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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.
“The Advance”7 pages
# TIME TABLE OF MAJOR MILITARY ACTIONS 15 - 31 July 1961 1. Increase draft calls. 2. Expand military and industrial production base. 3. Increase production rates of non-nuclear ammunition and selected supplies and equipment. 4. Commence prestocking essential non-nuclear weapons and supplies in Europe. 5. Prepare to conduct naval and air harassment measures. 6. Review readiness status of all STRAC units and supporting units, together with appropriate sea and air support, and insure capability for early deployment. 7. Take steps to insure an improved ability to rapidly deploy troops to Europe by means of MAT8, CRAF, and MSTS. 8. Prepare for utilization of aircraft at war-time rates. 9. Initiate measures to increase readiness of US and allied forces in Europe to include continued efforts to complete tripartite allied planning tasks. 10. Increase combat readiness of selective reserves preparatory to call-up. 11. Initiate measures to increase readiness for general war. 12. Begin filling
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 163 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.