Comment of East German Defense Ministry on Assessment of Adversary's Intelligence on Development of Warsaw Pact Forces and Armaments12 Nov 1987 |
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Description:
This document assesses the informational value of a NATO document on the development of the Warsaw Pact forces and armaments. The East German Ministry of Defense prepared the document and concludes that the NATO document has a relatively high value. The NATO statements regarding military policy, military training and leadership, deployment of nuclear weapons outside the Soviet Union, and branches of the East German army are discussed in detail. On a number of crucial issues, the East German MoD cannot comment since it does not have the information.
Collection: Stasi Intelligence
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Document Origin (Agency): Ministerium für Nationale Verteidigung, GDR Sender: Heinz Keßler, Minister of Defense Destination (Agency): Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, GDR Recipient: Erich Mielke, Minister of State Security Language of Original Document: German Number of Pages: 9 Cold War Period: 1985-1991 |
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Document Source: Federal Commissioner for the Records of the National Security Service of the Former Democratic Republic (BStU), Berlin Call Number: ZA, Sekretariat Neiber 185, pp. 185-193 |