The Minister of Internal Affairs, Dimitar Stoyanov, reports on the coverage in the Western media of the alleged repressions against six Bulgarian dissidents who sent an open letter to the 1986 CSCE Meeting in Vienna. The letter claimed that Bulgaria does not comply fully with the Helsinki Accords on Human Rights of 1975. The Minister reports that although some measures have been taken to neutralize the activities of this particular dissident group, the official investigation has been suspended as there was a risk of further tarnishing Bulgaria’s image abroad.

Creator

Stoyanov, Dimitar

Subjects Discussed

• Perestroika
• Protest movements
• Bulgarian Communist Party. Central Committee
• Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-
• Kremlin (Moscow, Russia)
• Zhivkov, Todor
• Bulgaria--Foreign relations--United States
• Intelligence service--Bulgaria
• Bulgaria. Committee for State Security (KDS)
• Dissidents
• Bulgaria. Ministry of Internal Affairs
• Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 27th Congress
• Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1972 : Helsinki, Finland)
• Helsinki Accords
• Soviet Union--Foreign policy
• Human Rights

Locations discussed

• Bulgaria

Appears in Collections

• End of the Cold War
• Intelligence Operations in the Cold War
• Todor Zhivkov Collection

Source

• Archive of the Ministry of the Interior, Sofia, Fond 1, Record 12, File 822

Original Archive

• Archives of the Bulgarian Ministry of the Interior (AMVR)

Type

• Memorandum

Language

• Bulgarian

Publishers

• Cold War International History Project (CWIHP)

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Record ID

• 112541