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...Today, with East and West Germany on the verge of merging into one country, the case is overshadowed and treated as a footnote to history, an almost quaint reminder of a vanishing John le Carre world in which secrets about NATO military maneuvers were of supreme importance to a Warsaw Pact nation. As Eastern Europe breaks free of Moscow's grip and the Soviet Union itself enjoys unprecedented openness, the espionage world is undergoing its own momentous changes...
...press conference in southern Africa, I was asked a similar question. I said we are a hospitable nation, and we invite a new united Germany to join the Warsaw Pact. Why not? That would be an interesting, unorthodox option. But, it is said, that would not suit the West...
...What is so bad about having a neutral state in the heart of Europe with a status that would be acceptable to all in East and West? There are also some unexpected options to think about: for example, a new united Germany with responsibilities to both NATO and the Warsaw Pact. There are possibilities for discussion here...
...would this dual responsibility to NATO and the Warsaw Pact work...
...General Staff, puts the number of troops pulling out of Hungary and Czechoslovakia this year at 35,000, plus 30,000 family members. About the same number will leave East Germany and Poland in 1990. Eventually, all the approximately half a million Soviet soldiers stationed in the Warsaw Pact countries may be withdrawn. "We will bring the troops home," said Moiseyev, "but no one has clearly thought what it will cost. Families will find themselves without apartments or work, children without schools...