Report on the 23rd CMD Meeting19 Dec 1988 |
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This document is a report to East German leader Erich Honecker about the proceedings of the 23rd session of the Warsaw Pact's (WP) Committee of Ministers of Defense (CMD) in Sofia in 1988. Among the questions discussed are the publication of statistical details on the respective force levels and armaments of NATO and the WP as well as organizational changes in the WP based on the new defensive military doctrine. Furthermore, the report addresses the unilateral disarmament steps by the Soviet Union and cites remarks by the Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov on domestic developments in Bulgaria. Collection: Defense Ministers
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Report Origin (Agency): Ministry of Defense, East Germany Sender: Heinz Kessler, Minister of Defense, East Germany Recipient: Erich Honecker, Head of the National Security Council, First Secretary of the SED Politburo, East Germany Language of Original Document: German Number of Pages: 9 Cold War Period: 1985-1991 Persons: Gorbachev, Kulikov, Iazov, Zhivkov |
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Document Source: Federal Archives of Germany, Military Branch (BA-MA), Freiburg i. Br. Call Number: DVW 1/71051 |
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