EMERGENCY PLANNING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01237A000100020045-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: May 19, 1959
• Content Type: MF

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USIB -D-7. 1 /1
19 May 1959
WORANDUM,FOR: The United States Intelligence Board
SUBJECT: Emergency Planning
REFERENCE: IAC-D-96/2, 3 April 1956 (attached)
1. In accordance with an approved recommendation by the
President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities
(Recommendation No. 2 of 20 December 1956), I was directed to
make a "realistic appraisal" of the Community's organization and
responsibilities in time of war, and to make appropriate recommendations
for further action. I reported at that time that a clarification and
realignment of the Community's normal responsibilities and relationships
was an essential preliminary to undertaking realistic planning for
operation in a war emergency. Such a realignment has now been
essentially completed by the approval of revised NSCID's and DCID's
and it therefore appears incumbent upon me to proceed further with
action under the original recommendation.
2. In April 1956 the IAC directed each subcommittee of the
IAC to prepare a wartime plan of operation covering its own field
of standing responsibility. To date little has been done to
implement this directive and I therefore propose that the Intelligence
Board now endorse the following course of action:
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a. Direct each Committee or other established interagency
body under the Intelligence Board to report plans for its
operation and for intelligence-community functioning in its
;assiggned-. field of responsibility, in time of emergency,
to the Board by 1 October 1959. In the event that a Cormnittee's
planning develops factors on which Intelligence Board policy
guidance appears required before proceeding'; to develop ,sp ci is
working arrangements, the Committee Chairman shall immediately
report such factors to the Intelligence Board.
b. Agree that, during this same interim period the various
departments and agencies represented on the Board exchange
information at all appropriate working levels as to other
specific measures that have been or can be taken individually
or jointly to facilitate the continued operation of the
Intelligence Community in an emergency*
c. On the basis of the information developed under
paragraphs a and b above, I will prepare further recommendations
as to additional specific measures that should be taken by the
Intelligence Community.
3. 1 propose to discuss this problem with the Board and request
its endorsement of this general procedure at an early meeting of the
Board.
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