 But the same cannot be said about Gernstner's string of communications about East German citizens turning up, without official permission, to take part in receptions at West German embassies, nor about his digging around to identify Wolf Biermann's contacts.There was nothing innocuous about handing over a text critical of the government drafted by Wolfgang Harich, or the details of what was said at a meeting involving Manfred Krug in the private home of a US citizen.In his defiantly self-justifying composition, the author of the autobiography recalls nothing about those reports to the East German security services.