Hi. WHBM. Thanks> This answered a lot of my questions. One final question I have.
The Soviet stance on East Germany's Western State visits changed when Mikhail
Gorbachev came to power. He approved a visit to Bonn 07/08 June 1987. There
were State visit by Honecker to the N.L. in June 1987, and Belgium in October 1987.
For these visits, a special IL62 Personal aircraft was used in Interflug (IF) colours.
His Butler would accompany him, armed, and wearing at Interflug uniform. Do you
know if these special flights would have been given "Special authority" by the Soviets
to use to Western corridors ? or would have to fly around them ? also are you aware
of "Special callsigns" used {Similar to Airforce One) when carrying Honecker ?