USA uses Bulgarian
intelligence service in the Balkans - Montenegrin daily
BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - June 14,
2006
Excerpt from report by M.V.R. and D.Z: "Bulgarian spies followed
Pedja" published by Montenegrin newspaper Dan on 13 June
The
chairman of the Socialist People's Party [SNP - Predrag Bulatovic] who is also
the leader of the pro-union bloc was being followed by foreign intelligence
services. This fact was confirmed by Georgi Koritarov, member of the Bulgarian
State Security Service, in his confession published by the Belgrade-based Blic
newspaper. He admitted that this service was very interested in Montenegrin
opposition leader Predrag Bulatovic.
[Passage omitted: Parts of the Blic
article]
Military-political analyst Milovan Drecun believes that the
fact that foreign intelligence services were following Montenegrin opposition
leader Predrag Bulatovic is not an unexpected development, considering the fact
that he has so many supporters that it was always a possibility that he might
take over as the leader of Montenegro. He believes that there was a time when
such an event definitely did not suit the American interests in the Balkans.
"Lately the Bulgarian intelligence service has become a faithful long
arm serving the American interests in the Balkans. Three American bases are to
be opened in that country, but it is particularly interesting to note that the
Bulgarian intelligence service now has a new role to play in the Balkans.
Whenever the American intelligence services cannot or do not want to do
something efficiently, they do it through Bulgarian services. My sources tell me
that Koritarov's statement is absolutely true," Drecun says.
He adds
that everything the Bulgarian intelligence service has been doing in Montenegro
and Kosovo-Metohija has been done on behalf of the USA and in the course of
executing orders issued by its intelligence services.
"One former
Bulgarian general from the Macedonian area is intensely busy among members of
the Albanian National Army [ANA] and the [Kosovo] protection corps. His task is
to control actions of the Albanian mafia and [Kosovo politician] Hasim Taci,
because America is starting to lose control over that mafia.
[Passage
omitted: Drecun comments on other alleged Bulgarian intelligence services'
activities
He points out that, beside the CIA, Al-Qa'idah has its
headquarters in Sofia, too. Its head was the ideologist of this terrorist
organization, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and then his brother Muhammad.
"Daut
Haradinaj, brother of [former Kosovo Prime Minister] Ramus Haradinaj, visited
Sofia in order to contact him after Kfor arrived in Kosovo. Daut Haradinaj is
the main connection between the former KLA [Kosovo Liberation Army], which has
now become the Kosovo Protection Corps, and Al-Qa'idah.
[Passage
omitted: Drecun says that Bulgarian intelligence services helped dissolve
Serbia-Montenegro]
Source: Dan, Podgorica, in Serbian 13 Jun 06, p7
Copyright 2006 British
Broadcasting Corporation
Posted for Fair Use only.
Quiet Bulgarian
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/dan061406.htm
