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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
## SECRET ## -2- Validated licenses are required for all other exports and such licenses are not issued. ## Eastern Europe except Poland General licenses available for shipments to these destinations cover personal baggage, tools of trade, dunnage, ships stores, plane stores, crew' personal effects, trade fair exhibits, published technical data, unclassified scientific and educational technical data, motion picture films and non-technical publications, gift parcels, and a list of about 1000 groups of industrial and personal articles. Validated licenses are required for all other exports and such licenses are issued only when the shipments would not make a significant contribution to the Bloo's military-industrial potential. ## Poland General licenses available for shipments to Poland are, in general, the same as those available for friendly countries. The outstanding exception consists of a list of some 600 commodity groupings. These are in addition to the validated license requirements for friendly countries which consist of goods of primary strategic importance. Possible Revisions in the Control Structure or Licensing Policies (a) Withdrawal of general licenses----some or all. (b) Expansion of area of export denials. (c) Complete embargo for some or all Eastern European destinations. (d) Expansion of coverage of transportation orders. Items (a) and (d) above would require publication of revised regulations. This could be accomplished within a period of time not exceeding one week. Items (b) and (c) can be put into effect immediately upon the decision to do so.
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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.