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Dissidents targetted by the regime (upper row l to r): Traicho Belopopski, Alexander Iliev, Blago Slavenov (bottom row l to r) Nikola Kostov, Stefan Svardlev, Theodor Dimitrov

Bulgaria's 'murder bureau' targetted emigre dissidents

Bulgaria's Communist-era security agency, the dreaded Committee for State Security, maintained a top secret unit in charge of kidnapping, discrediting and killing of Bulgarian émigrés around the world long before the notorious assassination of writer Georgi Markov in London in 1978, it can be revealed.

The secretive Cold War structure, dubbed "Service 7" was set up in mid-1963 and by 1972 was engaged in at least ten covert operations against Bulgarians who had fled Communism and settle...

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Dissidents targetted by the regime (upper row l to r): Traicho Belopopski, Alexander Iliev, Blago Slavenov (bottom row l to r) Nikola Kostov, Stefan Svardlev, Theodor Dimitrov

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