РІВНЕНСЬКИЙ ВЕКТОР РОЗВІДКИ ДЕРЖАВНОГО ЦЕНТРУ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ НАРОДНОЇ РЕСПУБЛІКИ

Abstract

The Volyn borderlands in the interwar period was the scene of the confrontation between the Soviet, Polish, and UNR secret services. The activation of the military special service of the State Center of the Ukrainian People's Republic was crowned by the creation of a network of intelligence stations in the Polish-Soviet borderlands.The article analyzes the activity of the control and intelligence unit in Rivne, headed by the colonel of the UNR Army Ivan Lytvynenko-Morozenko, and found that his entourage was a former military unit of the UNR, and that both Ukrainian political emigrants and local residents were involved in the agency. One of the main tasks of the Ukrainian intelligence in Rivne was the preparation and transfer of agents to the territory of the Ukrainian SSR in order to gather the necessary information, transport literature, establish contacts with the local population, ascertain their mood and attitude towards the Bolshevik authorities. In the context of engaging in intelligence work, both from the Soviet and from the Ukrainian-Polish side, a large group of people, the phenomenon of overturning agents was widespread. It was proved that in order to expand the possibility of communication with political emigrants, local population, representatives of the Polish authorities, I. Lytvynenko joined the active social work.The scientific novelty of the article is the introduction into the scientific circulation of declassified documents of the Branch State Archive of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, which made it possible to clarify the specifics of the work of the special services of the State Center of the UNR in the interwar Rivne, to prove that the organs of the State Political Department were well informed about its activities, had a lot of agents, often worked to stay ahead.The control and intelligence station of the State Center of UNR in Rivne conducted an active work directed against the USSR, with certain achievements. However, insufficient observance of the rules of conspiracy, lack of experience, internal contradictions and good preparation of the Soviet secret services leveled its success and led to the canning this station in 1935.