Military liaison missions

The MLM teams were based in West Berlin but started their "tours" from the national mission houses in Potsdam in matte-olive-drab heavy cars.

Later agreements with the US (Huebner–Malinin, March 1947) and France (Noiret–Malinin, April 1947) had significantly fewer permitted personnel, possibly because the Allied powers did not want large Soviet missions operating in their zones and vice versa.

The Allied liaison missions, having quasi-diplomatic status, were relatively free to roam around East Germany, save for specifically designated permanent and temporary restricted areas.

However, a small number of team members were injured or killed in accidents or 'incidents', which gave rise to significant military and political tensions.

After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Nicholson's death was honored on the floor of both houses of the United States Congress, with a speech that was read into the official record.

This former British post marks the entry to former SOXMIS in Bünde, West Germany, where the Soviets lived within a British married officers' compound.
Areas permanently out of bounds to Soviet Military Missions to British Zone of Occupation in West Germany
Typical sign intended to prevent Missions from entering sensitive areas in East Germany