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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.
“Mission Control”2 pages
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# ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AND THEIR POSSIBLE PHASES OF APPLICATION ## PHASE III (cont'd) Mature of Allied Harassment, Countermeasures or other Action Countries Taking Action 9. a. Suspend existing contracts to charter shipping to Soviet bloc countries. US Action Agencies 9. a. NATO, plus Japan, Panama, Liberia General Comment 9. a. State Commerce Treasury b. Close Allied ports to Soviet bloc shipping. 9. a. From US point of view, economic factors would make such charters impossible. Existing regulations prohibit such charters under general orders Nos. 58 and 59, and, therefore, "suspension" is academic. b. US, UK, France, Federal Republic b. State Commerce Treasury b. France can implement this on basis of Article X of Decree of October 10, 1934. Presents no legal problem to US and has already largely been implemented. Powers to control entry of ships into UK ports would be assumed only if war seemed imminent. Soviets could be expected to retaliate, and a greater tonnage of Allied than Soviet shipping would thus be affected. c. Forbid the calling at Soviet bloc ports of Allied vessels and planes. c. NATO, plus Japan, Panama, Liberia. c. State Commerce Treasury c. US has necessary legal authority (see Appendix B, Item 3).
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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.