An American Banker in East Berlin – David Rockefeller’s Trip to Socialist Germany

by Marcus Dietrich June 5, 1975, was meticulously planned. After his arrival at Berlin-Schönefeld airport at 16:30, the honored guest was to be gifted flowers by a stewardess of the East German airline Interflug. Comrade Horst Kaminsky, president of the Staatsbank – socialist Germany’s version of a central bank – and a small delegation of representatives was to welcome the American arrivals. Seating arrangements in the cars taking the invited party to the guest-residence in Niederschönhausen...