CIA • 1989

NID: EAST GERMANY: TROUBLED 40TH ANNIVERSARY

Approved for Release: 2019/10/29 C06826775 � EAST C;ERNIANY: Truuoled 40th Anniversary East East Germany's orthodox leadership almost certainly worries that President Gorbacher's arrival today will prompt additional demonstrations and deepen the crisis facing the regime. The tenuous nature of the regime's hold on the population showed again this week when thousands of East Germans tried to board the trains evacuating the second group of emigrants from Prague to West Germany. A riot involving an estimated 1.000 East Germans and considerable police violence erupted at the railway station in Dresden on %% ednesdav when authorities tried to clear the area to allow the trains to pass...