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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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# ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AND THEIR POSSIBLE PHASES OF APPLICATION ## PHASE III (cont'd) Nature of Allied Harassment, Countermeasures or other Action Countries Taking Action US Action Agencies General Comment 10. Terminate trade agreements involving Soviet bloc countries. 10. NATO Powers 10. State 10. US has no legal problems with respect to USSR but has no trade agreements with it. Legal and other problems arise with respect to other bloc countries particularly Poland and Czechoslovakia. No new powers would be required for cancelling quotas for imports into UK, but some trade is carried on outside the agreements. Existing import licenses (valid for three months) would have to be honored. 11.a. Deny all exports to Soviet bloc countries. 11.a. NATO Powers 11.a.State Commerce Treasury AEC 11.a. US could encounter some legal problems relating to agricultural sales to Poland, since this could constitute a violation of any surplus agricultural commodities agreement then in force. No other US legal problem. System of international control would be required for effective implementation (see Appendices B and C). b. Stop all Western imports from Soviet bloc countries. b. NATO Powers b.State Commerce Treasury b. US has necessary legal authority (see Appendices B and C).
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