Standart News

An ad hoc inspector will be a watchdog of the intelligence service. He will be the “eyes and ears” of PM Boiko Borisov who will assign the post to a nominee of the Chief of the Intelligence Service. This is provided in the new State Intelligence Agency Act worked out by the Security Council. The public debates on the new act will start within a week’s time, Secretary of the Council Georgi Krastev told The Standart.
According to the draft act, the intelligence services will be demilitarized and report to the Council of Ministers. Currently they are under the ferule of the President. President Plevneliev has already approved the idea to devolve this responsibility to the Council of Ministers while he will be in charge of the National Bodyguards Service only. So far there was a tacit rule that foreign intelligence doesn’t work in Bulgaria, the territorial domain of the counterintelligence, which is currently a department of the State Agency for National Security. However, now experts think that there are operations which foreign intelligence may carry out in Bulgaria. Such is the case of the suicidal bomb attack at the Burgas Airport. It requires that the investigation should launch the operation in Bulgaria and seek the contractors of the terrorist attack abroad.
Panayot Angarev