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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.
# PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS # Phase II, September 17 through November 1. Submit to Congress bill providing for the stockpiling of selected essential survival items and authorizing appropriations therefor. 2. Submit to Congress bill providing for additional emergency funds for use by the President. 3. Submit to Congress bill authorizing installation of the NEAR system nationally. 4. Submit to Congress bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code to provide for accelerated tax amortization. 5. Submit to Congress bill to authorize revisions in tax rate. 6. Submit to Congress bill to authorize an increase in the statutory public debt limit. 7. Issue Proclamation urging improvisation and construction of fallout shelters and other related essential preparations by state and local governments, industry, commerce, and individuals. 8. Issue Executive Order establishing priorities on all construction of new Federal Buildings and diverting materials and labor to construction of fallout shelters in appropriate existing Federal buildings. 9. Issue Executive Order suspending or modifying the Presidential Proclamation adjusting imports of petroleum and petroleum products into the United States. 10. Issue Executive Order transferring the Coast Guard from the Department of the Treasury to the Department of Defense. 11. Issue Executive Order declaring the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service to be a military service and prescribing regulations therefor.
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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.