 Unlike Greek and Bulgarian activists he rejected anti–Ottoman irredentism.On February 1, 1900, in Bucharest the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee (SMAC) agents killed Kiril Fitovski, who was sent by the Committee to buy weapons in Romania, but subsequently was suspected of spying on behalf of the Ottoman government.Romanian police captured the assassins Boicho Iliev and Hristo Karambulov, who made full confessions and revealed the involvement of the Supreme Macedonian Committee in the assassination.