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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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# MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT Subject: A Study Regarding Berlin Prepared in Response to NSC Directive No. 58 of June 30, 1961 The Interdepartmental Coordinating Group on Germany and Berlin has prepared a report in response to the NSC Directive of June 30, 1961 (National Security Action Memorandum #58). This report is not an attempt to evaluate the merits of the courses of action described in the various attached papers. It is rather an effort to describe the courses of action in sufficient detail to permit judgments to be made concerning them. A discussion of the decisions required to carry out these courses of action follows immediately. The report itself is organized into a summary of the development of the courses of action through the projected crisis period, which summarizes the integrated timetable, followed by these annexes: Annex A - Integrated timetable of actions. Annex B - A detailed examination of military preparations. Annex C - Permanent increase in U.S. military strength (not yet available). Annex D - OCDM submission. Annex E - A detailed examination of the covert actions. Annex F - A detailed description of the economic countermeasures. Annex G - An analysis of the effect of the courses of action on the United States economy and balance of payments. Annex H - A detailed examination of the public information aspects. Annex I - Preliminary considerations on the timing and nature of negotiations on Berlin. Annex J - Considerations affecting Western attitude toward East German personnel on access routes (checkpoint procedures).
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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.