Ianko
N. Iankov
Speech
at the International Conference
"Opening the archives of totalitarian
secret services in Bulgaria. The memory of
past in the name of the future "
July 20th , 2006, Hall 6, National Palace of Culture, Sofia
"Opening the archives of totalitarian
secret services in Bulgaria. The memory of
past in the name of the future "
July 20th , 2006, Hall 6, National Palace of Culture, Sofia
Ladies and gentlemen,
I.
First
of all, I would like you not to be surprised, and mostly not to be angry with
the words, that I will begin with.
Although
my experience of many years has clearly shown to me that, on forums dedicated
to quite prosaic topics as the one of our present
meeting, as a rule it is not pleasant and customary
to use examples from the world's literary classics, yet I will start with such
an example.
As
you know, at the end of the Second act of "Hamlet"
Shakespeare introduced a scene in
which a group of theatre actors, specialized in tragic performances,
arrive at the King's Court to entertain the representatives of the
highest authority, and the topic chosen for entertainment of the
authorities, is the grief of Hecuba - the widow of the
Trojan King Priam, which is mourning over the murder not only of her
husband but also of her son.
It
seems to me that in the context of the literary and historical analogy, today
we could ask ourselves: "Like the previous forums dedicated to this topic
over the last 17 years, isn't our conference, too, ultimately only
psychotherapy for some, an occasion for theatrical stage performances of the
actors from the political arena and entertainment for the authority elite?"
In the context of
literary classics, I call your attention to the fact that Hamlet, obsessed of inconsolable grief over his
recently killed father, is very impressed, while watching the performance,
not at all by the conduct of the criminal highest authorities, but exactly by
the pretended grief of the actor entering into Hecuba's
part and sobbing inconsolably on behalf of her; and he cries out:
What's Hecuba to him,
or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her? What would he do,
Had he the motive and the cue for passion
That I have?
That he should weep for her? What would he do,
Had he the motive and the cue for passion
That I have?
From the tribune of this conference today I turn to
the representatives of the criminal authority[1]
and the actors entertaining them, declaring: "I am here to say again
that I have never stopped and shall never stop insisting on prosecution
of anyone, whose criminal activity is reflected in the records of the so-called
archives of the government, and therefore to insist on absolutely full
information access to any document in those archives."
II.
Undoubtedly,
at least some of those present know that I am exactly the one who first
questioned the need for full access to all records of the criminal
communist government, that it had happened on the "Free
Europe" radio only twenty days after my release from prison in
late autumn of 1989, and that this position was then vigorously and
passionately defended in my activities as a participant in the so-called "National
Policy Roundtable" and as a deputy of the Grand National Assembly.
Most of those
present are certainly very well aware that, addressing the issue of irresponsibility
for committed crimes, the functionaries of Bulgarian State Security
Agency excellently knew and used the argument of Joseph Foucher that
in a country, being in a state of instability, the ruling class can
maintain its power by stamping as suspicious every true patriot, who can
confront her, as declaring suspect a true patriot – it is a sentence
that takes away from him/her the most valuable he/she owns - his/her
praiseworthy past, trust and respect, without which he/she cannot be vested with
authority by which to demand validly and concretely a penal prosecution of
government because of their crimes committed.
And since, long
before that, it has been quite clear to the criminals from communist supreme
authority that I shall be one of the few persistently
motivated for demanding penal responsibility, they had taken care to
set up that forged document, which subsequently became known as “the
file of agent Kirilov".
Here, in this hall,
today there is at least one of those people who, by their signature as members
of an official state Committee, in May, 2001, have made the commission of another corpus
delicti of a relatively complex scheme of criminal activities of State
Security Agency therein. It's about the fact that in the special Report,
signed by the members of this Committee, publicity has been given to a forged
document, cruelly offending me, without me, ever before that, being informed
of its existence and without being given any opportunity to become acquainted
with its content, and defend myself.
Even more - despite the
great number of my extremely active formal written protests for several years
after this public insult to me, I had absolutely no chance to get any access to
the fake document concerned.
Thus, being placed
in the grips of an almost complete inability for defence, I undertook a
strategy, with which I gave exactly 19 (nineteen) notarized powers of
attorney, by which I authorized prominent metropolitan journalists and
experts to have unlimited access to all documentary arrays associated with my
name. In my particular letter to the Chief Prosecutor and Minister of
Interior (published in Volume 6, pp. 409-432 of my documentary
book) I pointed out that the effect of that move of mine was astounding - all
bearers of those powers of attorney turned out to be subject to extremely
intense and even sinister pressure to quit their documentary interest
demonstrated by them, as eventually, and after quite ominous mishaps, only one
of the authorized persons succeeded in doing so, that the Minister of
Interior was forced to give access to the so-called "agents
file".
III.
Very
shortly thereafter, on August 4th, 2003, the
independent expert-criminalist, the specialist in graphology Dimitar
Genadiev Kostov signed and made notarial attestation of his "Protocol
No 56" according to the text of which: handwritten texts in
both cases of the so-called "agent Kirilov" "are
not written by the person Ianko Nikolov Iankov" and the
signature of the so-called "Application" for
undertaking agent’s functions "is not placed by the person Ianko
Nikolov Iankov".
Then, on
August 20th, 2003, (registration No 3588) I submitted an
application to the Chief Prosecutor, in which I asked "an
investigation case to be initiated and prosecution to be made of all guilty
persons committed the series of crimes" referred to in the
top-secret archival cases specified by me.
Both in that one in
and other applications I have explicitly and clearly stated:
► that on pp. 9-18 of the case, filed in my name, No 24491 LDOR "The Stubborn" it has been explicitly and clearly stated that in reference to my discredit special production of fictitious identity documents had been assigned, as I specifically asked for divulging of the names of experts and investigating the individuals which had ordered the perpetration and engaged in that specified counterfeiting activities;
► that on pp. 9-18 of the case, filed in my name, No 24491 LDOR "The Stubborn" it has been explicitly and clearly stated that in reference to my discredit special production of fictitious identity documents had been assigned, as I specifically asked for divulging of the names of experts and investigating the individuals which had ordered the perpetration and engaged in that specified counterfeiting activities;
► that pp.
11-16 and pp. 188-193 of the same case contain explicitly
formulated plans of events that must prove to people, I contacted with, that,
on one hand, I am not quite normal, and, on the other hand - I
am an associate to the militia (the State Security Agency);
► that on pp.
119-120 of the case, filed in my name, No 13304
(arch. No 33464) has been explicitly and clearly stated that for the
implementation of the so-called "effective control over the
subject" it had been assigned to the First Department at the Fourth
(scientific-technological) Bureau of the State Security Agency to
draw up "handwritten
texts, made by the subject", i.e. to draw up forged documents, as if
they were written by me, which had been to be submitted both to Western
journalists, and to all Bulgarian colleagues with whom I communicate;
► that on p.
76 of the case filed in my name No 21441 DOR
"Dragon" has been explicitly and clearly stated that it had
been assigned to the Second General Bureau of the State Security Agency
in collaboration with the First Department at the Fourth (scientific-technological) Bureau of the State
Security Agency to use my real letters and to make the so-called "combinations
of texts" which, then, to be submitted to the Western embassies in
order to discredit me before them.
IV.
Thus,
even after some vicissitudes on February 2nd, 2004, the
military prosecutor V. Chavdarov issued a "Decree for initiation of
preliminary proceedings", with which it has been directed for an
investigation to be taken "against an unknown official from the
Ministry of Interior" because he/she has committed "manipulations
with documents" the result of which are harmful effects caused to the
civil person Ianko Nikolov Iankov (see Appendix No 1).
And finally, on
May 9th, 2006,
(i.e. just two months ago) the military prosecutor Capt. Edward Vladimirov
has issued a "Decree for termination of the criminal proceedings"
since ... "the criminal liability is extinguished due to expiry of
the statutory limitation period" (see Appendix No 3).
Aside from the mockery
by the allegation for an "unknown perpetrator" and
references to the "expired limitation period" (as in
the case there is absolutely no such period), I should be satisfied by the
formal recognition that in this case I am a victim of a criminal activity, but
to those who would dare to ask this from me, I would like to wish them the same
"happiness". Because, in fact, what was done to
me is that, in a masterly adaptive way, only the form of criminal abuse and
repression has been changed.
Moreover, I insist to explicitly and clearly emphasize that I believe my "special case" is not accidental at all.
I
call your attention to the fact definitely established by me that the
only most strictly and precisly respected "legal" regulation in
Bulgaria is the one issued on June 2nd, 1947, in Moscow - Top
Secret Tutorial of KGB[2],
in art. 41, which said: "Do not allow the
rehabilitation of people convicted of political processes. However, if such is
required, it may be permitted, provided, not to undertake any investigation and
prosecution of the guilty people".
This instruction of
the KGB is strictly observed by the "justice" to all Bulgarian heads
of state, parliaments and governments from its issue until today. A small detail is,
of course, the fact that the Bulgarian branch of the KGB has long been
transformed (or transmuted) in the Red Mafia, which has turned not only
the country but also an extremely large part of the society into its
low-hierarchical internal structure, as a result of which the President, the
Parliament's Chairman and deputies, the Prime Minister and ministers, the Chief
Prosecutor and all the participants in justice, the leaders of parties and
other public organizations are not only part of the system of the
mafia, but also have much lower hierarchical status than, for example, the
heads of the structures in drug business or prostitution.
A small detail is that
the Bulgarian branch of the KGB once led us "to the East"
to "the dawn of communism" and the Red Mafia is now
legitimized as "a democratic partner" of Europe and that it is the
one entrusted to lead us "to the West", to "the capitalism and
democracy".
A small detail is also
the fact that the archives are closed precisely in order to ensure the
existence of all this extraordinarily sinister and anti-human mechanism of functioning
of the authorities.
V.
Still,
the described case with the false agent's file in some terms may be regarded as
"one of the most innocent cases".
Today
I brought here, to show you, some of my documentary books - these are six
large-format bulky volumes of the book "Identity Card. Political
Documentaries" and two other books - "Political Murders.
First Book. Who Killed Volodya Nakov, Documentaries" and
"Secret Services and the Scientists at the Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences and Sofia
University. Political Documentaries,
First Book".
I
explicitly emphasize that the most part of the contents of these books consists
of a description of crimes, the truth about which is contained precisely
in the archives of the government and about which there is still
no justice, primarily because of the criminal misprision of this
truth and the obstruction of justice by erecting the contents of these archives
into state, national or private secret.
Along with
everything else, in these books two murders, committed by members
of the State Security Agency, come
into question – the murders of my brother Kamen Iankov and Volodya
Nakov. From these books you will know that I have never stopped writing and
demanding justice for these murders, and that, in response, I have always
received various forms of mockery from the authorities.
In two of the books
you will read that after the 32-years old Volodya Nakov was
murdered in prison, in September, 1985, a "top secret
operational plan" had been immediately drawn up and entered into
effect for several years, under which his 22-years old widow Edith
had been subjected not only to extremely humiliating and inhumanly cruel
blackmails and murder threats of her three children, but also forced to
satisfy the sexual urges and fantasies of over 15 officers from the State
Security Agency, as "the operation" had been implemented so
that to be ceaseless - one of the officers goes out and another one from the
list enters the flat, and in certain cases, so that several people to be with
her at once, before the eyes of the children (in order to see with the cost of
what their life is redeemed).
And to those who
today, including here, on this forum, plead for "reconciliation",
"forgiveness" and "special and limited access to
the archives" I propose to answer my question: "Were
they going to sing the same tune if anything like that had happened to their
family members?".
VI.
In
these books of mine you will read not only tragic, but a number
of "funny" things too, about which, in
fact, much more details are being contained exactly in the archives of
the government.
With
reference to that, let me just mention, by the way, that, according to my
calculations, still preliminary and very incomplete (since I had access to only
about five percent of the documentation concerning me!):
1)
Only in reference to my unlawful conviction and staying in prison
had been involved (and I had been actually an "employer"
of) more than 200 (two hundred) agents, confidants and officers of the State
Security Agency;
2)
Many of them received the highest remuneration for their activities especially nowadays, after the so-called
"political changes", as they became prominent businessmen,
democratic generals, supreme court judges, constitutional
court judges, ministers and deputy ministers (including
the Ministers of Interior and of Justice), the Chief Prosecutor, prominent
functionaries of the Parliament, distinguished diplomats;
3)
Even more - one woman became a judge in Strasbourg and another - a
judge in The Hague.
VII.
Thank
you for your attention, ladies and gentlemen!
[1] To avoid any misunderstandings, let me emphasize that in
my submission, the changes in 1989-1991 have only transformed the
classic communist regime into neo-communist (Mafia), by which
the criminal nature of authority is left completely intact and
only some of the methods and forms of its operation are changed, as well as the
members of the elite attended by that authority.
[2] Top Secret! KAA/08.113, Moscow, on 02/06/1947, Instruction
NK/003 - 47, the text was published in the newspaper "Sensation"
issue 2 of 1991.
