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Bulgaria. Ministry of Internal Affairs

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Mitrokhin, Vasili

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Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich

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Mielke, Erich

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December 15, 1980	Resolution on Policy Guidelines and Missions for the Struggle against American Spies in the New Situation A resolution on combatting “American spies." The document calls for Public Security to re-interview all confirmed or suspected “CIA” agents being held in re-education camps and to conduct careful reviews of the enormous volume of documents captured by Communist forces when they took over South Vietnam in 1975 in order to identify and arrest any “stay-behind” agents of the Americans as well as former “CIA” agents who had still managed to evade detection and arrest.
December 15, 1980	Resolution on Policy Guidelines and Missions for the Struggle against Chinese Spies in the New Situation A resolution on combatting “Chinese spies” in Vietnam. The resolution directs Vietnam's Public Security to establish a special interrogation center to which all known and suspected “Chinese spies” who had been arrested would be sent for detailed interrogation by trained professionals. The interrogations would help Vietnam to identify existing Chinese espionage operations and to obtain information on the Chinese intelligence organizations, their plans, and their targets.
Date unknown	Forms, Methods, and Organization of Intelligence Work from Illegal Positions In this undated document likely from the early 1970s, the Polish Ministry of Interior offers explanations on how illegal intelligence operatives operate: what covers they use and how they can be more fully integrated into Poland’s intelligence process. The audience for the document appears to have other Polish intelligence professionals who already understood “legal” intelligence but were unfamiliar with illegals.
September 23, 1985	Telegram, Dimitar Stoyanov to Comrade Mielke The head of the Bulgaria's Ministry of the Interior informs Erich Mielke of developments in the criminal case against Sergei Antonov.
February 5, 1985	Major General Damm to the Director, Main Department II, 'Research of “STERN” in connection with the Pope assassination' Willi Damm reports that the Bulgarian security agency is seeking information a Turkish arms dealer from the Stasi about.
March 13, 1984	Telegram, [redacted] to Comrade Damm Bulgaria claims the CIA is involved in the criminal case against Sergei Antonov.
1983	Letter, Lieutenant General W. Kozew to Comrade Markus Wolf Markus Wolf learns of the latest developments in the criminal case against Sergei Antonov.
June 4, 1983	Major General Damm to Comrade Colonel General Wolf, 'Cooperation with the Security Agencies of the PR Bulgaria' Willi Damm reports to Markus Wolf that the Bulgarians are requesting assistance for "active measures" against an Italian citizen.
June 3, 1983	Information from the Security Services of the BPC: Reference Report on Case Agca Biographical information about Mehmet Ali Ağca as well as the "groundless accusations" against Bulgaria and other communist bloc states.
February 1, 1983	Telegram, Dimitar Stoyanov to Comrade Mielke The Bulgarian Minister of the Interior writes to Erich Mielke on NATO efforts to discredit Bulgaria, the Soviet Union, and other communist states following the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II.