Stoycho Rangelov Donev

Public record

Compiled from publications and official records as of 31.10.2026. Every statement links to its source; claims made by others are marked as such, with who makes them. Quotations in English are our translation.

Communist Party and State Security

• Agent ШИШМАНОВ of the Sixth Directorate. The website agentibg.com, which publishes archive data on State Security collaborators, lists him as an agent with the pseudonym ШИШМАНОВ, recruited on 6 February 1975 by Цеко Цеков in the Sixth Directorate of State Security through the medical line, on an ideological and political basis, in a single conversation. From the end of 1978 he was handled by the Sofia City Directorate of the MVR-DS, department 06. Senior Lieutenant Борис Илиев and Senior Lieutenant Сл. Протогеров also ran him. According to the site he was then a doctor in the anatomy and histology department of the Medical Academy. — agentibg.com, 30.10.2015
• Reports on colleagues and foreign specialists. His working file contains written reports on his colleagues and on foreign health specialists who visited the Higher Medical Institute after 1975, agentibg.com writes. One of his first tasks was to clarify the links of an associate professor with foreign students; the Sixth Directorate had signals that this man took bribes for exams. According to the site he later also reported on staff caught in corruption with foreign students and on contacts of Bulgarian specialists with Bulgarians whom the regime listed as „изменници на родината“ (our translation: traitors to the homeland). — agentibg.com, 30.10.2015
• Struck off the register in 1989. The document of 18 January 1989 that removed him from the city directorate's agent apparatus notes, according to agentibg.com: „Досега обаче съществена информация с оперативна стойност не е получавана.“ (our translation: So far, however, no essential information of operational value has been received.) The reason given is that his information was in most cases of a general character because his contacts were limited to his department. — agentibg.com, 30.10.2015
• 1990 letter to the interior minister. His file preserves a letter of 5 December 1990 to Interior Minister Пенчо Пенев, signed with the pseudonym ШИШМАНОВ, written when the Тамбуев commission was pressing for access to the MPs' files. In it he writes that „винаги съм се стремял да казвам истината и съм се стремял да не оклеветя“ (our translation: I have always tried to tell the truth and not to slander), and calls the Grand National Assembly's decision to open the files „емоционално и необмислено“ (emotional and ill-considered), agentibg.com writes. — agentibg.com, 30.10.2015
• On the Факс list in 1991. His name was among the 7th Grand National Assembly deputies published in April 1991 in the newspaper Факс, shortly before the parliamentary inquiry commission of Георги Тамбуев announced its results. After the scandal the commission's work was suspended. In September 1991 he told parliament he wanted the collaborators made public and said: „Аз лично не съм викан и никой не ме е питал за обяснение.“ (our translation: Personally, I was never summoned and nobody asked me for an explanation.) — agentibg.com, 30.10.2015
• Declared only in 2001. The commission headed by Interior Minister Богомил Бонев did not declare his name in autumn 1997, although his file holds handwritten agent reports. He was first named officially in May 2001 by a decision of the Методи Андреев commission when it checked the members of parliament, agentibg.com writes. — agentibg.com, 30.10.2015