Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume X, Eastern Europe

264. Telegram From the Embassy in the German Democratic Republic to the Department of State.¹

278.

East Berlin, January 27, 1984, 1240Z

SUBJECT

• Asylum Seekers in Berlin.

1. Confidential—Entire text.

2. The FRG PolCouns told us that as of this morning January 27, there were asylum seekers present in the UK and French Embassies and the FRG Permanent Mission in Berlin. He would not add more except that the FRG Mission faced a difficult situation which may involve three separate cases, all of whom entered the FRG Mission this morning.

Ridgway

1. Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC Cable File, Europe (State) NODIS IN (01/21/1984–04/23/1984). Confidential; Immediate; Nodis.