Documents / FOIA release
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 # MOMORANDUM Subject: Berlin Contingency Planning - Legal analysis by the United States of contemplated shipping and trade countermeasures. This memorandum deals with the domestic and international legal aspects, from the standpoint of the United States, of those non-military countermeasures relating to shipping and to general trade and commercial relations which are being considered in connection with Berlin contingency planning by the United States-United Kingdom-French Tripartite Planning Group in Washington. The countermeasures, together with the legal conclusions of the United States, are as follows: ## A - Shipping 1. Bring action to repress Soviet land-lease ships in Allied ports - Legally possible but unlikely to be successful. 2. Refuse to charter shipping to Soviet bloc countries - Presents no problems of legality. 3. Close United States ports to Soviet bloc shipping - Presents no problems and has already been largely implemented. ## B - General trade and commercial relations 1. Terminate credits to U.S.S.R. and satellites - Presents no problems of legality, and is in part already provided for by United States law. 2. Freeze Soviet bloo assets in the United States - Only problems of legality relate to United States obligations under claims settlement agreements with Poland and Romania. 3. Cut off all United States financial facilities to Soviet bloc countries - Presents no problems of legality. 4. Expand export control measures against Soviet bloc, including selective embargo - Presents no problems of legality.
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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.