HARASSMENT OF AUTOBAHN CONVOYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000100100024-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2002
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: June 25, 1962
• Content Type: MEMO

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EXECUTIVE MEMORANDUM
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
EXECUTIVE MEMORANDUM No. 22
DATE 3 July 1962
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (PLANS) * (additional copy)
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (INTELLIGENCE)
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (RESEARCH)
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (SUPPORT)
COMPTROLLER
INSPECTOR GENERAL
GENERAL COUNSEL
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
FOR NATIONAL ESTIMATES
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I Executive Director
This memorandum contains information for the addressees. Ad-
dressees may give this memorandum additional circulation within
their components as required. All copies should be destroyed not
filed, upon completion of circulation. A master file will be kept in
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June 45, 1962
SECRET
NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO. 167
TO: The Secretary of State
The Secretary of Defense
SUBJECT: Harassment of Autobahn Convoys
The President has approved the course of action for dealing
with Soviet and/or Last German harassment of A flied auto-
bahn convoys which the Secretary of State proposed in his
a omorandnm of June 5, 1962.
/s/
`cGeorge Bundy
cc: Director of Central Intelligence
General Maxwell D. Taylor
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to Rogers 6/23/62)
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rune 5, 1962
~bjeeet: Proposed Directive for Meeting Harassment of Allied
Autobahn Convoys
There are at present no explicitly stated US or tripartite rules
to determine the conduct of convoys which are hold up by the sets
or East Germans on the autobahn except under the specific conditions
envisaged in the LIVE OAK plans. General Norstad has believed that
he has had sufficient authority in his capacity as commandeer of US
Forces in Europe to order some ennpleyment by US convoys of forceful
Means (short of use of weapons except in self-defense). We considered
it desirable, however, to make thee rules explicit so that they could be
reviewed in Washington and could be adopted by the tK and France.
In response to requests for a plan embodying such rules, therefore,
General Noretad prepared a directive which he at first submitted to
VS alone. Now, In slightly modified form which takes into account
the comments Embassy Bonn and our Mission in Berlin made concerning
the first draft, be has submitted it to the US4, France and Germany
through LIVE OAK. He has asked for consideration of all four govern-
ments on an urgent basis. A copy of this second draft is enclosed
(SILO 5-00288). June 4, 1962
in essence the proposed directive would authorize the following
actions by an Allied convoy:
1) U the convoy is denied passage by administrative resistance
(e. g.. refusal to clear it through a Soviet checkpoint), by undefended
or passive obstacle* which can be removed by means integral to the
convoy (pioneer tools, unarmed personnel) or by a small group of tro s
bodily blocking the way, the convoy commander after a series of ,
protests and warnings will proceed forward.
If iaitie-lly,.
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2) If initially, or after first proceeding as in paragraph 1 above,
the convoy encounters defended obstacles or obstacles which cannot be
removed or crossed with means integral to the convoy, if the troops
blocking the way do not move aside, or if siseabie troop units are
encountered disposed for defense, the convoy commander after a series of
protests and demands for passage, will withdraw when ordered to do so
by the Berlin Comxr>