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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 7. Possible naval and air exercises and deployments could include: a. Deployment of elements of the Second Fleet to war stations, exercising from British ports and in the Norwegian Sea. If this movement were carried out during July or August, and compensating adjustments made in normal movements of other fleet units, no significant additional costs are foreseen. b. Deployment of a tactical fighter force of five squadrons to Europe, at an estimated post of $2,078,000 for a 21-day exercise. 8. It should be noted that the above described activities are possible actions which might be employed in an effort short of war to deter the Soviets from initiating a Berlin crisis. These actions along would not materially improve the US capability to engage either the GDR or Soviet Bloc forces in a non-nuclear war, but in conjunction with other military and non-military measures world-wide could have some deterrent effect.
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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.