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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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## SECRET exchange of notes dated November 14, 1946 (TIAS 1569). A similar agreement effected by an exchange of notes dated April 24, 1946 (TIAS 1516) is in force between the United States and Poland. Most of the provisions in each agreement are of a general and hortatory nature and do not commit the parties to any specific course of action. The few firm obligations contained therein are, with one exception, unilateral in nature and apply to Csechoslovakia and Poland rather than to the United States. The one exception is a bilateral commitment in each agreement to make adequate and effective compensation for properties which may be requisitioned or nationalized. It would then appear that more advantages would accrue to the United States, at least in theory, by allowing the two agreements to remain in effect than by terminating them. The United States has also entered into a number of agreements with Poland over the past four years regarding the sale of surplus agricultural commodities to that country. With the possible exception of the most recent one dated July 21, 1960, those agreements have been fully performed on both sides. It is our understanding that performance of the July 21 agreement will be completed in the near future if it has not already been completed. With regard to consideration by the United States, in connection with Berlin countermeasures, of termination of any future agricultural commodities agreements with Poland, certain factors which are beyond the scope of this memorandum should be kept in mind. These factors pertain to the efforts of the United States to reestablish more normal economic relations with Poland, as evidenced by the announcement by the President on November 17, 1960 that the United States is terminating the 1952 suspension of most favored nation treatment with respect to duties on Polish imports. In this regard, it is our understanding that certain unannounced understandings were reached with the Poles during the course of the negotiations for the claims settlement agreement of July 16, 1960 regarding restoration of most favored nation treatment and future sales of surplus agricultural commodities.
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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.