31 January 1965 · Hidden in vehicles
Kuo Ying-Hu's Mercedes: three people in the boot
A Chinese journalist living in East Berlin, who had permission to drive his Mercedes into West Berlin, tried to take three people from Pankow, born in 1904, 1934 and 1960, out in his boot.
Kuo Ying-Hu, born in Jakarta in 1938, had studied journalism in Hamburg and at the Free University of West Berlin before moving to the GDR in 1958, where he finished his studies in Leipzig and later taught at the university's East Asian institute. By 1965 he lived in Berlin-Treptow as a freelance translator, held Chinese citizenship and – on the application of the Chinese embassy – had a long-term permit from the GDR foreign ministry to drive his Mercedes into West Berlin.
At about 7 p.m. on 31 January 1965 he was stopped leaving through the Friedrichstraße/Zimmerstraße checkpoint. In the boot of his Mercedes controllers found three people from Berlin-Pankow with the same (redacted) surname, born in 1904, 1934 and 1960, whom he had intended to take to West Berlin without inspection.
Kuo was arrested and the Stasi continued its investigation. The report does not say what happened to the three people found in the boot.
Sources
- Jahrgang 1965: Festnahme eines chinesischen Staatsbürgers wegen Fluchthilfe – Einzelinformation Nr. 82/65, 1 February 1965Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv (DDR im Blick)
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