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September 10, 1989	Letter from GDR Ambassador to Hungary, Gerd Vehres, to Foreign Minister Osker Fischer A letter from Gerd Vehres to Oskar Fischer detailing aspects of his conversation with Rezso Nyers in Vehres complains about Hungary opening its border to allow GDR citizens to illegally travel to Austria.
September 5, 1985	Transcript of the SED Politburo Session held on 5 September 1989 A transcript of an SED Politburo Session discussing Hungary's decision to open its western border and allow East German citizens to cross into Austria.
December 23, 1955	Journal of Soviet Ambassador to the DPRK V. I. Ivanov for 23 December 1955 Ivanov meets with GDR Ambassador Richard Fischer, who reports although GDR Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl and Kim Il Sung have spoken about strengthening GDR-DPRK relations, East Germany is currently unable to supply further material aid to the DPRK.
December 10, 1955	Journal of Soviet Ambassador to the DPRK V. I. Ivanov for 10 December 1955 Nam Il explains that the shortcomings and mistakes of a few individual Soviet Korean party members have aroused hostile sentiments against Soviet Koreans as an entire group.
March 10, 1961	Letter from M. Pervukhin to V.V. Kuznetsov about the GDR disapproving of Czechoslovakia and Romania developing relations with West Berlin Ambassador Pervukhin reports that the GDR disapproves of Czechoslovakia and Romania's attempts to establish ties with West Berlin.
August 25, 1953	Stenographic Transcript of Conference with the Delegations that Returned from the GDR Report of a Moscow delegation on their impressions of the situation in East Germany. They describe grievances at the root of the June 17 uprising and make suggestions for improvements to the GDR factory system.
September 9, 1960	Journal of Soviet Ambassador to the DPRK A.M. Puzanov for 9 September 1960 Puzanov and Jeong Il-yong discuss the Soviet construction advisory committee's visit to the DPRK. GDR Ambassador Kurt Schneidewind informs them of the new entry process for West Berlin citizens traveling to socialist countries.
September 8, 1960	Journal of Soviet Ambassador to the DPRK A.M. Puzanov for 8 September 1960 Puzanov and Nam Il discuss the DPRK delegation to the funeral of the president of German Democratic Republic Wilhelm Pieck.
August 3, 1953	Report, Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, US Defector Johnson Carlos Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs report regarding a private in the US forces who crossed the demarcation line Urfar and requested asylum.
November 10, 1989	Letter, General Secretary of the SED Egon Krenz to General Secretary of the CC CPSU Mikhail Gorbachev General Secretary Krentz reports to Gorbachev that East Germany has allowed GDR citizens to cross the border to West Berlin following mass protests at the Berlin Wall and its checkpoints. Of the 60,000 citizens who took advantage of the open border, reportedly 45,000 returned to East Germany after visiting the west.