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One in six Bulgarian post-communist ministers had collaborated

13.02.2008

Parvanov denied being aware of the fact that the services considered him as a collaborator, explaining that as a historian he was asked to provide expert help to a Bulgarian emigrant writing a book about Macedonia.
The committee confirmed that it did not dispose of documents signed or written by Parvanov himself but he was mentioned under the code name "Gotze" in documents written by the agent who contacted him.
Bulgaria was once one of the most faithful Soviet satellites, while the Darzhavna Sigurnost was implicated in some of the landmark spy plots of the Communist-era, like the 1978 "ricin-poisoned umbrella" murder of writer and dissident Georgi Markov and the 1981 attempt to kill Pope John-Paul II.
But some 130,000 out of the total 280,000 files of the Darzhavna Sigurnost were destroyed by the first post-communist government shortly before the service itself was dissolved in 1991.

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