August 20, 1968
Secret Decree of the Council of Ministers of the PR of Bulgaria for the Participation of Bulgarian Troops in the Warsaw Pact Operation in Czechoslovakia
Ministry of National Defense
Cabinet of the Minister
Ref. No 00968/20.9.1968
COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
Top Secret
Copy No 1
DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
20 August 1968
RE: Providing military assistance to Czechoslovak Communist Party and Czechoslovak people
In response to the CSSR party and state officials' request to the USSR and the other allied states for rendering military help to the Czechoslovak people for liquidation of the threat to the existing socialist system in Czechoslovakia, which arose from the counter-revolutionary forces in the country who conspired with enemy powers, and having in mind the existing contractual agreements,
THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS DECREED:
People's Republic of Bulgaria shall participate, together with the Soviet Union and the other Warsaw Pact states, in the operation for providing assistance to the Czechoslovak people in their fight against the Counter-revolution.
The execution of this Decree is assigned to the Minister of National Defense.
CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS: (signature) Todor Zhivkov
FOR THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS: (signature) M. Iliev
Verified, CHIEF OF GENERAL CHANCELLERY DEPARTMENT
(St. Tzonev)
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- Czechoslovakia--History--Intervention, 1968
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Central Committee
- Bulgarian Communist Party. Central Committee
- Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Central Committee
- Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
- Prague Spring
- Intelligence service--Bulgaria
- Bulgaria--Foreign relations--Communist countries
- Bulgaria--Armed Forces
- Bulgaria--Foreign relations--Soviet Union
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