The dossier on the involvement of Bulgaria’s President Georgi Purvanov with communist-era secret services had not been “cleaned”, according to the heads of the Bulgarian National Intelligence Service (NIS) in recent years, Dimo Gyaurov and Kircho Kirov.

The committee responsible for the de-classification of the archives announced that Purvanov worked for the services from 1989 to 1993. According to opposition leader Ivan Kostov, the Purvanov file had been “cleaned” before it was released publicly. Kostov alleged that 36 pages of the file were missing.

Current NIS head Kirov and his predecessor Gyaurov said that the file had not been tampered with during their terms in office.

Mediapool.bg quoted Kirov as saying that nothing was missing from, or had been re-arranged in, the file.

According to Gyaurov, the file had not been altered while he was NIS head, although the numbering of the pages had been changed. This was proof that pages from the file had been removed, he said.

Kirov said that renumbering of the pages had been done during the process of preserving the document.