CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 1, 1969
• Content Type: REPORT

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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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G 196
1 December 1969
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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East Germany - West Germany: Pankow has refused
Bonn's offer to negotiate. (Page 3)
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East Germany - West Germany: Pankow again has
assumed a completely negative stance toward nego-
tiations with Bonn.
Bonn to negotiate on Berlin matters. Pankow in-
the East Germans last week rejected an offer from
sisted once more that Bonn must sign a treaty rec-
ognizing East Germany as a sovereign state and re-
portedly broke off recently resumed discussions on
bilateral transportation and postal matters.
East German motives are not entirely clear.
The subject of dealing with Bonn will reportedly
be discussed at this week's Warsaw Pact meeting.
The East Germans may have thought it necessary to
break off contacts with Bonn lest they undercut
their argument that other Eastern European states
should delay entering into bilateral negotiations
with the West Germans.
Pankow's negative attitude poses a difficult
dilemma for the new Brandt government, which has
made progress. in inner-German relations a major
objective. It has also apparently produced a clash
between Egon Bahr of the Chancellor's office, long
a key adviser to Brandt and a major proponent of
accommodation with East Germany, and conservative
officials in the foreign ministry. In talks with
US officials Bahr has criticized the Bonn Group,
which is made up of the three Western ambassadors
responsible for Allied policy on Berlin and Germany
and a West German representative. He was partic-
ularly critical of the latter, suggesting that he
..should perhaps be replaced.
Bahr also took a negative view toward the cur-
rent Allied attempts to sound out the Soviets on
Berlin, questioning that they can be successful in
tandem with Bonn's own negotiations with the East.
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