Several American aircraft flying along the border had been shot down, and a number of planes sent directly over Soviet military installations had been attacked.
Another was how the United States would make sure no prohibited missiles were being produced in Soviet installations.
The Reagan Administration expressed concern about the recent expansion of a Soviet military installation.
Intelligence decided to take orbital satellite photos of Soviet installations, but only if they could get a bird up there that would be reliable.
He said he had received no reports of any the weapons being used against Soviet installations in the republic or against opponents of independence.
Initially, Moscow said the Soviet installation would only be dismantled if the other two were also disassembled.
To pass the time, the young Afghan staff members told me about their time in the jihad when they bombed Soviet installations from the mountains.
"The story he handed me was that we had stumbled into a most sensitive Soviet military installation."
There were nearly 1,000 Soviet military installations in the former East Germany.
It was a commando raid, he guessed, something against a Soviet installation in the city or somewhere near.