DISCUSSION BETWEEN DERTINGER AND PUSHKIN CONCERNING NOTE ON POTATO BUGS, WEST GERMANY'S ENTRY IN EUROPEAN COUNCIL, AND DDR OPINION OF SCHUMAN PLAN

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 3, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Gernany (Russian Zones;
DATE DISTR.
3 July 1950
SUBJECT
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Discussion between Dertinger and Pushkin Concerning
Note on Potato Bags, Hest Germai ' s Entry in European
Council, and DDR Opinion of Schuman Plan
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The following is a su aty of a memorandum on a conversation held on 21 June
1950 between G. M. Pushkin, chief of the Soviet diplomatic mission to the
DDE, and Otto Dertinger, DDR flinister for Foreign Affairs? Information copies
ol the memorandum, which was presumably filed bj Deertinger, were sent to Otto
Grotevohi and Anton Ackerman, State Secretary in the DDR Foreign Ministry.
1. Dartinger asked Pushkin whether he should publish the verbal note of the DDR
to the USSR concerning the dropping of potato bags on DDR territory by USA
p arses, Pushkin replied that the Russian answer would probably be forthcoming
at the end of the week or by Monday.. June 26, at the latest, and that the USSR
would host likely agree to its pablication.e
2. Rcgirding the question of critique on the political and legal aspects of the
decision of the Bonn government to became a member of the European Council,
Pushkin believes it is the standpoint of the US-12 that, since the Bonn govern-
ment does not exist as far as she is concerned, no Soviet reaction is to be
expected In the.'near future. If, as expected, the European Council accepts
.Western Gerrexy as a member in September, then the situation will be altered.
however, it appears that the Soviet reaction has not yet been decided. .On the
other band, Pushkin clearly expects the DDR to attack vigorously and in detail
the behavior of the Bonn government.
3? Pushkin was extremely interested in the opinion of the DDE government on the
Schuman Plan, Tarticularly with regard to the economic and political background
of Western Germarils interest in it. Since the Paris meetings on the plan are
in their initial stages Pushkin and Dertinjer will continue their conversations
on this subject.
25XfA ~&gMWA: The note was published on 24 June 1950.
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