Documents / FOIA release
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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# SECRET 12. Submit to Congress bill to adjust the Federal Civilian Personnel System for operation in an emergency. 13. Submit to Congress bill to authorize interception, and utilization of all communications crossing the borders of the United States, except official communications which by international law or agreement are immune from interception. 14. Submit to Congress bill providing for control over communications with respect to position and movement of ships. 15. Submit to Congress bill to exclude known subversives from defense plants and key facilities. 16. Submit to Congress bill to provide criminal penalties for the wilful disruption or sabotage of non-military defense communications. 17. Submit to Congress bill providing for control over telecommunications with respect to the movements of aircraft. 18. Issue Executive Order providing for the establishment of an alternate system for filing and publishing executive agency documents. 19. Submit to Congress bill to authorize the suspension of laws relating to the administration of civilian officers and employees of the United States in areas outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States affected by actions of a hostile force or person, and for other purposes. 20. Submit to Congress bill to extend the benefits of the Missing Persons Act to all civilian officers and employees in the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of the Federal Government and the government of the District of Columbia.
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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.