Black militancy amongst US troops in Germany

[Melvin Loh]

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was much racial unrest within the demoralised US military due to the Vietnam War, including on US military bases in Germany, where there were widespread fights between black and white servicemen (as had occurred in bases in Vietnam, CONUS, Hawaii and Okinawa and abord USN vessels at sea), and black militant protests among Black panther-style groups, including where some 100 black servicemen attended a leftwing student rally at the Uni of Heidelberg in 1972 IIRC. Could the KGB and East German intel services have tried to utilise this mass disillusionment among black servicemen in West Germany for their own ends, by funding and supporting such radical activity ? Could this have gone as far as encouraging systematic acts of violence by the most radical Black Panthers or other extremists in uniform against US military interests in Germany ?