In Moscow, representatives from the GDR State Security are told by the KGB that the complex policies of Western states towards socialist countries, especially in the economic field, are intended "to create dependency and to split the socialist camp".
The KGB goes on to say that there are representatives in the GDR as well "who, whether deliberately or not, create strong dependencies on imperialist countries through increased loans and cooperation deals with Western corporations." CPSU General Secretary Brekhnev had already drawn Erich Honecker’s attention to this fact during the Crimea meeting in 1979. The new warning is apparently prompted by the visit by Central Committee economics secretary Günter Mittag to West Germany (14-16 April), which focused on the continuation of German-German economic relations.less
22 April
1980
After a meeting of the SED Politburo, in which Central Committee economics secretary Günter Mittag reports on a visit to West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, the SED Politburo members Stoph and Krolikowski compile a dossier in which they accuse Mittag of a conspiratorial "contact with the enemy, from which consequences must be drawn regarding the maintenance of security within the GDR leadership."more
