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Bulgaria’s Participation in the System of Joint Acquisition of Enemy Data (SOUD)
Valeri Katzounov
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0173-5004
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Bio(b. 1953), holds master’s degrees in history (specialising in archives) and philosophy. He received his PhD in history in 2000, after the defence of the dissertation entitled ‘Formation, development and dynamics of the Bulgarian national self-consciousness in the seventh–fourteenth cc.’ In 1989–2007, he was senior assistant professor at the Department of Archives and Documentation, Faculty of History, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. In 2007–2012, he was a member of the Commission for Disclosure of Documents and Announcing Affiliation of Bulgarian Citizens with the State Security and the Intelligence Services of the Bulgarian National Army (member of the Commission and supervisor of the Commission’s Archives), in 2013–2014, he was a senior assistant in the Department of the Bulgarian Historical Archive at the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library, and in 2014–2018, he was the
director of the Scientific Archive of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej 1944-1989, No. 18 (2020), pages: 447-456
Publication date: 2023-03-29
https://doi.org/10.48261/ARPRL201816
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Abstract
The System of Joint Acquisition of Enemy Data (SOUD) ushered in a new stage of the cooperation between Bulgaria, the GDR, Mongolia, Poland, Cuba, Vietnam, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the USSR in the sphere of intelligence and counterintelligence. Its ideology and organisation were designed by the Soviet Union – an initiative that started in 1975. The system was inaugurated and came into force in 1981. By the end of 1989, when it started falling apart, there was an intense and active exchange of intelligence data between the member countries. Over this period of time, Bulgaria collected information on 17,000 persons and Moscow on more than 260,000. This information was shared with the rest of the SOUD member countries.
Keywords
wywiad • kontrwywiad • SOUD • agent • tajne służby • bezpieczeństwo państwowe • KGB intelligence • counterintelligence • SOUD • agent • Secret Services • KGB • State Security
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The text is based on documents preserved in the Archives of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Архив на Министерството на външните работи – AМВР)
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