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Subject: Re: USA/GDR DataBank - Perestroika OnLine
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Date: 25 May 89 16:56:20 GMT
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In article <436bc561.14a1f@gtephx.UUCP>, covertr@gtephx.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes...
>In article <1884@ccnysci.UUCP>, patth@ccnysci.UUCP (Patt Haring) writes:
>> The Council on USA-GDR Relations is a nonprofit, nonpartisan 
>> association of United States citizens who support improved economic,
>> cultural, and political relations with the German Democratic
>> Republic.  The Council is self-supporting and receives no funds
>> from any government.
>> 
> 
>I wonder if they consider secret funding from the KGB ??
> 
>and what do they consider 'government' anyway??
> 
> 
>I have heard of these folks before, and they are definitely funded
>by the East Germans and the Soviets!!

I can believe that the US side of this organization is non-governmental. 
Could you say the same about it's Soviet (GDR) counterpart?  As a former 
Soviet myself, I know that there is no non-government councils on Soviet
-(any country) relation.  Moreover, all of these councils are controlled 
by the the central Council of Unions for Frendships with Other 
Countries, the chief of which used to be a member of the Communist Party 
Central Committee.  So much for independence.  It is the same situation 
as with the Physicians for Peace (or something like that) organization 
that got a Nobel Peace Price.  The Soviet part of the organization was 
chaired by late Brezhnev's personal physician who is now the Minister of 
Health Services in the USSR.

Good luck dealing with the "independents"!

Leo Simon