ONE MINISTER IN SECRET SERVICES FILES

Politics | August 9, 2001, Thursday // 00:00

One of the ministers in the cabinet of Simeon Saxe-Coburg has a personal file in the former State Secret Services, it became known after the commission on secret files completed its check-up of the ministers in Simeon Saxe-Coburg`s Cabinet. The name of the minister will not be announced because there are no irrefutable documents that he was collaborator or officer of the secret services. `According to article 5 of the Secret Files Act such people are not considered irrefutable collaborators or officers of the former State Security Service or the Former Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of People`s Defence`, Metody Andreev, head of the files commission, explained. Check-ups conducted so far have found data in the archives for 121 ministers, deputy ministers and public officers in the previous governments. The evidence for 44 of them is irrefutable.

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