Two members of Bulgaria's Supreme Cassation Court have contributed for a short period of time to the Communist-era state security services, the court said.

The judges' names as former agents have been officially released by the Interior Ministry on the court's request. Eighty-eight supreme cassation judges had submitted a list with their names to the interior minister, whose personal approval is needed to make available all documents related to the former Durjavna Sigurnost.

In his letter, Interior Minister Rumen Petkov points out that the two judges have never consented or signed a declaration to cooperate the secret services.

The news comes amidst an ongoing debate over how Bulgaria should reckon with its totalitarian past and after the names of well-known television journalists, who allegedly collaborated with communist secret services, were revealed at the end of May.

Sixteen years after the collapse of the regime, Bulgaria has remained the only country among former Soviet satellites in failing to reach consensus on the issue.

At the beginning of June the government called for the entire opening of the security police archives, showing a few shifts in the stand of the Prime Minister Stanishev, who initially urged that the files should be destroyed.

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