In a memo on a conversation with the Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss, SED foreign currency procurer Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski records Strauss as saying that Helmut Kohl had a "bad team" and was showing "serious leadership faults as Chancellor."more
The French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius becomes the first government leader from the three Western Powers to go on a state visit to the GDR.
11 June
1985
In the biggest spy exchange of the Cold War, 25 Western agents are swapped for four Eastern agents on the Glienicke Bridge between Potsdam and West Berlin.
John Kornblum, U.S. diplomat
on the spy exchange at the Glienicker Bridge border crossing on June 11, 1985
Wolfgang Vogel, East German lawyer
on the exchange of 25 American agents against four eastern agents at the Glienicker Bridge border crossing on June 11, 1985
Eberhard Fätkenheuer, East German citizen who worked as an American spy,
on his exchange at the Glienicker Bridge border crossing on June 11, 1985