The Soviet Union proposes an international agreement on the demilitarisation of space and, at the same time, greater cooperation in space research.
22 August
1985
The West German domestic intelligence agency, the "Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution" ("Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz"), announces that Hansjoachim Tiedge, the man in charge of counter-espionage against the GDR, has disappeared. The following day, the East German state-run news agency ADN reports that Tiedge has defected to the GDR.
