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East German Intelligence Assessment of a West German Appraisal of the National People's Army: Fritz Streletz's Evaluation

27 May 1986
Description: This document is an evaluation by East German Chief of Staff Fritz Streletz on the accuracy of West German information regarding the East German National People's Army. Streletz provides his views to Erich Mielke, the minister of state security, who is responsible for the East German "Staatssicherheit" (Stasi) intelligence agency. Streletz concludes that most of the West German appraisal is accurate. He offers corrections for some numbers in the West German estimate.

Collection: A Cardboard Castle?

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Document Type: Memorandum
Sender: Fritz Streletz, East German Chief of Staff
Recipient: Erich Mielke, East German Minister of State Security
Language of Original Document: German
Number of Pages: 3
Cold War Period: 1980s
Document Source: Federal Commissioner for the Records of the National Security Service of the Former German Democratic Republic (BStU), Berlin
Call Number: Zentralarchiv, ZAIG, Information 7466, pp. 1-13

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