E. Berlin closes affair
NZPA-Reuter E. Berlin East Germany said yesterday that it considered the affair over a senior economist, Herbert Meissner, who has returned to E. Berlin after an apparent on-off defection in West Germany, to be closed. A Foreign Ministry spokesman, asked for a reaction to Dr Meissner’s release from the East German mission in Bonn and return home after a six-day inter-German wrangle, replied, “The matter has no significance for us any more. The affair has been concluded.” East Germany had said that Dr Meissner, deputy chairman of his country’s elite Academy of Sciences, was kidnapped two weeks ago by West German intelligence agents in West Berlin. Drugs and blackmail had been used in an effort to make him defect, it said.
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Press, 23 July 1986, Page 12
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