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This Top Secret study by the Interdepartmental Coordinating Group on Germany and Berlin, dated July 12, 1961, and released by the Central Intelligence Agency, answers NSC Directive No. 58 of June 30, 1961. It sets out courses of action for the Berlin crisis but does not judge their merits. It covers imminent presidential decisions, a three-phase timetable running to January 1, military preparations and mobilization, covert action, economic sanctions, public information, negotiating positions and checkpoint procedures for East German personnel.
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## SECRET ## 6. Special Radio-TV Programming In support of the President's reports to the nation, a carefully spaced series of radio-TV speeches should be scheduled by appropriate members of the Cabinet including the Secretaries of State and Defense and the Director of USIA. Cooperation of the major radio-TV networks should be anlisted a view to producing a series of network shows dealing with various aspects of the Berlin situation. These presentations could include panel discussions and documentary films. (Action responsibility: State, Defense.) ## 7. Instructions to United States Chiefs of Mission Appropriate briefing material should be sent to the Chiefs of United States Missions overseas for the purpose of providing them with the essential facts relating to the Berlin situation and the basic elements of the Western position on Berlin. Mission Chiefs should be instructed to approach appropriate officials of the governments to which they are accredited with a view to explaining to them the background of the Berlin problem, and, where appropriate, pointing up the nature and implications for their countries of the Soviet threat. Mission Chiefs should be urged to exercise initiative in presenting the Western point of view on Harlin developments in contacts with prominent individuals and groups in the local community. In this connection speech outline material should be provided which could be adapted for local use. (Action responsibility: State, USIA.) ## 8. Provision of Background Material to Foreign Media United States Missions abroad should make available on a continuing basis, to local information media and to opinion molders (individuals and organizations) appropriate information materials relating to the Berlin situation. Such materials should include books, pamphlets, and other publications, film strips and documentary films. (Action responsibility: USIA.) (Note: Preparation of these materials (Action responsibility: USIA.) (Note: Preparation of these materials is already underway.)
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 163 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.