 But his reports to his Stasi handlers were not restricted to things that , Egon Bahr, Otto Bräutigam and others had said at regular diplomatic receptions.Gaus' assessment, passed on by Gerstner in 1976, that the flood of applications to leave the country indicated that "the political situation in the German Democratic Republic [was] not very stable" might be seen as a simple "diplomatic report".The same could be said for the Indian ambassador's urgings concerning acceptance of educated migrants from India including the representation that "the migration policy must be made more generous".