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to the household for the terrorists. After Ponto's murder � Albrech.t arr�st sheds she went underground and later was reportedly spotted in the Mideast, at Syrian-controlled terrorist safehouses. It t on S ta� i-terror tie turns out now that she also spent some time in Czechoslo­ ligh vakia, entered from there in 1980, and applied for citizenship-which was granted her in an un­ Susanne Albrecht, a key figure in the assassination of usually short time. This affair alone indicates that the Dresdner Bank chairman J�rgen Ponto in June 1977, was ubiquitous had an active interest in letting her into arrestedby East German pc lice on June 6, a few days after the country. her return two-yea stay (she says) in the Soviet Albrecht rose in the intervening years to the level of .from a Union. For the eight years pefore that, she had lived under the privileged Reisekader, who were sent abroad by the the false name of Ingrid Jaeger in East and worked regime to work. It is rumored that in fact she has worked as a chemicals specialist ir a laboratory. in Syria for the past two years, and not in the U.S.S.R., The arrest of Albrech , and, by June 15, six other whence she returnedto East Germany by plane a few days 'safehoused "first generati< n" Baader-Meinhof terrorists, before her arrest. sheds new light on the r::>le of the East German State For years, the role of the DKP, the West German­ Security pc::>lice-the hate Stasi-in running "Western" based Communist Party, and other front organizations of terrorisrri. It also reopens �e file on the targeting of Lyn­ the East German SED regime, was well known in the don LaRouche by Commt nist secret police for well over radical anti-nuclear movement in the Federal Republic of adecade. Germany and in the Berlin-Kreuzberg terrorist scene. It LaRouche was infom �d in 1977 that his name was is also well known that selected DKP cadres were trained high on the same terroris hit-list with Ponto, a hit list in secret East German camps in conspiracy and sabotage now revealed . likely to ha e been East German- or even methods, which are strikingly similar to those of the ter­ Moscow-inspired. Ponto ad been involved in mapping rorists. The "first generation" of West German terrorists out infrastructure investm nts in the developing sector in around had direct contacts back into the ways that dovetailed wit LaRouche's famous Interna­ German Democratic Republic, and their rise in the West tional Development Bank propc::>sal of 1975. German radical left enjoyed pc::>werful backing from East Albrecht, a friend of t e Ponto family, gained access Berlin.

fact of real life. " Reiterating hat the Soviet position is that a proceeded to distribute an "International Experts' Statement united Germany "will not bt come a military power" and a on German Unification," dated May 25, 1990. Among the united Germany must "bear the burden" of East Germany's "expert" signatories were Dr. Frank Barnaby, former director economic commitments to thb Soviet Union. of the Stockholm Institute for Peace Research (SIPRI); Rear While claiming he "suppbrt� Lithuanian independence," Adm. Elmar Schmahling of the West German Navy, who was Konovalov thanked the W est �or not coming to the support of suspended for violating the official NATO secrecy codes; Dr. the Baltic states, because it would "undermine Gorbachov." Paul Walker of the Institute for Peace and International Securi­ This elicited the sharp respon e from one of the Western pan­ ty in the United States; Maj. Gen. Valentin Larionov (ret.), elists, "Do you mean to say t t the West let you off the hook?" Soviet Academy of Sciences; and Dr. Aleksander Konovalov. Directly reflecting thinki� g within the Bush administra­ The statement, subtitled "German armies must become tion and the Soviet Foreign inistry to tum the current Vien­ non-offensive," declares that a united Germany within NATO na confidence-building and fonventional forces in Europe "can easily be perceived as a grave disturbance of the existing (CFE) talks into a Congress 0 Vienna-style system, Konova­ balance of forces on the continent," and proposed that the lov proposed that such supe'jPower cooperation would help German army, by international mandate, be converted to a solve the "balkanization" in Eastern Europe, particularly Ro­ totally defensive force without sophisticated aircraftand other mania. He concluded by ag�in stating in foreboding terms weapons systems considered "offensive." According to the that the Soviet Union should Inot be pushed too hard on con­ document, this situation would be permanently guaranteed ventional arms control, beca�se "I am absolutely sure every­ through a Berlin "crisis management center" that would in­ one in Europe will enjoy a v�r dangerous result." clude the Four Powers. As frequently happens, t most interesting portion of the Our "peace research manager" guaranteed that this state­ seminar was during the drints afterward. The chairwoman, ment had been given to the highest circles in time for the "peace research manager" fro the University of Amsterdam, Washington summit.

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