Пеню Костадинов - заложникът на ФБР
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The book is about an operation conducted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation against a Bulgarian man, Peniu Kostadinov, during the Cold War. The FBI took advantage of Kostadinov's "contact" with an American student and arrested the Bulgarian "on the spot", and then launched an anti-communist (anti-Bulgarian) campaign. As Kostadinov was sent to jail, the FBI tried to use him for its own purposes. The Bureau added him on a list of spies which were being considered for a future spy swap with the communist bloc. Furthermore, the FBI, or rather the CIA, used the Kostadinov case in a massive secret anti-Bulgarian operation of Western special services, as a result of which the Bulgarian intelligence community was implicated in the 1981 attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II. The plan may have been to recruit Kostadinov to the American side and use him in a new propaganda campaign. But this never happened because the FBI correctly concluded that he would not accept such a proposal.
