Bulgaria Exposes Former Secret Police Agents at Communications Watchdog

A special panel, investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files, released on Wednesday the names of agents and collaborators of the former secret police, who are former or present members of the country's Communications Regulation Commission.

The probe investigated the files of 136 people, another 7 were immune to the probe under local legislation.

According to the information published on the website of the so called Files Commission, 7 members of the communications watchdog have been collaborators or agents from the secret police of the former communist regime.

The list features Rositsa Mangacheva, Assen Sabev, Atanas Ivanov, Blagoj Delev, Vesselin Stoykov, Nikola Dikov, Simeon Kralikov.

The Files Commission was set up in April, 2007, as part of Bulgaria's long overdue efforts to finally face up to its totalitarian past and disclose who did what for the secret police under communism.

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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