BULGARIA

BULGARIA

July 2006 – Bulgaria had stopped at its border with Romania a truck, filled with radioactive material, destined for the Iranian ministry of defence. The radioactive material could easily be removed and used to construct a dirty bomb.

12 October 2006 – New evidence is a blow to theories invented by the Soviet disinformation experts and circulated in the West saying the Grey wolves group in Turkey, of which Mehmet Ali Agca was a member. New evidence found in the archives of the East German communist secret service Stasi. The Bulgarian secret service helped Agca in the execution of the attempt on Pope John Paul. Stasi was assigned by the Kremlin to cover all reports and accusations against the Bulgarians. The Moscow led efforts to get rid of the Pope was shared by other secret services of the Warsaw pact countries and coordinated by the KGB. The Polish secret service played a key role in the plot. (Axis East European secret service review AIA).

15 November 2006 – Homemade bomb blasts a car in Sofia Sunday morning. Also a bomb blasts a housing block in Bulgaria.

19 November 2006 Bomb alert Bulgarian news agency said an anonymous caller said an explosive device was planted in the building of the news agency. Member of the Muslim brothers group.

22 November 2006 – The sudden death of the man in charge of a key Bulgarian secret police archive that was about to be declassified. Bozhidar Doychev, aged 61,was director of the national intelligence service archive since 1991. It is believed to contain info about the 1981 shooting of Pope John Paul II, and the assassination of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov, as well as records on current officials who may have worked for the secret police. Doychev was found dead at his desk. Shot in the head with his own pistol. Bulgarian officials called his death a probable suicide. Parliament was preparing to vote on declassifying all of the Communist era state security files. (International Herald Tribune Matthew Brunwasser).

27 November 2006 – Two people were hospitalised after a chlorine gas incident in Chiprovtsi. 40 bottles of Chlorine gas exploded in the local water supply company, endangering the population of the town. Some of the citizens were given masks.

27 November 2006 – Mysterious white powder spread in front of the US embassy in Sofia and the Lozenets hospital which raised the alarm of police and civil defence units.

27 November 2006 – A bomb threat stops the party congress in Bulgaria. The Congress of the Bulgarian agriculture national Union was to be held at Sofias university of agriculture.

3 January 2007 – The Bulgarian underworld. The double shooting of suspected Mafia rivals on the same day. Dimitar Vuchev was driving with his wife in central Sofia when his Audi was riddled with bullets. Hours later when Radoslav Velkov arrived at a police station, a gunman was waiting to shoot him in the head. Both men survived. Bulgaria’s post Communist history is one of corruption and contract killings as rivals fight for control of the heroin route to Europe from Afghanistan, the Golden Crescent, arms and sex slavery trafficking  (Christchurch Press NZ. The Times UK).

27 August 2007 – Spanish and Bulgarian police busted Bulgarian drug smugglers. (Sofia Echo) http://tinyuk/.com/2c65h4

1 November 2012 – Bulgarians use Facebook to expose slipshod police. (Sofia Reuters)