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Secret documents from beginning of transition period should already be available: historian

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There are probably many hypotheses about the intertwining of interests between business, politics and services in the documents of the Bulgarian services, especially those about the 1990’s. If they have no legal value, they will have at least information value, historian Momchil Metodiev, author of books dedicated to the State Security told BNR.

 According to the Classified Information Protection Act, all “Top Secret” documents should be declassified 30 years after their issuance and “Secret” documents should be declassified 15 years after their issuance, Momchil Metodiev pointed out. “Confidential” documents should be declassified 5 years after their issuance.

In other words, in 2020 we should have access to all "Secret" documents issued until 2005, or since the beginning of the transition period in Bulgaria, Momchil Metodiev said.




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