01 novembre 2007
Bulgaria Former Top Investigator Backed to Get Back in Office
The former head of the National Investigation Service (NIS) Boyko Rashkov has been nominated by five members of the Supreme Judicial Council to head the institution again.
Rashkov, former head of the investigative service and former Socialist MP, has been backed by Anelia Minguova, Plamen Stoilov, Petar Stoyanov, Galina Zaharova and Svetlana Danova.
Bulgaria's brand new Supreme Judicial Council launched two weeks ago election processes for chair of the country's Supreme Cassation Court and top investigator.
These are two of the important appointments that the body, which is in charge of the self-administration and organisation of the judiciary and is known as its government, has the task to make.
The country's national investigative service head Anguel Alexandrov quit in the summer in the wake of a corruption scandal probe after claiming to have been physically threatened by the former Economy and Energy Minister Rumen Ovcharov, who was also swept out of office in the flap.
Boyko Naydenov, head of the corruption combat unit with the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor's Office, is likely to succeed Alexandrov, according to reports.
The term of the current Supreme Cassation Court chairman Ivan Grigorov expires on November 20.
Lazar Gruev, judge at the Constitutional Court, is the only nomination so far to succeed Grigorov.
The Supreme Judicial Council inaugurated its new members from the parliamentary quota at the beginning of October, marred by a scandal and doubts over its legitimacy.
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=87065
26 octobre 2007
Bulgaria Names over 400 Mayor Hopefuls as Collaborators
A special panel investigating Bulgaria's communist-era police files announced that more than 430 candidates for mayors once collaborated with the secret services.
The biggest part of the candidates figuring on the black list have been nominated by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (76), the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, a junior partner in the governing coalition who represents Bulgaria's sizable Turkish minority (54), GERB, the party of populist Sofia mayor Boyko Borissov (38) and nationalist Ataka party (27).
Former intelligence chief Brigo Asparuhov, who was on the blacklist of MPs with murky past, expectedly figures on the latest blacklist of alleged secret services collaborators.
The findings come just three days before Bulgarians head to vote in local elections and shortly after two members of the central electoral body were exposed as one-time secret service collaborators.
One of the panel's first acts came at the end of July and exposed Parvanov, 50, a communist historian who has been president since 2002 and was re-elected last year, as a collaborator. Meanwhile six out of 218 runners in Bulgaria's first MEP elections were revealed to have murky past, along with three former constitutional judges and fifteen supreme magistrates and investigators.
At the beginning of September the special panel released the names of 138 agents and collaborators to the secret services, who have been members of Bulgaria's parliaments since the collapse of the communist regime in 1989. Also on the list were the names of president Georgi Parvanov and 19 current members of parliament.
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.
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=86801
Mayors – agents
| 26 October 2007 | 07:05 | FOCUS News Agency |
The File Secret Committee revealed Thursday that more than 400 candidates in this weekend's municipal elections worked for the country's communist-era secret services. Total of 77 are candidates for mayors who were formerly agents to the State Security from the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), total of 39 are in the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (CEDB), total of 59 are in the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) and total of 27 are the Attack Party’ s nominees for candidate mayors that were collaborated with the State Security.
25 octobre 2007
428 Bulgarian Candidates for Mayors - Ex State Security Agents
For about 4% of Bulgarian candidates for mayors exists data for affiliation to the former State Security.
This was informed by the secret files Commission's member Valeri Katsunov. Today will be announced the commission's results by the check-up.
More than 11,500 names were checked, which means that the candidates with agent past are probably round 420.
Most of them were concentrated on one political power, commented Katsunov.
http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_367313159
Two communist-era secret services collaborators exposed in Bulgaria’s electoral committee
Five days before Bulgarians head to vote in local elections, the findings of the File's Committe, or special panel, investigating the country's communist-era police files widened to include two members of the central electoral body.
Two of the members of the Central Election Committee (CEC) of Bulgaria collaborated with the communist-era secret services, the commission for declassification of the secret services archives said yesterday, publishing their names on its web site, news agencies are reporting from Sofia.
The two are Roumen Elenski and Tsvetozariya Iosifova-Kuteva, mediapool.bg said. Elenski was on the staff of the communist security services. In 1982, he become an intelligence agent and in 1985 was sent to the KGB school in the USSR. In 1989, he became a senior intelligence agent, online agency notes.
Iosifova-Kuteva was a secret collaborator and held agent quarters. Kuteva, wife of Olimpi Kutev, parliamnet member on the ticket of the centrist party of former king Simeon Saxe-Coburg and former district governor of Sofia, reportedly worked for the security services until 1990. National Movement for Stability and Progress nominated Iosifova-Kuteva for the CEC in 2003, while Elenski was nominated by Bulgarian Socialist Party in 2005, The Sofia Echo expands.
Following the latest revelations the list of state security collaborators is slowly swelling, Sofia News Agency concludes. At the beginning of September a special panel released the names of 138 agents and collaborators to the secret services, who have been members of Bulgaria's parliaments since the collapse of the communist regime in 1989. Also on the list were the names of president Georgi Parvanov and 19 current members of parliament. 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.
On October 24 2007, the archives declassification committee will announce whether any of the mayor candidates collaborated to the secret services, according to mediapool.bg.
http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1414
24 octobre 2007
Bulgaria Electoral Body Sucked into Secret Files Scandal
Five days before Bulgarians head to vote in local elections, the findings of the special panel investigating the country's communist-era police files widened to include two members of the central electoral body.
The special panel exposed Rumen Elenski and Tsvetozaria Yosifova - Kuteva to have been collaborators to the secret services by publishing their names on its web site.
Kuteva, wife of Olimpi Kutev, MP on the ticket of the centrist party of former king Simeon Saxe-Coburg and former district governor of Sofia, was nominated for member of the Central Electoral Commission by the party of her husband in 2003.
Rumen Elenski was recruited at the beginning of the 80s and served as an intelligence agent. He was nominated for member of the Central Electoral Commission by the Bulgarian Socialist Party in 2005.
Following the latest revelations the list of state security collaborators is slowly swelling.
At the beginning of September a special panel released the names of 138 agents and collaborators to the secret services, who have been members of Bulgaria's parliaments since the collapse of the communist regime in 1989. Also on the list were the names of president Georgi Parvanov and 19 current members of parliament.
Bulgaria's Socialist President Georgi Parvanov was exposed as state security collaborator for the first time at the end of July, six out of 218 runners in Bulgaria's first MEP elections were earlier revealed to have murky past, along with three former constitutional judges and fifteen supreme magistrates and investigators.
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.
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=86721
22 octobre 2007
Bulgarie : qui a peur de l’ouverture des dossiers de l’ancienne police politique ?
Osservatorio sui balcani Bulgarie : qui a peur de l’ouverture des dossiers de l’ancienne police politique ? Traduit par Caroline Target Publié dans la presse : 4 octobre 2007 Mise en ligne : vendredi 19 octobre 2007 Sur la Toile Depuis quelques mois, la Bulgarie vit au rythme du grand déballage : le Président Parvanov et près de 100 députés élus depuis 1990 étaient des agents de la Darzhavna Sigurnost, l’ancienne police politique du régime communiste. « En Bulgarie, le temps de l’épuration est passé. C’est par la vérité historique qu’il faut assainir la société, mais les institutions opposent une forte résistance », explique Ekatarina Boncheva, membre de la commission chargé de révéler les noms des anciens collaborateurs des services secrets. Entretien. Par Francesco MartinoEkatarina Boncheva est l’un des neufs membres de la Commission sur l’accès aux dossiers des ex-services secrets, élus en avril 2007 par le Parlement bulgare. Cette commission a pour objectif de faire la lumière sur les documents conservés aux archives et de rendre publics les noms de ceux qui ont collaboré avec les services secrets du régime communiste, la Darzhavna Sigurnost (DS).
Ces derniers mois, la commission chargée de faire la lumière sur les archives des services secrets communistes a établi l’implication du Président Georgi Parvanov, de même que celle d’une centaine de députés élus depuis 1990. Quel principe doit suivre la Commission dans le choix des secteurs à contrôler ?
La Commission suit les principes délimités par la « Loi sur l’accès aux documents et sur la communication de l’appartenance de citoyens bulgares à la sûreté d’Etat et à la direction générale du Renseignement de l’Armée populaire bulgare », approuvée le 6 décembre 2006, et connue sous le nom de « Loi sur l’accès aux dossiers ». Cette loi, en plus d’en définir la philosophie, fournit aussi la méthodologie de travail de la Commission, spécifiant quels personnages publics pourront être contrôlés.
Osservatorio sui Balcani (OB) : Quelle est la procédure retenue pour contrôler les différents secteurs de l’administration ?
Ekatarina Boncheva (EB) : Nous demandons aux institutions que nous voulons contrôler une liste écrite de leurs dirigeants. Une fois cette liste reçue, nous demandons aux organes de sécurité détenant actuellement les documents relatifs à la DS de contrôler s’il y a des dossiers sur ces personnes et, si c’est le cas, de nous les envoyer. En se basant sur les documents reçus, les neufs membres de la Commission, nommés par les différents partis politiques, rendront public le nom des collaborateurs des anciens services secrets du régime communiste. Jusqu’à maintenant, nous avons contrôlé huit institutions, dont le Président et le vice-Président de la République, la Cour constitutionnelle et le Conseil supérieur de la magistrature.
OB : Quelles institutions seront contrôlées dans les mois à venir ?
EB : La Commission s’occupera du Conseil des ministres, des différentes agences de l’Etat et des commission nationales, des juges et des procureurs. Toutes ces institutions devront être contrôlées d’ici le 20 novembre prochain. En ce moment, nous attendons le contrôle des candidats aux prochaines élections administratives. Ils sont, en tout, entre 50 et 60 000.
OB : Quelles sont les principales difficultés que vous devez affronter au cours de votre travail de contrôle ?
EB : Il y a deux problèmes principaux. Le premier est qu’il nous manque toujours un siège officiel. Le second est le ralentissement du travail dû au fait que l’archivage des documents ne se trouve pas à notre disposition immédiate. Nous suspectons même l’Etat d’être en train de saboter le travail de la Commission. Selon la loi, approuvée par ce même gouvernement, nous aurions dû recevoir un bureau depuis le 22 mars 2007. Avoir un bureau est d’une importance fondamentale, pas seulement pour la Commission, mais aussi pour les citoyens qui veulent accéder aux documents. En outre, de cette façon, les organes de sécurité qui gardent jalousement les documents, peuvent en ralentir le flux tant qu’ils le veulent.
Manque de coopération de l’État
OB : Ainsi, vous voulez dire que l’Etat ne collabore pas pleinement dans cette tentative de révéler le passé de la Darzhavna Sigurnost ... ?
EB : Absolument. Je dirais même que la Commission travaille non pas grâce à l’État, mais malgré l’Etat. D’ailleurs, les membres de la Commission parlementaire à qui nous répondons, y compris ceux de la majorité, nous ont révélé leurs craintes que le processus entier ne soit en train d’être saboté.
OB : Les documents sont encore entre les mains des services secrets. Cela signifie-t-il qu’ils contrôlent toujours le flux des informations arrivant des archives ?
EB : Oui, d’une certaine façon. Par contre, les services secrets savent que, tôt ou tard, nous réussirons à entrer en possession des archives entières. Donc si aujourd’hui quelqu’un tente de cacher quelque chose, cela finira, un jour où l’autre, par être découvert et sévèrement puni. La loi prévoit en effet de trois à sept ans de réclusion et de 15 à 30 000 leva (7 à 15 000 euros) d’amende.
OB : Comment les citoyens peuvent-ils avoir accès aux documents ?
EB : Pouvoir accéder aux documents est ce qui donne à cette loi autant de valeur. En effet, cela offre aux citoyens la possibilité de savoir si ils ont été victimes du système répressif du régime. Plus de 1000 personnes s’en sont déjà servi : il suffit d’en faire la demande écrite à la Commission, qui répond sous 30 jours. Si nous venons à découvrir des documents concernant les demandeurs, ceux-ci peuvent y accéder et même en avoir une copie.
OB : Ces jours-ci, Yane Yanev, le chef du parti Red, zakonnost i spravedlivost (Ordre, légalité et justice), a accusé l’ancien tsar Simeon II d’avoir collaboré avec la DS. Quel est votre jugement sur ce qui est arrivé ?
EB : Seule la commission peut se prononcer sur une appartenance ou non aux services secrets communistes, et elle le fait exclusivement sur la base des documents. Si quelqu’un est en possession de matériel ayant quelque rapport avec ce sujet, il a le devoir de nous les présenter. Autrement, il risque les sanctions dont nous parlions précédemment. Quant à moi, je suspecte fortement, dans cette révélation, vu l’approche des élections, une intrigue à caractère politique. Quoi qu’il en soit, il s’agirait de l’énième tentative pour déstabiliser cette marche vers la vérité.
Trop tard pour la lustracija
OB : Quelles sont les conséquences pour les hommes publics, lorsqu’on découvre leur passé dans la DS ?
EB : La loi ne prévoit aucun type de lustracija, d’épuration. Les conséquences sont à caractère exclusivement moral. Les mesures prévoient l’établissement de la vérité historique sur les collaborateurs de l’appareil répressif, afin de donner aux citoyens et aux électeurs la possibilité de savoir « qui est qui ». Pour ma part, je crois que le texte de loi, même sans sanctions, peut avoir un effet d’assainissement de la société, au moins à long terme. C’est d’ailleurs ce que démontre l’écho médiatique que reçoit le travail de la Commission, perçu comme une aide pour dépasser les aspects obscurs du passé.
OB : Mais vous, personnellement, croyez-vous qu’il devrait y avoir un certain type d’épuration ?
EB : J’ai longtemps cru que cela était nécessaire. Pourtant, aujourd’hui, ayant la possibilité de travailler de façon rapprochée sur ce sujet, en considérant les dix-sept années passées et surtout la culture politique en Bulgarie, je crois que cela se révèlerait contre-productif. L’important est de respecter la loi actuelle, un pas en avant nécessaire et important pour le pays. Pour la lustracija, c’est déjà trop tard.
OB : Beaucoup croient que les documents sur lesquels vous travaillez sont déjà irrémédiablement falsifiés, et que la vérité ne sera jamais établie pour beaucoup d’anciens collaborateurs de la DS...
EB : Il est évident que les archives ont été « nettoyées », surtout dans les années 1990, quand le ministère des Affaires intérieures était dirigé par le général Semerdzhiev. Mais, comme l’a écrit Boulgakov, « les manuscrits ne brûlent pas ». Il en est de même pour les documents : à la fin, il reste toujours des traces.
OB : Après toutes ces années, vous ne croyez pas qu’il soit trop tard pour donner une réponse satisfaisante à la question des anciens agents de la DS ?
EB : Non, parce que parmi la population, cela reste un sujet sensible. Dire que cela n’intéresse plus personne est un mensonge, facilement démenti par les milliers de personnes venant demander des documents dans les archives de la DS. L’ouverture de ces archives nous permet enfin de réécrire des pages entières de notre histoire récente. Il suffit de voir comment les documents montrent de manière évidente la dépendance absolue de nos services envers le KGB, il suffit de lire des commentaires du type « demander l’avis des camarades russes » ou « à envoyer à Moscou », pour se rendre compte combien notre pays fût, en vérité, peu maître chez lui.
OB : Mais pourquoi, selon vous, la Bulgarie affronte-t-elle la question nettement plus tard que tous les autres pays de l’ancien bloc communiste ?
EB : Avant tout, à cause de notre dépendance étroite à l’URSS. Il y a aussi le fait que la Bulgarie est le pays dans lequel les anciens membres des services secrets ont réussi à pénétrer le plus profondément à l’intérieur des structures politico-économiques de la transition. Il suffit de penser que l’actuel Président de la République a activement collaboré avec la DS, pour comprendre combien, en Bulgarie, la marche vers la vérité sera lente et difficile.
Ob : Est-il donc juste, dans le cas de la Bulgarie, de parler d’une transition « manipulée » par les anciens services secrets ?
EB : Tout à fait, du moins jusqu’à un certain point. Nous aurons une réponse plus claire lorsque, comme la loi nous le permet, nous pourrons contrôler le passé des représentants de l’élite économique actuelle, qui coïncide en bonne partie avec cette politique du régime passé. D’ici l’année prochaine, nous devrions avoir contrôlé les directeurs des banques, des sociétés d’assurance, des sociétés d’investissement, des société d’actions et les agents de la bourse. Peut-être alors, cette phrase d’Andropov, appliquée au cas bulgare, nous apparaîtra sous un jour nouveau : « la transition consiste en une confrontation entre des systèmes, qui porte à la convergence des élites ».
26 septembre 2007
Bulgaria Sees "Mayhem, Mudslinging" in Wake of Communist-Era Files
As Bulgaria delves through its Communist-era files to discover the identity of former collaborators and informants, political mayhem and mudslinging ensues, the Daily Telegraph wrote in its latest issue.
The article comments that instead of producing the intended "healing effect on society", the process has resulted in political mayhem and mudslinging, with a host of high-profile casualties.
Georgi Parvanov, the current president, has already been denounced as one of 139 leading figures, including 19 serving politicians, who worked as informants for the Soviet-era secret service that riddled Bulgaria until 1989.
And now, members of Bulgaria's opposition Order, Rule of Law and Justice party (ORLJ) have claimed that former king Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was recruited by Soviet secret services during his long exile in Spain.
The accusations have been rejected by the ex-king, who was prime minister for four years after forming his own political party and riding a wave of popularity to victory in 2001 elections.
He suggested that the latest allegations were intended to smear him in the run up to local elections.
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=85718
23 septembre 2007
Political party presents information about Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’s past as agent /ROUNDUP/
| |||||||||||
 | |||||||||||
| Sofia. The political council of the Order, Lawfulness and Justice /OLJ/ political party endorsed a statement giving information about leader of the National Movement Simeon II* /NMS II/ Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’s past as a collaborator. According to the statement the former monarch was attracted to the secret services due to gambling debts. Besides, Simeon II worked with the secret services of the former USSR, western European and Arab countries, using his monarch ties. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and the king’s family received presents from the central committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party. After the democratic transition Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’s return to Bulgaria was organized to stabilize the socialist party. As part of the deal Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha received state property – information about all this can reportedly be found in the permanent presence of the Bulgarian Agrarian People’s Union /BAPU/, former State Security service, and other countries’ secret services. OLJ stressed Simeon II had caused fatal damages to the state, that’s why the society had to know details about his past as a collaborator, and voters – what person heads the NMS II before casting their votes in the upcoming local elections. The Secret Files Committee said for now it did not have information because the check of the members of the Council of Ministers since 1990 about possible collaboration with the former State Security service will end after the local elections. The check has already started; the list of persons to be checked is still under discussion. The committee cannot look into the archives of foreign secret services. BAPU members were also asked for comments. Anastasiya Mozer stressed that in the archives of the Bulgarian Agrarian People’s Union-People’s Union such documents had not been found, but nobody had looked for them. Nikolay Svinarov, MP from the NMS II and chairman of the parliamentary committee for internal security and public order, said: “The new act on declassifying the files envisages a deadline for all Bulgarian citizens and institutions to hand documents to the committee. The failure to hand them is regarded as a crime. I do not like the fact that the media gives the floor to criminals”. What does the OLJ know about Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’s past as a collaborator? The Bulgarian party Order Lawfulness Justice presented today information about the past of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, according to which there were files about his links to the former State Security in the archives. ‘We have reason to believe that there is also information about the contacts of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha with high representatives of the totalitarian state present in the archives of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, but they may have been destroyed when the Party office was set on fire in 1990. There are facts that Simoen II was within the sight of the Soviet Secret Services during the 60s. Foreign agents of KGB knew about his uncontrollable bent for gambling and the huge amounts of money he spent in casinos. As a nobleman it was unacceptable for him to leave unsettled debts. Thus Simeon accepts to be recruited on material grounds in return for regular payments of his debts from gambling. He became ordinary informer of the KGB. He was required to provide operative information based on his personal contacts with representatives of the European and Arab monarch dynasties. The Bulgarian State Security is also monitoring Simeon II and has been establishing contacts with him many times’, the statement of the party reads. There are confidential reports, kept in the archives of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union /BANU/ prepared by Angel Dimitrov, Georgi Andreev and other members of the Union, who were working for the communist State Security. The reports were addressed to Milko Balev and the State Security Service and contained attached information reports, personally signed by Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. This was announced in a statement made by the Bulgarian party Order, Lawfulness, Justice, during the congress of the party. The reports contain numerous pieces of information about personal contacts of Simeon II with people from the high levels of the Communist Party. The meetings were held in the presence of representatives of the Bulgarian State Security, 3rd West European Department of First Directorate, working undercover in the Foreign Ministry, the statement reads. According to the statement of the party, in 1966 the Bulgarian Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Todor Zhivkov was given car - Renault - as a present during a visit in France, where he was to sign an agreement for the production of such cars in Bulgaria. According to the information this car was later given as a present to Simeon II. Also according to the statement, there was a confidential decision of the Bulgarian People’s Assembly from the 60s, for assistance of the Royal family. The KGB and GRU decided that instead of being ordinary informer, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha can be used as agent for influence. His career as an informer is temporarily frozen, according to the text of the statement of the Political Council of the Order Lawfulness and Justice party. After the collapse of the totalitarian state influential representatives of the newly-formed Bulgarian Socialist Party sought contacts with representatives of the KGB and cooperation for the creation of a backup option for leftist government in case the elections fail. Through the KGB and under the direct control of the Lukanov circle Simeon II was re-activated, including through his presence in the Bulgarian media and the preparation of his return in a favorable moment was prepared. The necessity for his return appeared after the collapse of the Videnov cabinet. Returning in Bulgaria as agent under influence of foreign secret services, the former monarch played the role of savior of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and has reanimated it, bringing it back to power in 2005. *** Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is the biggest political fraud in Bulgaria. He did fatal damages to our country, the Secretary General of the Bulgarian political party Order Lawfulness Justuce /OLJ/ Yane Yanev said after his party presented information, according to which Simein II has been linked to the State Security Service. According to Yane Yanev all mysterious facts surrounding the return of Simeon II to Bulgaria should be announced to the Bulgarian people. What does the Secret Files Committee know about Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’s past as a collaborator? Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, in his quality of former Prime Minister is subject to check for any links to the former State Security and we have submitted a request to the present government to give us lists of all members of cabinets since 10 November till now’, Apostol Dimitrov, member of the Bulgarian Committee for announcing links to former State Security said in an interview for Focus News Agency. If the political party Order Lawfulness and Justice had any documents, concerning any links to the Bulgarian secret services, these documents should have been given to the commission in one-month term. They are subjects to penal liability for the fact that they have announced it and the sanctions are serious’, Dimitrov said. So far the commission for the archives of the former State Security in Bulgaria has no information, Valeri Katsuniv, member of the Committee said in an interview for Focus News Agency commenting on the announcement by the political party Order, Lawfulness Justice, according to which the former PM Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha has been linked to State Security. ‘I don’t believe that anyone possesses such documents. This is simply risky’, Katsunov said. He noted that anyone, who has such documents, but hasn’t submitted them to the Committee could be sentenced to between three and six years in prison. What do the agrarians know about Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’s past as a collaborator? “Yane Yanev have long ago given up the agrarian union and he does have anything to do with the Bulgarian Agrarian People’s Union /BAPU/,” Anastasiya Mozer from Bulgarian Agrarian People’s Union-People’s Union told Focus News Agency. The information about Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’s past as a collaborator is in the archive of the permanent presence of BAPU, says a statement by the political council of the Order, Lawfulness and Justice party announced during the party’s second congress. “Having in mind Mr. Yanev’s previous fireworks, I would not regard such things as trustworthy. Of course, there is a way, for those who want, to check whether this is true. But rumors and intrigues do not concern me. Smears come and go,” Mozer said advising Yane Yanev to come out with facts and documents if there was something true. *During a congress in June the National Movement Simeon II changed its name to National Movement for Stability and Progress. The decisions made at the congress have not received a court registration yet. | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| Sofia. “Yane Yanev have long ago given up the agrarian union and he does have anything to do with the Bulgarian Agrarian People’s Union /BAPU/,” Anastasiya Mozer from Bulgarian Agrarian People’s Union-People’s Union told Focus News Agency. The information about Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’s past as a collaborator is in the archive of the permanent presence of BAPU, says a statement by the political council of the Order, Lawfulness and Justice party announced during the party’s second congress. “Having in mind Mr. Yanev’s previous fireworks, I would not regard such things as trustworthy. Of course, there is a way, for those who want, to check whether this is true. But rumors and intrigues do not concern me. Smears come and go,” Mozer said advising Yane Yanev to come out with facts and documents if there was something true. | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| Sofia. Simeon Saxe-Coburg is the biggest political fraud in Bulgaria. He did fatal damages to our country, the Secretary General of the Bulgarian political party Order Lawfulness Justuce /OLJ/ Yane Yanev said after his party presented information, according to which Simein II has been linked to the State Security Service. According to Yane Yanev all mysterious facts surrounding the return of Simeon II to Bulgaria should be announced to the Bulgarian people, a reporter of FOCUS News Agency informed. | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| Sofia. Simeon Saxe-Coburg, in his quality of former Prime Minister is subject to check for any links to the former State Security and we have submitted a request to the present government to give us lists of all members of cabinets since 10 November till now’, Apostol Dimitrov, member of the Bulgarian Commission for announcing links to former State Security said in an interview for FOCUS News Agency. If the political party Order Lawfulness and Justice had any documents, concerning any links to the Bulgarian secret services, these documents should have been given to the commission in one-month term. they are subject to penal liability for the fact that they have announced it and the sanctions are serious’, Dimitrov said. | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| Sofia. The KGB and GRU decided that instead of being ordinary informer, Simeon Saxe-Coburg can be used as agent for influence. His career as informer is temporarily frozen, according to the text of the statement of the Political Council of the Order Lawfulness and Justice party, during the second congress of the party, a reporter FOCUS News Agency. After the collapse of the totalitarian state influential representatives of the newly-formed Bulgarian Socialist Party sought contacts with representatives of the KGB and cooperation for the creation of a backup option for leftist government in case the elections fail. Through the KGB and under the direct control of the Lukanov circle Simeon II was re-activated, including through his presence in the Bulgarian media and the preparation of his return in a favorable moment was prepared. The necessity for his return appeared after the collapse of the Videnov cabinet. Returning in Bulgaria as agent under influence of foreign secret services, the former monarch played the role of savior of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and has reanimated it, bringing it back to power in 2005. | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| Sofia. There are confidential reports, kept in the archives of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union /BANU/ prepared by Angel Dimitrov, Georgi Andreev and other members of the Union, who were working for the communist State Security. The reports were addressed to Milko Balev and the State Security Service and contained attached information reports, personally signed by Simeon Saxe-Coburg. This was announced in a statement made by the Bulgarian party Order, Lawfulness, Justice, during the congress of the party, a reporter of FOCUS News Agency informed. The reports contain numerous pieces of information about personal contacts of Simeon II with people from the high levels of the Communist Party. The meetings were held in the presence of representatives of the Bulgarian State Security, 3rd West European Department of First Directorate, working undercover in the Foreing Ministry, the statement reads. According to the statement of the party, in 1966 the Bulgarian Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Todor Zhivkov was given car - Renault - as a present during a visit in France, where he was to sign an agreement for the production of such cars in Bulgaria. According to the information this car was later given as a present to Simeon II. Also according to the statement, wthere was a confidential decision of the Bulgarian People’s Assembly from the 60s, for assistance of the Royal family. | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| Sofia. The Bulgarian party Order Lawfulness Justice presented today information about the past of Simeon Saxe-Coburg, according to which there were files about his links to the former State Security in the archives, a reporter of FOCUS News Agency informed. ‘We have reason to believe that there is also information about the contacts of Simeon Saxe-Coburg with high representatives of the totalitarian state present in the archives of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, but they may have been destroyed when the Party office was set on fire in 1990. There are facts that Simoen II was within the sight of the Soviet Secret Services during the 60s. Foreign agents of KGB knew about his uncontrollable bent for gambling and the huge amounts of money he spent in casinos. As a nobleman it was unacceptable for him to leave unsettled debts. Thus Simeon accepts to be recruited on material grounds in return for regular payments of his debts from gambling. He became ordinary informer of the KGB. He was required to provide operative information based on his personal contacts with representatives of the European and Arab monarch dynasties. The Bulgarian State Security is also monitoring Simeon II and has been establishing contacts with him many times’, the statement of the party reads. |
Secret Files again...
| 23 September 2007 | 08:50 | FOCUS News Agency |
The political council of the Order, Lawfulness and Justice /OLJ/ political party endorsed a statement giving information about leader of the National Movement Simeon II* /NMS II/ Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’s past as a collaborator. According to the statement the former monarch was attracted to the secret services due to gambling debts. Besides, Simeon II worked with the secret services of the former USSR, western European and Arab countries, using his monarch ties. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and the king’s family received presents from the central committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party. After the democratic transition Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’s return to Bulgaria was organized to stabilize the socialist party. As part of the deal Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha received state property – information about all this can reportedly be found in the permanent presence of the Bulgarian Agrarian People’s Union /BAPU/, former State Security service, and other countries’ secret services.
The Secret Files Committee said for now it did not have information because the check of the members of the Council of Ministers since 1990 about possible collaboration with the former State Security service will end after the local elections.
What does the OLJ know about Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’s past as a collaborator?
The Bulgarian party Order Lawfulness Justice presented today information about the past of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, according to which there were files about his links to the former State Security in the archives.
‘We have reason to believe that there is also information about the contacts of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha with high representatives of the totalitarian state present in the archives of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, but they may have been destroyed when the Party office was set on fire in 1990.
There are facts that Simoen II was within the sight of the Soviet Secret Services during the 60s. Foreign agents of KGB knew about his uncontrollable bent for gambling and the huge amounts of money he spent in casinos. As a nobleman it was unacceptable for him to leave unsettled debts. Thus Simeon accepts to be recruited on material grounds in return for regular payments of his debts from gambling. He became ordinary informer of the KGB. He was required to provide operative information based on his personal contacts with representatives of the European and Arab monarch dynasties. The Bulgarian State Security is also monitoring Simeon II and has been establishing contacts with him many times’, the statement of the party reads.
There are confidential reports, kept in the archives of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union /BANU/ prepared by Angel Dimitrov, Georgi Andreev and other members of the Union, who were working for the communist State Security. The reports were addressed to Milko Balev and the State Security Service and contained attached information reports, personally signed by Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. This was announced in a statement made by the Bulgarian party Order, Lawfulness, Justice, during the congress of the party.
The reports contain numerous pieces of information about personal contacts of Simeon II with people from the high levels of the Communist Party. The meetings were held in the presence of representatives of the Bulgarian State Security, 3rd West European Department of First Directorate, working undercover in the Foreign Ministry, the statement reads.
According to the statement of the party, in 1966 the Bulgarian Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Todor Zhivkov was given car - Renault - as a present during a visit in France, where he was to sign an agreement for the production of such cars in Bulgaria. According to the information this car was later given as a present to Simeon II. Also according to the statement, there was a confidential decision of the Bulgarian People’s Assembly from the 60s, for assistance of the Royal family.
The KGB and GRU decided that instead of being ordinary informer, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha can be used as agent for influence. His career as an informer is temporarily frozen, according to the text of the statement of the Political Council of the Order Lawfulness and Justice party. After the collapse of the totalitarian state influential representatives of the newly-formed Bulgarian Socialist Party sought contacts with representatives of the KGB and cooperation for the creation of a backup option for leftist government in case the elections fail. Through the KGB and under the direct control of the Lukanov circle Simeon II was re-activated, including through his presence in the Bulgarian media and the preparation of his return in a favorable moment was prepared. The necessity for his return appeared after the collapse of the Videnov cabinet.
Returning in Bulgaria as agent under influence of foreign secret services, the former monarch played the role of savior of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and has reanimated it, bringing it back to power in 2005.
***
Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is the biggest political fraud in Bulgaria. He did fatal damages to our country, the Secretary General of the Bulgarian political party Order Lawfulness Justuce /OLJ/ Yane Yanev said after his party presented information, according to which Simein II has been linked to the State Security Service. According to Yane Yanev all mysterious facts surrounding the return of Simeon II to Bulgaria should be announced to the Bulgarian people.
What does the Secret Files Committee know about Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’s past as a collaborator?
Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, in his quality of former Prime Minister is subject to check for any links to the former State Security and we have submitted a request to the present government to give us lists of all members of cabinets since 10 November till now’, Apostol Dimitrov, member of the Bulgarian Committee for announcing links to former State Security said in an interview for Focus News Agency.
If the political party Order Lawfulness and Justice had any documents, concerning any links to the Bulgarian secret services, these documents should have been given to the commission in one-month term. They are subjects to penal liability for the fact that they have announced it and the sanctions are serious’, Dimitrov said.
So far the commission for the archives of the former State Security in Bulgaria has no information, Valeri Katsuniv, member of the Committee said in an interview for Focus News Agency commenting on the announcement by the political party Order, Lawfulness Justice, according to which the former PM Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha has been linked to State Security.
‘I don’t believe that anyone possesses such documents. This is simply risky’, Katsunov said.
He noted that anyone, who has such documents, but hasn’t submitted them to the Committee, could be sentenced to between three and six years in prison.
What do the agrarians know about Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’s past as a collaborator?
“Yane Yanev have long ago given up the agrarian union and he does have anything to do with the Bulgarian Agrarian People’s Union /BAPU/,” Anastasiya Mozer from Bulgarian Agrarian People’s Union-People’s Union told Focus News Agency.
The information about Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’s past as a collaborator is in the archive of the permanent presence of BAPU, says a statement by the political council of the Order, Lawfulness and Justice party announced during the party’s second congress.
“Having in mind Mr. Yanev’s previous fireworks, I would not regard such things as trustworthy. Of course, there is a way, for those who want, to check whether this is true. But rumors and intrigues do not concern me. Smears come and go,” Mozer said advising Yane Yanev to come out with facts and documents if there was something true.