Peremyshlyany.
But her father refuses to give with her any money and soon he abandons her and moves to Berlin. From 1923 he studied at German intelligence service school and was an active member of the Ukrainian Military Organization UVO, one of the closest advisers to Yevhen Konovaletz. In January 1929, he took part in the First Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists in Vienna where the formation of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists OUN was announced. From end of 1920s , he became the communications officer between Yevhen Konovaletz and admiral Wilhelm Canaris of the Abwehr, and directed espionage training courses of the UVO organized by the Abwehr. He became an agent of the Special services, and was the informant for discussions between Y. Konovaletz and the Japanese Military Attache.
Yary's influence on Stepan Bandera was the instrumental in the division of the OUN into its two factions. After the division, he stayed with the OUN(b) (Bandera faction). In November 1940, he arranged contact between Bandera and the Abwehr and set up the Vienna Bureau of the OUN(b) and he was intermediated in formation of the Nachtigall and Roland Battalion. In June 1941 Stepan Bandera gives him a colonel rank and the portfolio of Ambassador to Japan. He was arrested by Gestapo 16 September 1941 but promptly released. Since that time he does not maintain any active contacts with OUN and live at his villa at Austria were he died in 1969.
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Sources
- І.К. Патриляк. Військова діяльність ОУН(Б) у 1940—1942 роках. — Університет імені Шевченко \Ін-т історії України НАН України Київ, 2004 p.261-262
- Вєдєнєєв Д.В. Загадка Ріко Ярого // Пам'ять століть. - 2001. - № 6. -С. 149-150
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