Word: east
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such unanimity exists concerning the policy we shoud adopt on German reunification as does on the problem of West Berlin. The present divided Germany, though, holds dangers for both sides. East Germany might embarrasingly erupt into rebellion against its masters, and the West might eventually face an independent West German attempt to negotiate with Moscow over East Germany. Thus preserving the status quo offers no ultimate solution...
...Marxist world converged on Moscow for the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. Red China's Chou En-lai arrived by plane, leaving Mao and the rest of the Chinese leadership behind, obviously preoccupied. In Chou's wake moved lesser lights, ranging from East Germany's Walter Ulbricht down to James Jackson, the U.S. Communist Party's secretary for Southern and Negro affairs...
...thin, small, birdlike man, peering through heavy horn-rimmed glasses, was presented to reporters in West Berlin last week as the biggest spy catch in years. His name: Siegfried Dombrowski. His former job: deputy chief of East Germany's military espionage organization, innocently called "Administration for Coordination." Dombrowski, 42, told newsmen he had defected "several months ago," and brought with him long lists of agents and dispatches that he had turned over to the "proper Western authorities." The total East German apparatus, he declared, involved control of 60,000 agents, with 13,000 of his own agents working undercover...
...industries. They have had a bad year. The chief of a West Berlin refugee camp for Russian and Polish defectors last month was arrested and reportedly confessed that he had been working for the Communists since spring. The potent Investigating Committee of Free Jurists, whose network of spies in East Germany helps make life miserable for the Red rulers of that unhappy state, suffered a series of body blows: one of its top officials was exposed by the East Germans as a former Nazi youth leader; another was captured by the Reds when he went for a sail alone...
...dozens of spy organizations. East and West, continue trading lefts and rights in Berlin, the climate around them is changing. While applauding the Western underground's previous services against the Reds-which include everything from smuggling out scientists to sending anonymous warnings to East German authorities that their misdeeds are being recorded -Berlin officials and newspapers have begun to suggest that some of the spook groups are overdoing...