CRISIS SITUATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP57-00384R000100030022-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: November 29, 1949
• Content Type: MF

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MC?:
Crisis Situations
(a) Tour Circular Memorandum
(b) Memorandum to COAPS frost Assistant General
Counsel, November 18th.
probably will a 6tanding C
on the above subject as one has been requested by the Air roree,
the Array is not yet ready. ?there more or less go along eith the
November iYth drillv copy of which it; attached.
2 points not covered in the cieneral Counzelta reaora
ich was sent to you), all other eueetioT1e in your
ber 8th cannot be used.
The ***hour-duty' is an internal operat1,-,-resons1-
biiitj inapprepriate Lor an overall directive on this subject.
f not all, of the Jepartnents already maintain audh
b. There shoad, in the first thstance, -
estimate as the DCI wishes to call the ZAC t
At the same time he celie that meeting, he may re
a brief draft estimate which he can use at the nee
cession purposes, He may leave the meeting to give
estimate of the crisis situation to the President or
doss not wish to go to the President before talking with the IAC.
ee think your suggested paragraphs 4 and 5 would denote
tion* to an *exceptional" or *urgent" one provided
, The purpose of this new directive is to supple
in providieg for crisis situations, an even fauter
usual, and to let the IAC members thenselves have
although there will not be the lest comeon
collective responsibility,
1. /4 Other seggestions received to date are a now
definition:
(1) A Crisis ituation will be considered to
an event has occurred or when there is a probability
the immediate future an event or events will occur that may
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gra Xy affect the ewcurity of the Nation and therefore
dememd tettate attention and decision by the President or
the C.
(2) The simple
directive "Shall" thro
d "Is changed to the
(3) Ums paragraph 4 of November 10th C
members shall bring vith them to the wetth any doents
and persons from their scencies deemed esmanti
adequate consideration of the problem.
(4) Nee paragraph 53 The TAC we.bere ehafl 41ve their
view, comments, and reactions on the draft estimate of the
crisis situation to the DCI, and he Shall then prepare the
estimate in finished forn for immediate Appropriate distri-
bution,
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cc: v"rieneral Counsel
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