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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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## TOP SECRET (9) Increase manning and equipment levels in two Strategic Army Force (STRAF) division forces, to bring them up to the current readiness level of STRAC units. (10) Initiate action to return dependents and non-essential civilians from Europe. (11) Activate a portion of the naval and merchange vessel mothball fleet. 3. Concurrently with measures indicated in paragraph 2 above, a progressive balanced increase in the permanent US military establishment could be initiated.
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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.