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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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## SECRET Nature of Allied Harassment, Countermeasures or other Action Countries Taking Action PHASE III (cont'd) US Action Agencies General Comment 6. Initiate harassments similar to those in 5 directly above for Soviet Zone of Germany and/or bloc rail and inland waterway traffic. 6. US, UK, France, Federal Republic 6. State Defense 6. UK thinks such action would only be useful in the event of actual Soviet interference with civilian access to Berlin, and not necessarily then. 7. Expand export control measures against bloc, including selective embargo. 7. NATO Powers 7. State Commerce Treasury AEC 7. US, UK, and France have no legal problems. Re US, see Commerce Appendix C. 8. Harass Soviet trade missions, including Antorg offices. 8. NATO Powers 8. State Commerce Justice 8. US has no legal problem. 9. Implement countermeasures against USSR and "GDR" in form of controls over transport. Measures to be taken here are those listed in Phase III, Item 5, for US, UK and French action. At this point, they should be taken by all NATO Powers, plus additional powers where appropriate, as needed. 9. NATO Powers, plus others 9. State Commerce Treasury 9.
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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.