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".more
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."
The dossier says that Honecker and Mittag are not interested in upholding the overall interests of the socialist community of states with regard to West Germany; it claims that Mittag did not behave towards Schmidt "as a representative of the solid socialist community of states and its unified foreign policy, but as a participant in a German-German flirtation."
Notes on a report by Günter Mittag while a meeting of the SED-Politburo, 22 April 1980 (in German)less
