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.
“Mission Control”2 pages
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
## SOCIAL ## ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AND THEIR POSSIBLE PHASES OF APPLICATION ## PHASE III (cont'd) 3. 2.2. MATO Powers 3.2.3. State General Comment UK thinks such action would only be useful in the event of actual Soviet interference with civilian access to Berlin. b. MKU Powers b. State b. See Appendix A. 4. Bring action to repress Soviet 4. US Justice 4. US believes measures to effect this could be legally lend-lease ships in Allied ports. instituted, but doubts that they would be successful.
Not linked to a story yet.
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.