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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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# PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS # Phase I, July through September 17 1. Issue a Proclamation of an increased state of national emergency announcing a decision to augment the Armed Forces, including the calling up of selected Reserve and National Guard units. 2. Issue a Memorandum to the Secretary of Defense authorizing increase in strength of the Armed Forces tonew strength goals, and granting authority to order up to one million Ready Reservists to active duty involuntarily. 3. Submit to Congress standby emergency legislation (War Resources Act) providing for (1) priorities and allocations, (2) authority to requisition, (3) expansion of productive capacity and supply, (4) acquisition and disposition of real property, (5) emergency contracting authority, (6) plant seizure, (7) emergency foreign assistance, (8) price, wage and rent stabilization, (9) control of consumer and real estate credit, (10) employment control, (11) settlement of labor disputes, (12) censorship of communications, and (13) general provision. 4. Direct preparation of Executive Orders implementing the emergency authority contained in the War Resources Act. 5. Issue Executive Order providing for step-up of civil defense training and readiness measures and prescribing Departments and Agencies responsible for these functions. 6. Issue Executive Order providing for mobilization of the Nation's resources and prescribing Departments and Agencies responsible for these functions. 7. Submit to Congress a bill for the immediate augmentation of the Armed Forces providing for authority for (1) ordering all Ready Reservists to active duty involuntarily, (2) increasing the period of training and service for inductees from 24 to 36 months, (3) removing restrictions upon the territorial use of members and units of the Armed Forces, (4) extending for a period of one year all appointments, enlistments, periods of obligated service, or other military status of members of the Armed Forces in active service at the time of the enactment of the legislation. 8. Submit to Congress a bill (1) suspending existing statutory strength ceilings
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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.