About the archive

Where the data comes from

The archive holds the decisions of the Committee for Disclosing the Documents and Announcing the Affiliation of Bulgarian Citizens to the State Security and the Intelligence Services of the Bulgarian National Army, published on comdos.bg from 24 April 2007 on. Each decision was downloaded from comdos.bg and read automatically; each page links back to its decision and to the original file.

Where this page and the decision differ, the decision is right. Please tell us through the contact form and we will correct it.

People

A person is on this site only if the Commission has declared their affiliation. The same person declared in several decisions (on each new check for another post) has one page with all of them.

The archive also names the deceased persons whose affiliation the Commission established but, by Art. 30, para. 1, item 1 of the law, did not announce. The decisions give only their number; the Commission’s register of checked persons names them, with the date of the check and what it was for. For them the archive says only “affiliation established”: the register does not say to which service or in what capacity.

Officers

The officers are named only as the decisions write them, in the records of the persons they recruited or handled. One page is one written name. The same three names in different districts may be different men; a shorter form („Ст. Лозев“, „Стефан Лозев“) is shown only as possibly the same, never merged. Where the editors have decided that two forms are one man, the page says so, with the date of the decision.

What the archive cannot show

A large part of the State Security archive was destroyed in 1990, and the Commission can declare only what the remaining documents show. A name missing here proves nothing. Where a decision records that a file was destroyed, the person’s page marks it.

How the reading is checked

Every record is checked automatically against the rules of the decisions, and samples by hand against the decisions themselves. The decisions of 2007–2008 printed in two columns are read separately and are in the archive.

Names and birth dates are also compared with the Commission’s register of checked persons. Where a decision gives no birth date, it is taken from the register, and the person’s page says so.

Under some records stands “The Commission notes”: a remark from the decision itself, for example that the Commission has no other data on the person. It is quoted word for word.