Top secret intelligence files now made public have revealed that back in 1971, the intelligence service of Bulgaria's communist regime plotted and nearly realized a plan to cause a conflict between Greece and Turkey, and embarrassment for the United States, by setting on fire the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (Istanbul).
Communist Bulgaria, formally known as the People's Republic of Bulgaria (1944-1989), came into being after the Tsardom of Bulgaria (1878-1944), the successor of the medieval Bulgarian Empire, was occupied by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II.
After then Bulgaria's elites were persecuted and purged, a puppet communist regime was installed which became an obedient Cold War satellite of the Soviet Union within the Communist Bloc, and its two formal organizations, the military Warsaw Pact, and the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon).
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