Disambiguation evidence for Bulgarian State Security (DS) via surface form

"Bulgarian State Security"


As subject (46)

Triples where this entity appears as subject under the label "Bulgarian State Security".

Predicate Object
alliedAgency KGB
archiveStatus subject to post-communist lustration and disclosure processes
associatedWithPeriod Cold War
country Bulgaria
surface form: People's Republic of Bulgaria
dissolvedAsConsequenceOf democratic changes of 1989 in Bulgaria
employer secret police informants
employer state security officers
governedBy communist one-party state
historicalReputation repressive state security organ
ideology Marxism–Leninism
influencedBy Soviet security doctrine
instanceOf intelligence agency
instanceOf secret police agency
involvedIn Cold War espionage
involvedIn monitoring of Bulgarian émigrés
method arbitrary detention
method infiltration of organizations
method interrogation
method mail interception
method psychological pressure
method surveillance
method wiretapping
nativeName Държавна сигурност
nativeNameLanguage Bulgarian
notableCharacteristic close cooperation with the Soviet KGB
notableCharacteristic extensive surveillance of the population
notableCharacteristic repression of dissent
notableCharacteristic use of informant networks
operationalPeriod communist era in Bulgaria
operationalScope domestic
operationalScope international
oversightBy Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party
surface form: Bulgarian Communist Party leadership
partOf Eastern Bloc security apparatus
politicalAlignment Bulgarian Communist Party
primaryFunction counterintelligence
primaryFunction domestic surveillance
primaryFunction foreign intelligence
primaryFunction political repression
regionServed Bulgaria
shortName DS
subordinateTo Ministry of the Interior of the People's Republic of Bulgaria
surface form: Ministry of Interior of the People's Republic of Bulgaria
successor post-communist Bulgarian security and intelligence services
targetedGroup ethnic minority activists
targetedGroup intellectuals critical of the regime
targetedGroup political dissidents
targetedGroup religious activists