MEETING OF THE DDA EMERGENCY PLANNING GROUP ON 27 JANUARY, 10, 15, AND 22 FEBRUARY 1983

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B01152R000901220007-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 15, 2008
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SUBJECT: Meeting of the DDA Emergency Planning Group on 27 January, 10,
15, and 22 February 1983
MEETING ON 27 JANUARY 1983
1. This was the first meeting of the DDA Emergency Planning Group
(EPG) and consisted of a presentation on the current status of Emergency
Planning in the Directorate. This was followed by a review of the DPG's
task which is to prepare a Directorate Emergency Plan that covers both
local, short duration emergencies and national level disasters. To
accomplish this, EPG will proceed with planning on two levels: local
short duration emergencies will be completed by 31 December 1983 and the
national disaster planning will be studied for six months at the end of
which a recommendation for appropiate action will be made.
MEETING ON 10 FEBRUARY 1983
1. All members of the group provided social security numbers which
will be used to request CS clearances.
2. The group was then reminded of their individual responsiblity to
produce a written emergency plan to provide for the continuation of the
critical functions of their office. They were also requested to
contibute their various expertise and experience to the activities of "the
group as a whole and to maintain a Directorate focus.
3. A tentative' outline of the DDA plan was reviewed by the group and
a general discussion evolved as to what should or should not be
included. Basically this outline is:
SECTION I - OMS, OS AND SAFETY STAFF will provide base planning for
centralized security and medical emergencies which will provide
standardized instrucitons and procedures for dealing with four categories
of emergency:
NATURAL
Fire
Flood
Lightening
Hurricane
Blizzard
SPECIAL
Suspect Package
Terrorist Attack
Hostage
Hold-up
BombThreat
Hi-jacking
PERSONNEL
Medical Emergency
Medical Evac
Arrest
Death
Missing Person
Political Asylum
BUILDING/INDUSTRAIL
Elevator
Power Outage
Burst Pipe
Smoke/Noxious Fumes
Flood/Water Contam
Major Catastrophe
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A working group with representatives of the Offices of Security,
Logistics and Medical Services will meet separately from the Emergency
Planning Group and will update the current procedures for responding to
the above emergencies. Once these procedures are current and coordinated
fully within the organizations responsible for providing the response,
they will be distributed to all members of the EPG for comment and
suggestions. When the EPG is satisified that all Directorate concerns
have been adequately addressed, procedures for coping with the above
emergencies will be incorporated as the base for the Directorate
Emergency Plan.
Section II: Each office in the Directorate will add to the above base, a
section to cover their own unique responsibilities and services, i.e.,
Communications will add procedures for emergency communications; ODP will
add a section for emergency computer operations; OF will add emergency
payroll procedures and funding; OIS will add a revised vital records
program , etc.
Section III: This section will provide (if possible or pratical)
contingency planning for single points of failure which have the
potential to seriously disrupt Agency operations. For instance, if the
Key Building cannot be inhabited for a period of several weeks, we must
provide for alternate workspace with adequate equipment and furniture for
the displaced Key building personnel to carry out critical functions. We
will have to make provisions for a variety of different scenarios It may
in fact not be possible to cover all possiblities but we should identify
the single points of failure and try to establish work arounds.
Section IV: This section will deal with Nuclear Disaster.
4. After various discussions, the group agreed that the above
outline would serve as a starting point and could be modified as we
develop the various details. In the meantime, each member will begin to
develop his section of the plan and will not wait for the base to be
finalized.
MEETING ON 15 FEBRUARY
1. This meeting was called on short notice to take advantage of the
recent snow emergency as a real life problem in emergency planning. The
DDA/Executive officer tasked the Emergency Planning Group to submit a
written report of the events that occurred during the storm as well as
suggestions on how to prevent the problems from reoccurring. The
individual members discussed the problems that occurred and a general
exchange of ideas and suggestions resulted. The members were tasked to
submit their individual responses to the Chairman by COB 18 February.
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1.I lof the NIEPS briefed the group on the current STAT
state of planning in his organization. As the group has not recieved the
appropiate clearances this briefing was very general. However, the group
was unanimous in evaluating the presentation as very worthwhile, and look
forward to recieving the classified part of this briefing.
STAT
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