Bulgaria Investigators Exposed as Secret Communist Agents

After looking at the records of 4 017 investigators, Bulgaria's Files Commission announced 250 of them have beenagents for the former, Communist-Era Secret Services. Photo by BGNES .

Nearly 250 investigators, former and currently working at Bulgaria's institutions, were exposed Wednesday as agents for the Communist-era Secret Services.

The so-called Files Commission announced the news saying they have looked at the records of 4 017 investigators.

From them, 1 743 could not be probed while for 4 some data has been missing and their checkup is ongoing. Most of those who are proven to have been secret service agents worked for the Main Investigations Directorate at the Interior Ministry, which at the time, was under the Secret Services. Some, however have functioned as undercover agents at different institutions, informers and keepers of secret meeting places.

More popular names include former directors of the National Investigation Services such as Angel Alexandrov, and generals Kostadin Kotsaliev and Leonid Katsamunski, the former Chief Secretary of the Interior, Kosta Bogatsevski, the current Deputy Di rectos of the National Investigation Services, Rumen Andreev and Svilen Turmakov, the member of the Supreme Judicial Council, Plamen Stoilov, whose name was recently tangled in a corruption scandal at the Council, other top ranking investigators from all over the country and several lawyers.

The list that the commission has prepared so far features Socialist President Georgi Parvanov, former MPs, former constitutional judges, supreme magistrates, investigators, members of parliament, prominent and well-known former and current Bulgarian journalists.

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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