20% of Bulgaria's Top Cops Exposed as Communist Security Agents

The so-called “Files Commission” is investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files. File Photo

Over twenty percent of the leadership of the Bulgarian Interior Ministry between 1990 and 2010 have been exposed Tuesday as former agents of the country's Communist State Security.

The names have been revealed by a special panel, investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files.

The so-called Files Commission published its 15th and last report including 128 names. With the other 14 reports the number came up to a total of 1 446 individuals.

The Commission began since March to check the files of the Interior Ministry in alphabetical order and it turned out the institution has the highest number of former Communist security agents than all those probed by now.

The results clearly show that after the fall of the Communism in 1989, these agents have been systematically promoted to high-ranking posts instead of qualified people, a member of the Commission commented.

The law mandates the Commission to check the files of the chief secretary, general directors, their deputies, directors and their deputies, the chiefs of regional police precincts, department and sector heads. A total of 6 219 people have been under scrutiny.

The names from the 15th report were not immediately available, but it is known that the one of Tsviatko Tsvetkov, former Socialist Interior Head Secretary during the cabinet of ousted Prime Minister, Jan Videnov, and later an advisor of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, is among them.

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.

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