Bulgarian intelligence

Julia Kristeva Denies Being an Agent of the Bulgarian Secret Services

The philosopher Julia Kristeva, who has lived in France since 1966, denied being a member of the Bulgarian intelligence services at the time of communism. She did so in a statement to the French weekly L'Obs, which claims to have found her secret agent form, the France press reported.

Terrorist Attack against US Embassy in Sofia Was Prevented Back in 1991, Ex Spy Reveals

An "ensemble cast" from international terrorist groups came together to carry out a terrorist attack with a RPG launcher against the US Embassy in Bulgaria's capital Sofia in 1991 as a warning against the United States before the launch of the Desert Storm operation against Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein (essentially the second stage of the First Gulf War or the First Iraq War), a former

Bulgaria's Ex-Spy Chief Faces New Embezzlement Charges

A second indictment will be filed on Monday against former Bulgarian intelligence head Kircho Kirov, the prosecution says.

Kirov, found guilty of large scale-embezzlement last year (becoming the first high-profile Bulgarian official sentenced to jail time), had his sentence overturned by a last-instance court.

Bulgaria deploys troops at its border with Greece

Bulgaria decided to deploy more than 400 security men at its border with Greece to prevent a possible increase in migration flow, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov announced.

The country, though, is not included, at least for now, in the route used by immigrants and refugees to reach northern European countries and refugee flow from Greece to Bulgaria is currently rare.