Georgi Mihov,Bulgaria's consul-general in the Russian city of St Petersburg has resigned a as a result of the recent diplomatic scandal in Bulgaria, exposing some 50% of the country's diplomats in missions abroad as former agents of the Communist State Security.

Thus, Mihov is officially the first 'victim' of the revelations.

According to the data announced by Bulgaria's special panel, investigating the communist-era police files, known as the Files' Commission, Mihov collaborated to the State Security under the secret pseudonym Evgeni (Eugene) until 1986. He worked First Main Directorate of the State Security, the one responsible for foreign intelligence.

Mihov is a former Bulgarian Ambassador in Vietnam (2002-2006).

the numbers indicating that nearly 50% of all Bulgarian diplomats have been collaborators and agents of the former Communist State Security.The probe involved 462 diplomats.

Ambassadors, Consuls and Deputy Directors of diplomatic missions in the Great Britain, Germany, Italy, UN (New York and Geneva), Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Turkey, Russia, China, Sweden, Romania, Norway, Japan, Qatar, Kuwait, Syria, Egypt, Bosnia, Greece, the Vatican,Slovakia, Albania, Georgia, Armenia and Venezuela are among those mentioned as the former Bulgarian State Security's collaborators.

The revelations caused a political turmoil in Bulgaria, as Prime Minister Boyko Borisov firmly pledging to fire the discredited diplomats, while President Georgi Parvanov opposed this option.

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