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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.
## SIECRET 4) Prevent overflights on emergency grounds provided by Article 9 of the Chicago Convention. ## Item 3b (Phase III) Initiate measures to prevent Soviet and satellite aircraft from landing or exercising commercial rights at Western airports or, alternatively, to make such landings or exercise of commercial rights difficult. ## Comments Traffic landings and exercise of commercial rights are normally governed by bilateral air agreements. Thus the comments under the previous Item on this subject would apply.
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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.