Bulgaria Interior Officials Exposed as State Security Agents

А special panel, investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files, has exposed more than eighty officials from the interior ministry as state security agents and collaborators.

The check has covered people, occupying the top posts in the department - chief secretaries, general directors, deputy general directors, directors, etc.

The blacklist of former state security agents and collaborators already features Socialist President Georgi Parvanov, MPs, former constitutional judges, supreme magistrates, investigators, members of parliament, prominent and well-known former and current Bulgarian journalists.

The files of the former Committee for State Security are a thorny issue in Bulgaria, especially when it comes to the past of high-ranking officials.

Bulgaria's communist-era security service is believed to have remained potent after the fall of communism with the ex-operatives closely linked to the political and business establishment.

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