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."more