WHAT IS THE MARKOV FILE?

The file now known as the 'Markov File', is a compilation of documents that was placed in the British House of Commons Library in February 2000, and
then disappeared. Other copies of the file, which had been kept at the author's home, disappeared also, following a covert entry by the Security Services.
Following complaints, the House of Commons copy reappeared again in August 2000, by which time the Joint Intelligence Committee had set up a top level
censorship committee, the existence of which was reported in the Sunday Times on 21st May. Some of the material in the file was posted on former MI5
officer David Shayler's web site in November 1999, and caused the Security Services to heavily spam the site for months so as to make the material difficult
to access.

The file describes how the Secret Intelligence Service (also known as MI6) used a double agent to trick the communist Bulgarian Intelligence Service into
murdering the Bulgarian writer and broadcaster Georgi Markov in London in September 1978 in circumstances that would be very embarrassing for the
Bulgarians. Markov was unpopular with powerful colleagues at the BBC, who were connected with the British Security Services, and was excessively

critical of the BBC's much vaunted 'neutrality'. Subsequently, in August 1985, it was revealed in the British press that BBC Foreign Section Heads were
required to sign the Official Secrets Act, and were in effect in double employment.

In 1985, the Bulgarians uncovered the double agent that had tricked them into murdering Markov. Her discovery (she was a British woman who had posed
for years as a communist) gave the KGB and the Bulgarians a powerful weapon that they have used periodically against the Foreign Office ever since -
notably to prevent the arrest of the Bulgarian culprits and to induce Western complicity in two attempts to bring down reforming governments - successfully
in 1992 and unsuccessfully in April 2000.

The file also describes how British newspaper owner Robert Maxwell received compromising documents relating to the Markov case from former
Communist Prime Minister, Andrei Lukanov in September 1991 - thus resulting in Maxwell's murder by MI6 a few months later, and a very crude media
cover-up in Britain, necessitated by the damning evidence pointing to Maxwell's murder that had appeared in the French press.

Lastly, the file contains a documented account of the abortive KGB-led Moscow Coup of August 1991, which was triggered by events in Bulgaria, in which
the author was directly involved.

The author is motivated by his knowledge of the incompetence of MI6 in the Cold War and since, and by its refusal to accept any significant oversight by
the British Government and the British Parliament, while interfering in domestic politics by means of leaks aimed at damaging governments and individual
ministers who dare to show the slightest independence in their dealings with the Security Services. The latter have proved by their murders and the legislation
that they have forced through Parliament that they have no respect whatever for law and traditional liberties.

Copyright Gordon Logan 2000

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