After a noisy public discussion and a long expert research on 19 December 2006
the Law for Access and Disclosure of the Documents and announcing affiliation
of Bulgarian citizens to the State Security and the intelligence services of the
Bulgarian National Army was adopted by the 40th National Assembly.

Seventeen years after the changes Bulgaria reached the agreement to collect the
documents of the former secret services, to protect and preserve them as history
and to give the citizens access to them.

It is not a lustration law by nature. Its application has a moral meaning. History
is the best teacher for the future. But only when the society finds out the truth - be
it pleasant or unpleasant. When the secrets are unveiled and the lessons of the
past are followed.

It was time for us to shed ourselves even from the last dark dependances between
those people who were subordinate to the link that the former State Security created.
Such dependances that formed in them the state of mind that they were more
priviledged, different, and more informed. People, who have always tried, during
all the years of transition, to be Bulgaria's puppeteers.

Truth is often painful. Let us all make our own assessment - in terms of our own
prejudices, understandings, and knowledge of the time.

Do not expect the committee that has the duty to implement the law, to become a
tribunal or a critic. Our task is to lift the curtain. Then the audience will be the
one to choose whether to applaud or to hiss the actors that were directed by the
former secret services. Like every other show, this also has its good and bad
actors. Let us leave it for everyone to make his own choice. We believe that the
society will be the best judge because it has the right to know all about itself.