The Committee for State Security (Bulgarian: Комитет за държавна сигурност, Komitet za darzhavna sigurnost; abbreviated КДС, CSS), popularly known as State Security (Държавна сигурност, Darzhavna sigurnost; abbreivtated ДС) was the name of the Bulgarian secret service during the Communist rule of Bulgaria and the Cold War (until 1989). Because of both the secrecy of secret services and the controversial nature of the issues involved, there is some difficulty in separating the definitions of secret service, secret police, intelligence agency etc. ... Communist Bulgaria began as the Peoples Republic of Bulgaria (PRB) in 1944, and ended in 1991. ... The Cold War (Russian: Холодная война Kholodnaya Voina) was the protracted geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States, supported by their military alliance partners. ...

Structure

• 1st Head Direction — internal intelligence work. Succeeded by the National Intelligence Service in 1990.
• 2nd Head Direction — counter-intelligence. Succeeded by the National Security Service.
• 3rd Direction — counter-reconaissance
• 4th Direction — technical work
• 5th Direction — security and protection. Succeeded by the Natinal Protection Service.
• 6th Direction — political police. Succeeded by the Head Service for Combating Organized Crime. It had the following departments:
  • 1st Department — worked among the intelligentsia and controlling the unions of artists
  • 2nd Department — worked in the universities and among the students
  • 3rd Department — responsible for the clergy, the Jews, Armenians and Russian White emigrants
  • 4th Department — specialized in pro-Turkish and pro-Macedonian nationalism
  • 5th Department — worked among the political rivals, such as the agrarians and social democrats
  • 6th Department — observed pro-Maoist and anti-party activity
  • 7th Department — information analysis and anonymous activity
• 7th Direction — information work

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Activity

State Security played an active part in the so-called "Revival Process" to Bulgarianize the Bulgarian Turks in the 1980s, as well as writer and dissident Georgi Markov's murder in London in 1978 known for the "Bulgarian umbrella" that was used. The Turks in Bulgaria have lived in the Balkans since the end of the 14th century, after the Ottoman Empire began to establish its existence on the Rumelian lands. ... Georgi Ivanov Markov (March 1, 1929 - September 11, 1978) was a Bulgarian dissident. ... London is the capital city of England and of the United Kingdom, and is the most populous city in the European Union. ... Design of the weapon. ...

An issue often raised by the international community is State Security's alleged control of the weapons, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, gold, silver and antiques traffic through Bulgaria before 1989.^{[1], [2]} Because of this, it is popularly thought that the organized crime in the country in the 1990s was set up by former State Security agents.^[3] Organized crime is crime carried out systematically by formal criminal organizations. ...