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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# PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS # Phase III, December 1. Issue Executive Order creating the Emergency Stabilization Agency and prescribing its functions. 2. Issue Executive Order creating the Emergency Transport Agency and prescribing its functions. 3. Issue Executive Order creating the Emergency Communications Agency and prescribing its functions. 4. Issue Proclamation on censorship. 5. Issue Executive Order establishing the Office of Censorship and prescribing its functions. 6. Issue Executive Order to provide for increased control of vessels in territorial waters of the United States and Canal Zone. 7. Issue Executive Order to provide for increased control of foreign aircraft in United States air space or airports. 8. Issue Proclamation providing for documentary requirements applicable to persons seeking to enter or leave the United States. 9. Issue Executive Order authorizing the Director, Bureau of the Budget, to suspend the exercise of any functions not necessary to the national defense and transfer funds, personnel, material and facilities for performance of functions necessary to the national defense. 10. Issue Executive Order directing the Secretary of Commerce to control weather reports and coordinate civil meteorological facilities to meet requirements of the Secretary of Defense, and of the Director, OCDM. 11. Submit to Congress bill to bar legal cause of action against the United States arising out of certain combatant or warlike activities of U.S. Naval vessels.
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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.