Nen Link auf Memo findet man beim englischen Artikel, der beim TP Artikel (ich habe ihn nicht gefunden...):
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/32235-document-12-dennis-ross-memorandum-strobe-talbott
Daraus eine Passage:
First, they feel they were snookered at the time of German
unification. As you noted with me, Baker's promises on not
extending NATO military presence into what was East Germany
were part of a perceived commitment not to expand the Alliance
eastward.
In addition, the 1991 promise to begin to transform
. NATO from a military alliance into a Political alliance
was part of the Soviet explanation for accepting a unified
Germany in NATO.