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Subject: RFE/RL Daily Report 25 JAN, 1993

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               RFE/RL Daily Report

                                  No. 15, 25 January 1993



BULGARIA AND DECOMMUNIZATION. There have lately been conflicting
signals on which direction Bulgaria will go on the issue of
decommunization.  Prosecutor General Ivan Tatarchev told an
RFE/RL correspondent on 21 January that he is preparing "the case
of his life" against excommunists, whom he considers guilty of
"national treason." Tatarchev spoke of two "attempts to betray
Bulgaria," the first being the 1946 communist policy to persuade
citizens in southwest Bulgaria to declare themselves ethnic
Macedonians.  The second is former president Todor Zhivkov's
proposal to integrate Bulgaria with the USSR, for which Tatarchev
said he now has evidence. However, a 21 January parliamentary
decision to prohibit the disclosure of secret police files will
probably hamper decommunization efforts. According to the
amendment of the penal code, anybody who spreads information
related to the activities of the secret police can be sentenced
to three years in jail. In the case of a government official or
if the information is spread by mass media, the jail term may be
up to six years. The amendment also precludes the issuing of
documents proving that politicians and state officials never
collaborated with the State Security, a procedure introduced by
the previous government.  Kjell Engelbrekt, RFE/RL, Inc.


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