NID: EAST GERMANY: PROSPECTS AFTER HONECKER

Approved for Release: 2019/10/29 C06826773 t- D Special Analysis EAST GERMANY: Prospects After Honecker Any new leadership in East Berlin probably will continue to shun genuine reforms because they would tend to undercut the rationale for East Germany's existence as a separate German state. The recent massise exodus and the non-Communist government in Poland, howew make it i easingly difficult for East Germany to avoid change. The regime's failure to prevent more than 23,000 East Germans from fl...