PROCEDURES FOR DEALING WITH NON-MILITARY INCIDENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87-00058R000100260008-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 19, 1978
• Content Type: MEMO

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UNCLASSInLU LJ SE ONLY U %.vI vr.n11ML ^ SECRET Iftw ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
SUBJECT: (Optional)
(Re your attached note to me)
FROM: EXTENSION NO.
Chief, Information and Privacy Staff DATE _ST
3 February 1978
TO: (Officer designation, room number, and
building)
DA
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OFFICER'S
COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom
RECEIVED
FORWARDED
INITIALS
to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
1 AI/DDA
IPS was not previously tasked
Attn:
to respond to the Presidential
of NSC-27
I do not
2.
.
believe this will have much effect
on FOIA. Any involvement in
requests for non-military incidents
3.
under FOIA will proceed slowly and
NSC review completed
we will have full oppo-~-tunity
normally for interagens
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tion. Regarding the fist-moving
flaps that happen (last week for
I ex
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and far between and each will differ
widely. IPS need not necessarily
art of the
rocedu--es but we
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will need to be fully informed of
who to contact in the event of an
incident
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usually alert Public Affairs and any
component that we feel may be con-
cerned
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OPS Center. I did not seek out who
has action on the Presidential
Directive and let me know if
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want me to proceed further.
As a side note
10.
comment, I do not agree with his
approach that disclosures by other
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disclosures by DDO. I believe we
are one Agency. We go up together
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However, I do very much agree
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with comments regarding the
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sub-IRC and hope we can get some-
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organized very soon.
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January 19, 1978
Presidential Directive/?SC- 27
TO: The Secretary of State
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ALSO: The Secretary of the Treasury
The Secretary of Defense
The Attorney General
The Secretary of the Interior
The Secretary of Commerce
The Secretary of Transportation
The Secretary of Energy
The Director of Central Inte1-1- yence---"--
The Administrator, National Aeronautics
and Space-Administration
The Director, Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency
The Director, U.S. Information Agency
The Director, Federal Preparedness Agency
SUBJECT: Procedures for Dealing with Non-Military Incidents
The President has directed that uniform and clearly under-
stood procedures be established within the United States
Government for dealing with various types of non-military
incidents which could ha,'e an adverse impact upon t'.-ie conduct
of our foreign relations.
To assist the Special Coordination Committee in ensuring
that the government's decisions are reached expeditiously
and that the views of all concerned Departments and Agencies,
as well as considerations of both domestic law and foreign
policy, are brought together. in reaching a decision, the
Department of State will have primary responsibility to
coordinate government planning and public statements for
dealing with such incidents and will keep the White House
fully informed throughout.
The following basic procedures shall. be observed in
daalin~-~
with such incidents:
OFFICIAL USF ONLY
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All Departments a -iii In rE c :ipt c f t~iis
Directive are her_-eby ciz_ red to maintain 24-hour
watch supervised by a responsible o :-i.cer, or such
other. comparable mechanism as will in the opinion
of the Department/.",gency and the Department of State
be adequate to achieve the objectives of this Direc-
tive. It will be the responsib_Lli ty of this watch
to advise the Department of State Operations Center
of incidents that are developing in a way that could
impact adversely upon the conduct of US foreign
relations. Actions already taken or under way by
law enforcement agencies will be reported to the
Department of State Operations Center, along with
those agencies' recommendations for dealing further
with he incidents.
-The Department of State Operations Center will
promptly inform appropriate officers of, the Depart-
ment of State and other Agencies concerned and the
White House Situation Room of such incidents and will
assure timely communication to the Situation Room of
information concerning an incident and its develop-
ment, proposed courses of action intended by the
Departments and Agencies concerned, and actions
already taken. In the event of interagency disagree-
ment, the Department of State Operations Center will
brief the Watch Officers of interested Agencies on
the interagency differences and-the considerations
on which they are based, and will afford these Agencies
the opportunity for further comnent. The Operations
Center will then refer to the White House for final
decision the recommendations of interested Ajencies.
.The Operations Center will inform the White House of:
(a) any major disagreement among the Agencies, or (b)
any known intention of a senior official of an inter-
ested Agency to-express-the views of that Agency
directly to the White House.
As responsibility for the coordination of Intelligence
Community operations will continue to be that of the
Director of Central Intelligence, the Operations Center
will ensure that the DCI is also promptly notified of
such incidents.
-- The Operations Center will also ensure that there are
full consultations with interested law enforcement
agencies at each step of a developing incident in
order that those agencies rnoy properly carry out their
.law enforcement re. -onsi, ? itios .
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-~ The Department; o; State Operations Center is charged
with the timely tr