Candidate for MEP and singer Etienne Levy was an agent of the Sixth Directorate of the DS. He was recruited less than a year before Todor Zhivkov's regime was overthrown.
This is according to the data of the Dossier Commission.
Etienne Levy was nominated by the "Velichie" party. The data shows that he was registered as a DS agent on 12/12/1988. He was taken from the active operational report in 1990. He was listed as agent "Panayotov".
A total of 79 agents of the State Security and intelligence services of the BNA appear in the lists of people's representatives for the 50th National Assembly and for the European Parliament.
List of the parties and coalitions that nominated members of the DS for the 50th National Assembly
Coalition "The Left": ABV, "Movement 21", "Green Party", Agricultural Union "Al. Stamboliyski“, “National Movement for the Salvation of the Fatherland“, “Political Movement – social democrats“ – 10 associates;
Party “Bulgarian voice“ – 8 associates;
„Coalition of the Rose“: „Bulgarian Social Democracy – Euroleft, “United Bloc of Labor Bulgarian Laborists”, “Patriotism 2000” – 6 associates;
VMRO party – BND – 5 associates;
Party “Morality, Unity, Honor“ – 5 associates;
Coalition “We, the citizens”: party “Bulgarian Spring“, party “Who– competence, responsibility and truth“, “Bulgarian Workers' and Peasants' Party“,
party “Nation“ – 5 associates;
Coalition “BSP for Bulgaria”: BSP, “Political Club Ecoglasnost“, “Political Club Trakia“ – 5 associates;
Coalition “Solidary Bulgaria”: party “Stand Up Bulgaria”, party “Bulgarian Left“, party “United Social Democracy“ – 5 associates;
Coalition “Center“: party “Freedom“ and “Bulgarian Agricultural Party“ – 4 associates;
GERB/SDS coalition – 3 associates;
Coalition “Neutral Bulgaria”: Communist Party of Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party, Party of Bulgarian Communists, “Russophiles for the Revival of the Fatherland“ – 3 associates;
Party “Revival“ – 2 associates;
Party “For Greater Bulgaria” – 2 associates;
Party “Unity“ – 2 associates;
DPS – 1 contributor;
Green Party – 1 contributor;
Bulgarian Union for Direct Democracy – 1 contributor;
Party “Bulgarian Rise” – 1 contributor;
Party “Majesty“ – 1 contributor;
Party “Bulgarian National Unity“ – 1 contributor.
We remind you that
The sixth administration of the DS was the main weapon of the Politburo of the BKP in the ideological opposition to the West.
It was created way back in 1967.
The main directions in which the Sixth Administration begins to work purposefully are the intelligentsia, the youth and the clergy. Not only non-party artists are under surveillance, but special attention is paid to those party members who think differently from the party.
The Sixth Directorate of the DS is the first main structure of the DS, which the new leadership of the BKP in the person of Petar Mladenov hastened to close after the forced resignation of Todor Zhivkov on November 10, 1989.
At a secret meeting with the top leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Security on November 25, 1989
Mladenov proposes to publicly announce that the Sixth Administration, against which there was public intolerance at the time, was closed. At the same time, Mladenov explained to the DS generals that the personnel of the ideological government would not be sacrificed. That's how it happens.
Although the closure of the Sixth Directorate was announced, it continued to function until January 1990, when State Security was transformed into new special services. One part of operatives from the Sixth Directorate of the State Security Service was transferred to the National Service for the Protection of the Constitution (counterintelligence), and another to the newly created Central Service for Combating Organized Crime in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.