12 from Bulgaria's Gov Administration Were Ex Communist Spies

The new headquarters of Bulgaria's Files Commission - a panel in charge of investigating the Communist era secret files. File photo

Bulgaria's so-called Files Commission exposed Monday 12 people that worked for the administration of the Council of Ministers as agents and collaborators of the former Communist State Security, DS.

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

Of the 12, only one – Gencho Genchev is still a Department Head at the Council of Ministers.

The rest had either worked there during the terms of previous cabinets or have already been exposed during checks of other institutions.

They are: the Head of the cabinet's press center under the socialist government of Zhan Videnov – Krasimir Raydovski as well as Edi Emiryan, Ivan Dimitrov, Iliya Krastelnikov, Mihail Mihailov, Nikola Baltov, Panto Pantev, Stoyan Denchev, Hristo Matanov, Hristofor Hristov, and Tsonko Tsonkov.

The Commission has established another three people, who had worked for DS, but under article 1 of the Act for Access and Publication of Documents and Reporting of Association of Bulgarian Citizens with DS and Intelligence Services of the Bulgarian Army, their names are not subject to publication.

Last Tuesday, the Commission exposed eleven out of a total of fifteen Bulgarian Metropolitan bishops as former DS agents.

The blacklist of former state security agents and collaborators already features, now-ex President and former Socialist leader, Georgi Parvanov, former constitutional judges, supreme magistrates, investigators, members of parliament, prominent and well-known former and current Bulgarian journalists, as well as ambassadors and diplomats abroad.

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