Thousands are the national traitors of the Kingdom of Bulgaria in the period of 1919-1944, which had become agents of the GRU and the KGB.

The Soviet agents are inextinguishable and innumerable. This impression remains when you explore the archives of that time. The agents net is stretched from the Prime Minister 1934-35, Kimon Georgiev, through the military government minister Mouraviev – Ivan Marinov, to the head of the military intelligence in 1943-44, colonel Stefan Nedev. Their story is like a roadmap of a national betrayal in favor of Moscow.

Colonel Stefan Savov Nedev was born on October 27th, 1897 in the village Hanevtsi, Veliko Tarnovo. After graduating from a business school, he joined the military school, and completed it in April 1918 and immediately was appointed as a platoon commander of the 20th Infantry Regiment in Turnovo and sent to the front in Dobrodja region. In 1918 he becamed a member of the Military Union and in April next year was appointed as a secretary of the Military Union in Turnovo garrison. During the period of 1918-1944, he is appointed in different garrisons all over of the country. He married to an officer’s daughter, who subsequently played a key role in his military career. The wife of Lieutenant Stefan Nedev is Mara Zheleznova Koleva and she is a cousin of the gen. Nikola Mihov, who became a defense minister in the second government of prof. Bogdan Filov (1942-1943), and on September 9th, 1943 was elected to the Regency Council. Stefan Nedev strongly leaning to the left wing of the Military Union because it is included in the headquarters of Damian Velchev and even became secretary of the same for the Southern Bulgaria.

In early 1934 he was appointed as a professor at the Military School and takes an active part in the preparation and execution of the coup on May 19th. A year later, after the overthrow of the government of Kimon Georgiev, the left wing of the military alliance, led by Damian Velchev, Kiril Stanchev, etc., – the union went into hiding and began preparing a new coup of preparations of which Stefan Nedev is among the active ones. The coup-handers however have been revealed, but the personal relationships with Nedev – a military investigator help him to escape more serious consequences and a few days later he was released. Having worked for several years in the military publishing house in early 1938 Stefan Nedev went to Paris to study French, and in June the same year he was appointed as a military attache in Romania.

This is where the “weld” with the Soviet intelligence has happen. According to the statement of the State Security reg. №1823, from 10.10 in 1980, in Bucharest, on his own initiative he visited the Soviet Embassy, ​​which establishes contact with the control legation Paul Kukulev and secretary of legation Alexander Lunin. Colonel Stefan Nedev gave the Soviet representatives particulars and information till his dismissal in February 1941.

The check in the KGB, carried out decades later, confirmed his links with the Soviet intelligence (Letter № 3104 of December 3rd, 1969 of KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov to our offices and Reference № 2239, BO-2557 from November 18th, 1980 prepared by the representative of the KGB in Bulgaria). The German counterintelligence enters the track of Nedev and informed the German Embassy in Sofia, which in return puts the important case before the Bulgarian Ministry of the war. What happens, however, it is impressively – in April 1942, when the minister of war became a cousin of his wife gen. Nikola Mihov, Stefan Nedev is not only not investigated, not isolated, but was appointed as a chief of the staff of the I-st ​​Sofia’s army, and in May 1943 – as a Head of the Regional defense at the headquarters of the army.

Amazingly frivolity is the appointment of this person as head of the defense after being detected, and maintains contacts in Bucharest with the Soviet intelligence services? Or this appointment and the jump of his career is a version of the phrase of a Bulgarian prime minister that “we are all cousins?” Throughout, the period of his service as head of the regional defense colonel Nedev has close connection with the residency group of the Soviet intelligence in Sofia. Perhaps this explains the fact that when the British-American intelligence office in Turkey has tried to draw him to lead of a possible military coup Nedev had been delayed negotiations, which prevented the plan of the British-American intelligence services.

It was not until June 1944, when the government comes to Bagrianov, colonel Stefan Nedev was released as head of military intelligence of the army and sent as a combatant commander in Skopje, where he remained until September 9th. To him has been offered to join the overseas government of Alexander Tsankov, but he refused and returned to Sofia. Here he was immediately arrested and falls into the clutches of the killers of so called People’s Court, which sentenced him to death.

Immediately after sentencing him, literally the same day – March 15th, 1945 – General Vul (Volkov) from the Soviet mission in the Allied Control Commission ordered he to be handed over to the disposal of the Soviet inspection to the Allied Control Commission in Bulgaria. This we learned from the information of the Reference № 2239 of the Soviet KGB, where he is described, as was then the idea of ​​the NKVD about him: “Identification of operational events to be held with his participation and use.” The head of state security in 1945 Stefan Bogdanov took him to the headquarters of the NKVD in Sofia – Oborishte Str. № 19. According to the papers in front of them he told a number of valuable information about the activities of the German, English and Turkish intelligence and subversive activities of the reactionary parties and organizations in Bulgaria. In there he waited the Decree № 11 of December 13th, 1945, with which was pardoned and his death sentence was commuted to fifteen years a solitary confinement. A year later, with a new decree colonel Nedev was pardoned and fully restored with political and civil rights, as of the Reference № 8335 of 11.11.1947 of the Ministry of Justice.

After his release from the prison for many years he worked as a private body. According to the law on deprivation of pension to persons shown fascist activity Stefan Nedev has not received a pension. Providing income is being made in their own workshop bags of waste paper. He and his wife were recruited as secret collaborators of the State Security Service and their work was evaluated as positive. In 1976 the leadership of the Interior Ministry granted Stefan Nedev a single payment of 3,000 leva with a note to the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of September 24th, 1981 written by dep. department “Military Administrative” of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Maj-Colonel Veljko Palin proposes to allocate his personal pension (for whatever few months ago, in a long letter to the Politburo itself Stefan Nedev asked him to be granted). A week after the memorandum of Veljko Palin, the national traitor and the Soviet agent Stefan Nedev received such pension. It was granted with a separate decree of the State Council of the PRB and after consent of the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, fixed in Solution “B” № 30 from 10.01.1981.

This is the story. Some will call it a personal drama, others as a national betrayal – usually, rest – as a conduct in serious and ambiguous times. For myself, I choose the second definition. This is treason and unacceptable behavior of a Bulgarian officer, which marked the beginning of decades of tradition heads of the Bulgarian military intelligence to be ordinary agents of the Soviet secret service.

And if Stefan Nedev became a Soviet agent at the end of the 30s of the last century, many other national traitors of this breed have decades of experience in the service of the fatherland of hostile interests. One of them is Boris Afanasyev Manuilovich, aka “Gamma”. Born on July 15th, 1902 in the city of Lom, a son of a clerk. He started working from 8 years of age and at 14 years was a worker in a brick factory. He finished his secondary school for teachers. In 1922 he entered in the Bulgarian Communist Party. He is active in the party and its military operation in Lom. He was arrested on charges that he prepared to assassinate the Minister of Education. In 1922 a decision of the Communist Party put him out illegally from the country with documents of a Cossack-white guard who allegedly returned to their homeland. He studied at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Academy of communist education. From 1923 he was a member of the RCTs (b). After completion of the Academy in 1926 was sent to work in Krasnopresnenskiya Regional Party Committee as deputy of the chief cabinet.

In 1927, on the recommendation of the Moscow Committee of VKP (b) was adopted as a researcher at the Communist University “Ya.M.Sverdlov.” He graduated and started to teach a history of the party propaganda and has done executed tasks in Moscow enterprises. Read a course on the history of VKP (b) in Moscow universities. In 1931-32, he was a deputy head of the Department of the “History of the VKP (b)” in Communist University “YA.M. Sverdlov. ”

The NKVD was paying attention on Afanasyev and in 1930, he was sent to teach a course of the history of the party and Leninism in the Central School of the OGPU. From March 1932 is a contributor to INO and has been sent to proceed with his illegal work in Vienna. In March 1936 he moved to France as a leader of an underground group with a mission to infiltrate the governing bodies of the Trotskyist organization there. In Paris, under the pseudonym “Gamma” guided Agent Mark Sborovski (pseudo. “Tulpan”) embedded in the inner circle of the son of L. Trotsky.

In 1936-1938, the group conducted successful operations in the seizure of etc. “Archive of Trotsky” archive of Lev Sedov and the International Secretariat of the IV-January International. Together with members of their group C. Pravdino (ROLL Abbiya) on September 4th, 1937 in Lausanne, Switzerland, enforced verdict over not returning back home – Ignat Reis, took an active part in the hijacking of gen. Miller. On his return to the USSR he learned that his brother also emigrated from Bulgaria and working as a chief of aviation school was expelled from the party and arrested. He contacted immediately with Yezhov addict consider the case of his brother. His brother was released and appointed as a chief of aviation in ODC “Avia” in the Krasnodar region. In 1939-1940, he was senior attorney and then a deputy head of the special desk in the Interior addict.

In March 1941 he was appointed head of department at First Management of the NKGB of the USSR (foreign intelligence). At the beginning of June 1941 he resided in Berlin to restore the necessary intelligence links, including attempts to infiltrate the entourage of Martin Bormann. But in connection with the war, along with other Soviet citizens in July the same year through Turkey he returned back in the USSR.

During the Second World War he is one of the closest associates of Pavel Sudoplatov, the mass killer and one of the leaders of the Intelligence and diversions against the Nazis. In 1947, he was fired from the bodies of the MGB for negative characteristic. In 1948 to 1953 worked as a Head of the Department for the scientific information at the ed. “Foreign Literature”. After Stalin’s death, Sudoplatov received orders from Beria to create the Department 9 of the MVD.

In this connection, he was back to work and Boris Afanasyev was granted the title “Colonel”. Worked as a supernumerary literary collaborator in the journal. “Modern Times” and “Military Thought”. In 1958-1963, he was managing editor of the magazine. “Works and opinions”, issued in French. In 1963-1965, the acting deputy editor of the magazine. “Soviet literature”, and from 1965 worked as deputy editor of this magazine. Awarded with the “Red Flag”, the “Patriotic War-I level,” the “Red Star” badge of honor, medals. Honoured cultural man of the USSR.

Another character of the Soviet personnel military intelligence officer is the national traitor Ivan Tsolov Vinarov, nicknamed “Mar”. Born in 1896 in the city of Pleven. Comes from a wealthy landowning family. Participant in the First World War. Member of the Social-Democratic Party by the end of 1916 performing party tasks in the seizure of weapons from the warehouses of the Allied Control Commission and an active collaborator in the illegal party channel Varna – Sevastopol. Arrested in the fall of 1921 and sentenced to eight years in prison.

In December 1922 he escapes from custody and emigrated to the Soviet Union. As part of a group of the headquarters RKKA deals with the transfer of weapons for the Bulgarian communist party and for the deployment of her guerrilla bands (April 1924-November 1925). After three months of training in a special military school in the city of Tambov he illegally visited Bulgaria and Austria to help with putting the country of communist functionaries after the bombing of the church “St. King “(Sv. Nedelya”).

In the period of January 1926 – February 1929 was an adviser to China on Intelligence Group of Hristofor Salnin (known as Grishka Salnin with pseudonim “Osip”). For a while both are attached as advisers on intelligence and organization of subversive acts to First National Army commander with Fen Yuysyan. But their main efforts were focused on preparing of battle groups from criminal gangs etc. “Hunhuzi” (literally. “Redbeard”) and building hiding places where they were accumulated stocks of weapons and explosives. All this is used during the conflict on the Chinese Eastern Railway line (KVZHD). Part of the weapon was primarily trophy origin (English, French and Czechoslovak) received from soldiers taken prisoner by the army of gen. Kolchak’s troops and interventionists. Another part was buoght from Salnin and Vinarov from Berlin, Vienna, Prague and Belgrade after selling various Chinese goods – porcelain vases, statuettes and services, ivory, skilled works of Chinese wood carvers, tapestry, bamboo umbrellas, etc. All these operations are carried out under the guise of a commercial company and the role of liaison performed by Vinarov’s wife Galina Lebedeva, who worked as a cryptographer in the Soviet offices in Beijing and Harbin. In 1930 he graduated development courses for officers (CMC) in IV MANAGEMENT at the headquarters of the RKKA.

From 1930 to 1933 he was a chief resident of the Soviet military intelligence in Austria, where he organized intelligence network in several European countries – Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey. The organized intelligence group in the Czech military works factories and in factory “Skoda”, through which the Centre receives comprehensive information on the aviation industry, and he received characteristic as an “especially valuable”.

Ivan Vinarov managed to organize acquisition of 17 Greek passport and critical information from political, economic and military intelligence countries. In the period of 1931-1933, the listener is the main and later (1933-1936) is a listener in the special department of the Military Academy “M.V.Frunze.”

From December 1936 Ivan Vinarov entrusted the leadership of the intelligence group in Paris, which covered not only France, but also neighboring countries – March 1938 . One of its main tasks was recruiting fighters and materials for the Republican forces in Spain.

On July 15th, 1938 was fired from RKKA for “non-compliance.” On June 16th, 1940 that order was canceled and Ivan Vinarov was appointed as a professor in the department of general tactics at the Military Academy “M.V.Frunze.”

During the Second World War was an officer in the composition of the Separate motor-rifle brigade of special purposes. It’s a forming part of the special forces in the NKVD of the USSR and engaged in subversive operations behind enemy lines. After the final formation of the brigade, as constituted logged about 25,000 people, including the best Soviet athletes (boxers, light- and weightlifters, skiers and others.) And 2000 foreigners including 100 Bulgarians.

A little known associate with the Soviet military intelligence was Krastana Ivanova Yaneva. She was born on October 30th, 1914 in the Visochen, Drama district, today’s Greece, in the family of a prominent Macedonian revolutionary. Her parents died when she was five years old. Raised by her aunt’s – Zlata Karaivanova, which in 1918 moved to Bulgaria and settled in Sofia. Krastana Yaneva graduated the Sofia University, as a teacher. As a student she became a member of BONSS and took an active part in the struggle of the progressive studentship. In 1939 became a member of the Bulgarian communist party. In 1941 Yaneva worked as a children’s governess at the Institute for pets (children’s home) to the Sofia Municipality. At the same time she was attracted to work in the Military Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in support of Atanas Romanov (also a Soviet agent), who was sentenced to death and executed in 1942 in Sofia. On 10th of November 1942, Yaneva was sent to work in the system of the Soviet military intelligence in Germany. That has happened by the request of Colonel Leonid Sereda, a military attache at the Soviet embassy in Sofia with the help of Stefan Bogdanov, who worked in the system of the Soviet military intelligence under the pseudonym “Arbatov.” Liquidated by the Gestapo in 1944 by guillotine.

Completely unknown to the public as a Soviet agent is Krum Petkov Kaishev. Born in 1913 in Chokmanovo, Smolyan region. As a student-chemist was brought in 1940 to the intelligence group of Stefan Bogdanov. His quarters served as a hideaway group management. After September 9th, 1944 Krum Kaishev became professor PhD in Chemical Engineering. In the period 1963-1964 he was rector of the Higher Institute of Chemical Technology in Sofia.

Nikola Raykov Belopitov is another Soviet agent who managed to survive and died in 1972. He was born on March 28th, 1901 in Panagyurishte. He is a member of the Communist Party since 1920. He studied electrical engineering in Vienna. Participated in the September uprising in 1923, for which he was arrested. After being released from custody, he went to Gdansk to continue his education. There he joined the German Communist Party and has named himself as Nikolaus Frei. In 1928, he was recruited by the GRU, and given the nickname “Paul Beckert”

In the following year he completed his studies in Gdansk and took a diploma as an electrical engineer and returned to Bulgaria. He started working as an electrician in HPP “Vacha” and has been involved in the electrification of his hometown became an employee of the Directorate General “Mail, telegraph, telephone.” These are his public activities. A conspiratorial activity is related to participation in the group of the Soviet scout Dimitar Ananiev (aka “Mimi”), in which provides access and copying of encrypted state and diplomatic bag, which is accessible account of his official position.

In 1934 he created with money from the Soviet intelligence the company “BeKoP” for production and importation of radio and electrical equipment. From 1939 was one of the radio group of the Soviet agent Vladimir Zaimov (“Azores”). He was arrested on March 23rd, 1942 in the case “Zaimov” but because of the absence of evidences is released. Immediately has restored contact with GRU and in the period 1942-44 was among the most important Soviet agents in the country. In the summer of 1944 equipping and commissioning a second illegal radio station. After September 9th, 1944 he was appointed as a Director of the General “Mail, telegraph, telephone.” Between 1947-50, he was a director of “Elprom”, then a director of the Institute Communications and from 1960 to 1963 headed the Institute of electrical engineering in Sofia.

An evil Soviet agent who lived until 9th of September and even became lieutenant-general in the communist (not) Bulgarian (anti) People’s Army is Shteryu Atanasov. Born on March 14th, 1902 in Lyubimets, Haskovo district. Member of the Communist Party from 1923, and VKP (b) – in 1925 graduated from the Communist University of National Minorities of the West (KUNMAZ) in Moscow in 1930 and this is his only “education.”

He worked in the CC VKP (b) and in the Department for International Relations (OMC) of the Comintern, which actually represented the intelligence structure of the Comintern. In 1934-36, he was posted as an agent of the GRU in Spain. Subsequently, established and managed an intelligence point of the Soviet military intelligence in Turkey through which maintain relations with Bulgaria, Greece, Yugoslavia, Spain and Moscow. In 1939 he returned to Moscow, but was soon sent to guide liaison points of the Comintern in the city of Izmail, (in now days Ukraine).

From 1942 he was part of a separate motor-rifle brigade for special purposes (OMSBON) of the NKVD, where he worked on the preparation of commandos to sabotage and intel activities behind enemy lines in Germany, Italy, Hungary, Romania and Finland. In 1943-44, he was seconded to the implementation of special tasks at the headquarters of the People’s Liberation Army of Yugoslavia. After September 9th he returned to Bulgaria and became an assistant commander of the I-st ​​Bulgarian Army. He has taken many different senior positions in Bulgarian army and until 1962 is a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. He died in 1967 in Sofia.

Another character of a Soviet agent is the Bessarabian Bulgarian by origin Zinovii Zinovievich Hristov (pseudo. “Nikolai Ivanov Dobrev ‘). Born on June 15th, 1917 in Botevo, Zaporozhye region, Ukraine. Bulgarian, who comes from a peasant family of Bessarabian Bulgarians. He is in the Red Army since 1938. In 1938-1940, he received intelligence training in the intelligence department of the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet.

In the fall of 1941 he arrives in Bulgaria by speedboat. Stayed in the city of Dobrich, with the legend that he moved here after the Bulgarian Craiova agreement with Romania. Worked of illegal items under the name “Nikolai Ivanov Dobrev.” In August 1941 settled in the town of Varna, where he found an inn as a cover for their activities. In the period October 1941 – September 1944 led intelligence group of Soviet military intelligence in Bulgaria. It works extremely disciplined without a fail. Initially transmitted information to Zara Stoykova from the radio group of Guinio Stoynev and after its discovery by August 1943 passed the info directly to the center through its radio station, located in the tailoring workshop of his friend and lover Takuhi Bedrosova. Regularly informed the intelligence department of the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet on the situation and events in the region of Varna – by land, sea and coast. Demobilized in 1946, he returned to the Soviet Union and graduated from Faculty of History of Melitopol Pedagogical Institute (1947). He became professor of history at school in the town. Nikolaev, then was appointed head of the “National Education” in the town).

Father in law of a former Foreign Minister Viktor Valkov

It is one of the most secret Soviet agents before September 9th, 1944 – Lubomir Antonov Pentiev, nicknamed “Crete”. Born on May 10th, 1910 in Shumen. He graduated law at Geneva. He was an assistant and a first deputy of Stefan Bogdanov in Sofia intelligence group.

In July 1944 the Sofia police detained Lubomir Pentiev. His deputy Stoyan Petrov Sharlandjiev managed to abscond him, he went underground and continued to work for the Soviet intelligence. Information on their activities Police received readings from Hristo Atanasov Lolov who was arrested at that time. Lubomir Pentiev was released by police on September 9th, 1944 without being tried. After that date worked in the bodies of the police. After a few years he was appointed as a Consul General in Istanbul (1948). He was ambassador to Sweden and Mali (1962-1965).

In 1961 Lubomir Pentiev was appointed of as a Chargé embassy in Syria. He was also an Acting Head of the Ministry of Foreign affairs. Recognized as ABPFK. He died on August 13th, 1970. His daughter Iskra Pentieva is the second wife of former Foreign Minister Viktor Valkov. She was born on July 20, 1947 in Sofia, she graduated in French Philology in the Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski “, worked as a translator in the “culture” of the French Embassy in Sofia, the Iraqi embassy in the” print” the MFA.

Stoyan Petrov Sharlandjiev (nicknamed “Hemus”) was a deputy in the intelligence group of the agent of the GRU Lubomir Pentiev. Born on May 15th, 1915 in the city of Melnik. Member of the Communist Party. Stoyan Sharlandjiev has completed higher education in “Chemistry”. Drawn in the Sofia’s intelligence group of Stefan Bogdanov in 1939 as a student. Then became a deputy of Lubomir Pentiev. Responsible organizer of the Sofia’s secret workshop blasts group established in village Carkva, Pernik district. Using the license number of Shumen drugstore “Alex invalid” (without the knowledge of its owner, who is a friend of Stefan Bogdanov) and it bought acetone and aluminum oxide from the central supply base “Labour” street. “Veslets” № 2. In that their activities were supported by Anushka Dragieva and Liliana Milosheva. After September 9th, 1944 is a director of the Bulgarian Cinematography.

His brother Todor Sharlandjiev (nicknamed “Rhodes”) is also an agent of the GRU. Born on January 25th, 1912 in the city of Melnik. With incomplete higher education is drawn in the Sofia’s intelligence GRU group led by Stefan Bogdanov in 1940. After September 9th, 1944 has worked in one of the Sofia the regional communist comities.

Hristo Atanasov Hristov was born on March 12th, 1916 in the city of Sevlievo. Under the leadership of Leonid Sereda, was an assistant military attaché at the Embassy of the USSR in Bulgaria (December 1940 – September 1941) and Stefan Bogdanov, Hristo Atanasov is performing special tasks in Sofia, Plovdiv, Kazanlak and in other cities of the country. In May 1944 he was arrested by the Bulgarian military counter and on June 7th, 1944 and by a court decision was executed.

Fully unknown to the public as a Soviet agent is Metodi Hristov Kirilov, born on January 4th, 1912 in the city of Radomir. Drawn into the group of intelligence of Stefan Bogdanov in 1942 as an informant. After September 9th, 1944 was a commander of the Second Infantry Division (until 1950), and with a decision of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of February 23th, 1950 he was appointed as a Head of the Political control of the army. He reached the rank of Lieutenant General. He died in 1975

Another Soviet agent is Asen Mitov Targovski and was born in the village Carkva, Pernik district. In his house was installed radio of GRU through which is engaged in the transmission of the intelligence of Budinov by the radioman Ivan Stoyanov.

Very scarce information is about Ivan Zafirov Tupachki. Hailing from Radomir villages, eventually transferred to live in Sofia. Used by the GRU (the group of Stefan Bogdanov) for the hideaway with Anastaska Topoligova is attracted to the group of Bogdanov in 1941. She has worked in intelligence gathering to September 9th, 1944 and did not committed a failure intel activity.

For GRU works and Neycho Yordanov Stoyanov (nicknamed “Dole”). Born on July 17th, 1904 in Karaumur, Silistra district. Member of the Communist Party. In 1940, he was recruited into the intelligence group of Stefan Bogdanov with the task of collecting and giving intelligence consider the area of ​​the town Rousse. In the beginning was the direct leadership to Stefan Bogdanov and after June 22th, 1941 was submitted to the leadership to Varna intelligence group.

Budinov Ivan Stoyanov was born on August 14th, 1918 in the city of Pernik. He graduated from higher education specialty “Agronomy”. Member of the Communist Party. He is attracted to the group of Stefan Bogdanov in 1942 and worked as a radio operator. His radio station was located in the village Carkva, Pernik district. After September 9th, 1944 reached the post of Minister of Foreign Trade.

The Soviet agent Svetoslav Obretenov Popov was born on November 25th, 1909 in the city of Provadia. He graduated from the State Music Academy (FTA) in 1934. From 1933 collaborates with theaters with leftist leanings “People scene”, “T35 and” realistic theater “composed songs with proletarian themes for their plays. Together with the poet Nikolai Hrelkov has drawn into his first illegal party collection of revolutionary songs “20 labor songs.” In 1935 is a composer-pianist of the Ruse theater. In the period of 1937-1941 is a teacher in Byala Slatina, Yambol and Plovdiv. In the period of August 1941-June 1943 Obretenov is a Head of the Radio Varna. As such is attracted in 1943 to work in the intelligence group of the Soviet military intelligence and has given valuable intelligence. He died on May 16th, 1955

Ivan Parvanov Peychev is another unknown Soviet agent. Born on May 15th, 1901 in the city of Ferdinand (today is Montana). Member of BKMS in the period 1919-1923, since 1924 is member of the Bulgarian communist party, and VKP (b) – 1925 started working 16 years old, graduated from high school, then he deals with painting (from 1917 to 1920 ). From February 1920 is a worker in the cooperative “Unity”, where he remained until September 1923. Involved with radio interests. In 1925 he emigrated to Moscow. He was sentenced  for 12 years in prison. Graduated KUNMZ in Moscow (1925-1928) and radio classes in Minsk (1929-1930). From May 1930 he was assistant to the services of the Executive Committee of the Comintern. He visited Greece illegally in 1933 to organize radio station with the Central Committee of the Greek Communist Party. Between 1933-1934, he was in Czechoslovakia, dealing with the preparation of radio work in different countries. In 1934-1936, he was in Bulgaria, dealing with the organization of radio communications of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

Participated in the creation of portable radios for RKKA, as well as in the preparation of a radio of the Soviet military intelligence. In 1941-1942 he again arrived in Bulgaria to build a relationship with the Sofia’s Center Bulgarian police, with the help of German specialists managed to reveal many radio groups of the Soviet military intelligence. Therefore, in the autumn of 1943 GRU sent Ivan Peychev in Bulgaria to restore some of the lost links. But he failed to get to Bulgaria, but managed to complete the task by equipment that provide Yugoslav partisans. After the coup on September 9th, 1944 worked in the bodies of the police and the Ministry of Communications.

A Soviet agent was Nikifor Yordanov Nikiforov, nicknamed “Jury”. Born on February 21st, 1890 in the city of Elena. He graduated from the Military School in 1909. The following year began his studies as a law student at the Sofia University. Interrupted in 1912, he participated in the Balkan and First World War. Continued his studies in 1918 and graduated in 1920. He was appointed as a judge, then a prosecutor in the Military Field Court, during the period from 1920 to 1923 was a lecturer at the military school, has been fired after the coup of June 9th, 1923, subsequently headed Rousse military field court. Since 1925 was a chairman of the main military Cassation Court, the chief of military justice department of the Defense Ministry.

In the period 1937-1943 he was a member of the Supreme Military Council. Freemason. Assistant and later a deputy head of the intelligence group of the GRU “Boevoy” headed by his friend Alexander Peev. Through gen. Nikiforov GRU gets all decisions to be taken at the meetings of the Supreme Military Council at the Defense Ministry, as well as confidential data on the composition of German and Bulgarian troops, the names of military units, command their stock, their weapons and dislocation, the amount of German planes in Bulgaria and at which airports are located, and what kind of armed forces are provided by the security of the Black Sea coast.

He was discharged from the army after the failure of the group in April 1943 after September 9th, 1944 he was arrested but soon released. Five years later he repressed past work of Traicho Kostov and was sent to a camp. He was rehabilitated after the April Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. In 1966 he was awarded with the Soviet medal “Red Flag” and the Bulgarian “People’s Republic of Bulgaria. He died on February 15th, 1971 in Sofia.

Thousands are the national traitors that in the period of 1919 to 1944, have sold out Bulgaria and Bulgarians to Moscow for gold and dollars.

That’s how I prepare that shameful condition that led to the assessment of the country then as “the most loyal Soviet satellite.” Muscovites have even saying this: “If the chicken is not a bird, Bulgaria – is abroad” / chicken is not a bird, Bulgaria is not abroad. I hope I am not a prophet of doom, but the choice of Rumen Radev as a president in now days and the increase in geometric progression the demonstrative pro-Moscow political cavalcade in Bulgaria, it is quite possible again to return to such a state – to the shame of the whole world. Well, we Bulgarians are repeatedly given clear evidence that if if we do not good for anything else, can serve as a bad example. It’s better than nothing.

Author: Anton Todorov, especially for Faktor.bg

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April 23rd, 1870 Bucharest, Romania, the newspaper “Drum” – Gallery Faktor.bg

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