Committee for State Security State Security played an active part in the so-called "Revival Process" to Bulgarianize the Bulgarian Turks in the 1980s, as well as writer and dissident Georgi Markov's 1978 murder on Waterloo Bridge in London known for the "Bulgarian umbrella" that was used. An issue the international community often raises is State Security's alleged control of the weapons, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, gold, silver, and antiques traffic through Bulgaria before 1989. It is popularly thought that organised crime in the country in the 1990s was set up by former State Security agents. The agency is often incriminated with the ill-famed murder of
Ricin James Mattis, and the other to Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral John Richardson. Ricin has often been used as a plot device, such as in the television series "Breaking Bad" (Season 2, Season 4 and Season 5). Ricin pellets were also used as the murder weapon in the "NCIS Season 7 Episode 21 – Obsession" The popularity of "Breaking Bad" inspired several real-life criminal cases involving ricin or similar substances. Kuntal Patel from London attempted to poison her "controlling and selfish" mother with abrin after the latter interfered with her marriage plans. Daniel Milzman, a 19-year-old former Georgetown University student,