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...Believe in Man." Next was the Rev. Yanko Ivanov, a bald, short man who is superintendent of Bulgaria's Methodist Church. Said he: "I don't believe in man because he lies frequently ... I will give you now a full account of my criminal activities, which make me ashamed ... I will say that I am a sinner...
...Ivanov said he had set up an intelligence service for Cyril Black, formerly at the U.S. political mission in Sofia and now a history professor at Princeton. Ivanov said he furnished Black with information about things like "the people's dissatisfaction with the government [and] what factories were producing what materials...
Black last week denied Ivanov's whole story. Actually all charges of espionage against Bulgarian Protestant churchmen are patently phony. As pastors of minority churches they have long been under surveillance. Said one U.S. diplomat who knows Bulgaria well: "The Protestant clergy has never been on the inside. To say that it could know about what is going on inside the government is about as ridiculous as saying that the ministers of small churches in the Washington suburbs would be effective espionage agents...
...People Not Without Sin." Ivanov tried to explain his downfall by his father's sins. "He was a small bourgeois," explained Ivanov, "a member of the Democratic Party. He left his mark...
...same time, the Bulgarian press began to publish the "confessions" of the 15 Protestant leaders indicted for treason. Methodist Yanko Ivanov was said to have admitted giving the U.S. information "on Russian troop movements in Bulgaria." Congregationalist Vassil Ziapkov was quoted: "We betrayed our Motherland, we revealed her secrets before enemies...