/Pogled.info/ The great Rodolfo Peykov, born on September 22, 1939 in Rome, has died, Rumen Petkov announced on Facebook, as chairman of the General Assembly of the International Institute for Security and Cooperation . He notes Peykov’s ancestry and anti-fascist history:
Asen Peykov‘s father was one of the great minds in Bulgaria and Italy, with more than 1300 works, including the statue of Leonardo at the Rome International Airport. He emigrated from Bulgaria because of his communist beliefs and because he was persecuted by the authorities in the mid-1930s.
Rodolfo himself worked for more than 30 years with the US Drug Enforcement Administration, appointed at the request of President Kennedy, who had the pleasure of attending a ceremony to elect him as Chief -seat of the United States.
Rudy himself has worked for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in the US, Greece, Italy, Germany and several other countries in his role as DEA – Europe. Together with him, we are among those who founded the International Institute for Security and Cooperation in 2008. In Sevlievo, we made a house museum of the Peikovi family. And this man, born in Italy, who worked for the US Drug Enforcement Agency, proudly gave his father and uncle documents showing the struggle against Nazism in Germany – he was proud of his background anti-fascist field and belonged to Bulgaria.
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He was born on September 22, 1939 in Rome, Italy. The only son of Assen Peikov – one of the main figures in Italian sculpture, a follower of the Roman plastic school, the author of more than 1300 works, the most popular of which is the statue of Leonardo da Vinci at the entrance of the international airport in Rome.
For more than 30 years, Mr. of Justice. In this field, he had several positions in several countries: Greece, USA, Italy, Germany, etc.
His last job, before his retirement, was with the European DEA.
Mr. Rodolfo Pejkov was a member of AFFNA – Association of former Federal Narcotics Agents, as well as a member of INEOA – International Association of Drug Enforcement Officers.
One of the founders (2008) and a popular lecturer at the International Institute for Security and Cooperation in the field of counter-narcotics and international terrorism.
photo: UNSS