Claims that the Chairman of the Party of European Socialists, PES and of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, Sergey Stanishev has been an agent of the communist State Security, DS, is sheer manipulation.

The statement was made Sunday before the Bulgarian National Radio, BNR, by Evtim Kostadinov, second-term Chairman of the Files Commission.

He said under the Files Act, there are strict rules how to obtain information, analyze it, along with who has the right to disclose it publically, and in Stanishev's case these rules have been breached.

He noted Stanishev's records were checked twice, the second time right after recent media publications on his alleged DS file, and the registration number listed in these publications showed no match.

According to Kostadinov, the Commission has records of a DS agent with the codename "Muscovite," which media and social network claimed to have belonged to Stanishev, but it has been assigned to a totally different man with a different real name and age.

The Files Commission is a panel in charge of investigating the Communist era secret files.

The Socialist leader, meanwhile, issued a statement, demanding from the prosecution to probe and establish the author(s) of the false information tarnishing his image. He calls it a "classic example" of black PR.

According to unconfirmed information of the news agency BGNES, the Facebook page, which first released the information, is managed by supporters of BSP's archrival, the centrist Citizens for European Development of Bulgarian party, GERB.

In his outrage, Stanishev reminded that GERB leader and former Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov recently threatened journalists with the country's secret services in commenting for the media documents published by the site for investigative journalism Bivol.bg, revealing Borisov has been a person of interest for the anti-mafia police in the 90s of the 20th century.

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