Despite the fact that Baba Vanga (the famous Bulgarian clairvoyant) has been in the "best of worlds" for 17 years, heated debates around her personality do not stop. There are opinions of ex-KGB officers of Bulgaria and local journalists, who claimed that Vanga's predictions were "supervised" by the special services. And the grandmother herself has been registered since 1967 as a civil servant, receiving a salary of 200 leva. Interestingly, Vanga's unique talents were believed not only in Bulgaria.
“In 1974, a report came from our agent in London,” said Nikolay Stoychev, ex-major of the KGB of Bulgaria, now living in Madrid, in an interview. - It said: the highest officials in the CIA are pretty worried about the possibilities of the prophetess from Rupite. For example, Kevin Luxley, deputy head of the European department, said at a secret meeting: “Something needs to be done with her. According to the "psi-group", Vanga sees everything that happens at our military bases in Europe. " By "psi-group" meant a team of 20 psychics Dr. Edwin May, officially serving in the CIA.
At first, they tried to "drown out" Vanga in order to prevent the blind grandmother from "looking at" secret objects: but they failed. Then a rural old woman was accused of the collapse of the NATO intelligence network in Bulgaria. One of the psychics of the "psi-group", Alina Kheyvits, stated in her report: "Vanga's energy is so strong that she is able to" examine "any document on the desk of any boss in the United States." The threat posed by the grandmother was taken extremely seriously: psychics suggested … to organize an operation to kidnap Vanga in order to "make her work for us." The CIA director considered it "nonsense" not giving the idea a go.
The confrontation between the leading psychics of the West and the blind "communist from Rupite" was fierce. In 1998-2004. The CIA has declassified 73,000 (!) Pages from the archive about the work for the secret services of a clairvoyant detachment, codenamed "Project Stargate". As it turned out, among the merits of "X-men" Edwin May - the collapse of the Polish station in Western Europe and the "discovery" in the seventies of the nuclear test site in Semipalatinsk. Moreover, allegedly thanks to the "Stargate" the famous Soviet spy Aldrich Ames was exposed!
This is probably why Baba Vanga terribly unnerved the Western special services. They simply could not understand: was it possible that the blind old woman was taken into the civil service and at the same time not used in intelligence? Yes, this cannot be! The CIA allocated 2 million dollars a year for "paranormal espionage", which, of course, cannot be compared with a village grandmother on a modest monthly salary of 200 leva.
Nevertheless, Vanga was credited with a lot.
In the reports of the CIA psychics it was mentioned: she creates a "protective aura" around the leaders of Bulgaria and the USSR, and an anonymous consultant to the British intelligence MI5 accused the clairvoyant of damaging the Bulgarian dissident Georgiy Markov, who died in London in 1978. Moreover According to the information of the Lebanese newspaper "An-Nahar", in the eighties Vanga was also feared by the special services of Saudi Arabia - they assumed that the grandmother was advising the KGB of the USSR on the location of the bases of Arab militants in Afghanistan.
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“Vangu was also going to steal the Securitate, the state security department of Romania,” says Romanian historian-researcher Victor Iorga. - In one of the interviews after the revolution, the former General of the Securitate, Mihai Kitsak, told the local press that in 1979 the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu asked the head of Bulgaria, Todor Zhivkov, to "bring Vanga to visit." Zhivkov refused - he had a feeling that Ceausescu would not bring the clairvoyant back.
Soon information leaked out: "Securitate", by order of the Romanian President, was preparing to kidnap Vanga, and Rupite's security was strengthened many times over: even one anti-aircraft gun was installed in the village (!) - in case of a parachute landing. There is no documentary evidence of this plan: but, knowing Nicolae Ceausescu's deep passion for mysticism, this cannot be ruled out at all.
According to the newspaper "Bild", at one time Vanga was also visited in her house by officers of the West German special services BND, who came to Bulgaria under the guise of tourists. In 1986, they made a report that the good health of Todor Zhivkov (he turned 75 at the time) is the result of "special treatment according to the Vanga method." True, the possibility of the clairvoyant penetrating into secret documents did not bother the Germans. After the collapse of socialism in Bulgaria, as well as the collapse of the USSR, Western intelligence gradually lost interest in Vanga. In 1996, the Bulgarian clairvoyant died, and a year later the department of "mental spies" of the CIA was officially disbanded.
… We can only admire how the Bulgarian secret services and state structures professionally "promoted" the blind rural grandmother - so much so that even experienced Western intelligence specialists considered her a secret weapon of the "socialist bloc" and were seriously afraid for the safety of their military bases.
Perhaps it is sincerely a pity that our KGB in the old days ignored the services of psychics. If whole crowds of old women healers in remote Siberian villages "examined" secret NATO facilities, it would surely blow up the brains of experts from the CIA. Personally, I would not be surprised at all if Western intelligence officers spit over their left shoulder, do not cross the road after a black cat, knock on a tree and do not say goodbye across the threshold. After all, the embarrassment with Vanga only once again confirms that completely ordinary people work there. As we are.
