The Object and His Father

A video interview with a former officer from the Bulgarian State Security (full transcript in pdf). Drawings of bugs with excerpts of the recruitment report of an agent of the State Security.

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A: Maybe the interest persists because the things were not open immediately.

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O.W.: 28 years later they continue taking ghosts out of the wardrobe. I’m just fed up with it. I can’t take it anymore.

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A: As far as I understood you also took part in the burning of folders of the archives?

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O.W.: Yes of course, it was an order, I burned the folders of all my agents. I regret that as, if they still existed, everyone would see the kind of person that I was and the kind of information I demanded.