CERTAIN MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE PSB CONCERNING THE BERLIN SITUATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R003300180041-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2012
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: May 29, 1952
• Content Type: MF

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29 May 1952
i rector of Central Xnte to
"ere for Consideration of the PSB
arming the Berlin Situation
to our discussion this morning and. pursuant
tting to you herewith (with copies avail
to *soors* Foster and ice) a brief
rnsider to be worthy of attention as a 1
rases from vhat you have said that a spec
misting of senior representatives of the Depart,-
Is balm designated to cones= itself with
t has also occurred to me that the B
r. It is the view of Mr. Du1lees$ which I
in situation is one of those or urrent matters
Could concern itself for the purposes Fitimlating
on on the part of the operating departments and agencies.
the assumption that Soviet authorities and their Bast
Val s ly increasingly stringent measures for
purpose of isolating Berlin and the Eastern erne of trmaa from the
'West and that as these measures are applied the difficulties of our
on in Berlin will mount - the old ? uestion of counter measures
int. On two previous occasions with which
sudden so&sm of concern and frantic energy
.tom to draw up acad. consider a list of
measures susceptible of application on a world.
ooms tt have been hurriedly set up, and the
a reasonably order , r canvassing of the possibilities of
ate group take up this matter now while there is stir..
My and +exami aaUon, It is my proposal, th fore,
n an almost overnight basin have been prejudiced bQr
rianess and feasibility of the proposals which thsg
Lon and renew of the feasibility and desirability of each. The
departments and agencies primarily interested should be called uvon
on r ute Tcrnexr suggestions and r mendations, and I an sure that
a setter. of two days this Agency could make a list of helpful
suggestions. In the ordinary course of our work# we have been building
up a stockpile of ideas and proposals which would lead themselves to
covert and sad-covert auction.
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3. One very important point to be considered
should be any statement or declaration of Our Intention
retaliatory =& *we* - with a view to the possibility of disco
or reducing actions on the part of the Soviets and the Fast Germans)
or Wither we, the British, and the French should s ly begin quietly
the putting into effect of a series of measures which would be pain-
ful to the other aide. The Russians operate this wady themselves and
would certainly be quick to get the point, and this latter course has
the additional advantage of not proclaiming big things which we may not
be able to do or placing ourselves in the position of being charged with
ultimata.
4* There are two reacted matters of a primarily propaganda, and
psytaholegicaal warfare nature,` vis. t
a* The question whether this Go t (and also the
British, French, and West Germans) should officially declare
pronounce that the Russians and the Fast Germans are
e'b ;it fl Berlin. The tssi aaa s do not like the word,
b ockade, at all and it is very embarrassing to thamt., but the
question inWither it is wive for this label to be nailed
on their actions by official statements* It has already begun
to come up in the prose and in nany other unofti aial ways, and
is surer to becc current in usage irrespective of whether
official Pronouncements are mac or not.
be The question whether we and our fries and associate*
should launch an all-out propaganda drive to establish the fact
that it is the Russians and the East Germans who 44V roe,
by their overt and tangible cottons for the dividing of G - : .
I would strongly recrnd this course of action and feel that
already late in starting it* The Russians have gained
wady the initiative in the effort to plan the by tux,
and their propaganda machine is runner at full blast down this
road. We have ch better s tion but we are tiring it only
fitfully. AU of our outlets an well as those of the 3 .ti ,,
Fes, and rest Germans should be hammering away at the Soviet
and O art actions, which are so clear and so un4erstadble,
even to the least politically-minded arson. The cutting of
telephone c+ caications, the digging of tr hes, and the creation
of a three-mile "no 's land" along the sou boundary; the
orders of eeion of West Gem Pram the stern Zone, e.,
etc., are scions which do not am need to be dramatized to be
understood.
G. WISNER
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