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Gen. Lyuben Gotsev
At the age of 90, Gene died at home that night. Lyuben Gotsev. This was announced for “24 Chasa” by his friend Viktor Valkov.
Gen. Gotsev is a man with a significant presence in the political life of Bulgaria. In recent years, the former Foreign Minister in Andrei Lukanov’s government has been in poor health. However, this year he celebrated his 90th birthday three times at the legendary Monterey restaurant. Together with Viktor Valkov, they are the founders of Monterey Circle, which tells hundreds of stories related to staffing and political appointments during the transition.
General Lyuben Stoyanov Gotsev is a politician from the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) and successor to the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), Wikipedia writes.
He was Minister of Foreign Affairs in the second government of Andrei Lukanov in September-December 1990. First Deputy Minister of the Interior (1989-1990), Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (1982-1989). Deputy Chief of the First General Directorate of State Security (1974-1982).
Lyuben Gotsev was born on March 3, 1930 in Sofia in a family of shepherds. His father became a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party after the 9 September coup and his mother is nonpartisan.
He became a member of the Workers’ Youth Union immediately after September 9, 1944 as a student at the 7th Men’s High School “Chernorizets Hrabar” in Sofia. In 1946 he moved to the “Hristo Botev” Construction Technical School, where he graduated in 1948. After graduating from high school he began working in the “Direction of Tramways and Lighting” as a draftsman until mid-1949. At that time He was president of DSNM in the “Modern Suburb” neighborhood and participates in the brigade movement. In July 1949 he was retired to work in the Regional Committee of DSNM – Dimitrovski district in Sofia, where he headed the department “High School Youth” until September 1950, when he entered the School of Reserve Officers (SHO). He was promoted to the rank of junior lieutenant as a soldier, and after his service in the Bulgarian People’s Army (BNA) he was sent to a unit of the Internal Troops. In 1952 he was accepted as a member of the Communist Party of Bulgaria. Dismissed at his request by the Internal Troops in December 1953, he joined the Dimitrovsky District Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party in Sofia as technical secretary and later as political assistant to the first secretary of the party’s regional committee. Then he became a school instructor.
In 1955, at the suggestion of the Dimitrov District Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, he was sent to study in the USSR, at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). As a student he was a group leader in the organization of the Bulgarian student party at the Institute, and from 1956 to 1958 he was a member of the party office. Despite the 6-year educational course at MGIMO, at his request he was allowed to complete it in 5 years. In 1959 he was sent for two months to the Bulgarian embassy in London. He graduated from the Institute in 1960 with a BA in International Relations (Western Countries), after which he briefly entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He applied for a position in the Ministry of the Interior and after the corresponding investigation in June 1961 he was appointed full-time employee in the First Directorate of State Security (intelligence). In November 1961, he was sent to a one-year KGB intelligence school in the USSR, where he graduated with honors. However, the document issued by the KGB for Gotsev’s training pointed out some weaknesses that he had admitted during practical tests. After returning from school in the Soviet Union, he worked as an operative in the First Directorate of State Security, Department 03 “Western Countries”.
He has worked for international organizations, Western Europe, the United States and Canada, and is a diplomat for the Permanent Mission to the United Nations, New York (1963-1968, 1971-1974). In the period 1974-1982 he was Deputy Chief of the First General Directorate (Foreign Intelligence) of State Security. He held the positions of Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs (1982-1989) and First Vice Minister of the Interior (1989-1990).
Gotsev led the BSP campaign headquarters from March to June 1990, when he was elected to the 7th Grand National Assembly and chairman of the parliamentary National Security Committee. In the fall of 1990 he was briefly Minister of Foreign Affairs in the second government of Andrei Lukanov. From February to December 1991 he was ambassador to the Netherlands.
In 1992 Lyuben Gotsev retired from political life and spent some time (1993 to 1999) in private business. He was one of the founders of the Movement for Unity and Development (called “general movement”) in the BSP in 1997. According to writer Georgi Stoev, Gen. Lyuben Gotsev is the true godfather of the so-called Bulgarian mafia.
He is married with 2 daughters, 2 granddaughters and 2 grandchildren.
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