The former head of the Sixth Department of the communist State Security - Dimitar Ivanov, confirmed and denied a number of rumors related to Levski football players from the past
"Georgi Asparuhov was a State Security officer. Major Georgi Asparuhov - a state security officer. What should he be like when he is a full-time officer as a football player for Levski-Spartak, which is a departmental team, Levski to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. What should he be like? "They were all officers from the system," Ivanov shared in the podcast "ON GUESTS with Anno and Vankata - The Brothers."
He also commented on the film "Gundi - Legend of Love," which tells how Asparuhov refused to cooperate with the State Security.
"This is some kind of artistic technique in which artists who do not know life in those times think that they are creating some kind of artistic plot, some kind of artistic interest by making everyone out to be an oppositionist. It is not true."
"I did not know Asparuhov personally, but my boss in the State Security, under whose wing I grew up all the time, was a member of the Levski-Spartak Bureau. Every now and then, a football player from Levski would stop playing and he would take him and appoint him somewhere in our system. It was easy, they were all officers. They simply transfer from Levski to the Sixth Department or to the Sofia City Department, or somewhere else."
"By the way, I have worked with Pavel Panov, with Georgi Tsvetkov, with the guy - Ivan Stoyanov, they were extremely serious guys and extremely modest. Even while they learn a little about operational work - he comes a deserved Master of Sports, a favorite of women, comes to the operational service and becomes a quiet, very ethical guy. And Gundy was an idol to all of them. Another thing, Gundy's wife was also an employee of the ministry," Ivanov said.