GENERAL CONCEPT FOR DD/I PROBLEM - OPERATION ALERT 1959

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 8, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 24, 1959
• Content Type: MF

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~IDt1l Fit: All Offices in DD/I Area
SUBJECT
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? General Concept for
Alert 1959
SCE : 21 October 1958 Mc orandtst ~'' Sub eat =ropers-
pion #Alert 1959: Concept",. to All Oft'icee in
DD/I Area frcm Assistant to DD/I (Pia -ing)
? the USSR and the U. S. has been effe .
1. The damages assessment problem outlined in the referenced
memorand= has been revised as a result of further study. The
present intent is to use, insofar as possible, damage assessment
data derived from a 1958 AF`CIN nuclear strike problem as s base for the
total problem.
2. The following information is subject to further .revision and
refinement, but is presented here for planning purpOiee:
a). The Sit__,uatiornn. Following a surprise military occupation
of Weet~erlin end s conventional (non-nuclear) ground attack
on several European fronts by the LIM,. tbA U.' _B.. declared
var against the MR. An initial nu .? veers
b) The nuclear strike pattern
made available to the CIA Re1.Ocstiald"
and initial damage assessment-data
Relocation site.
) It will be assumed that the ' at the,Reloas-
D
o
yr re for the NSC
tion Site has been asked by the bir tox t
an independent intelligence estimate ot.tbW OUrrent.situation.
3. Details of the problem mill be provided at the Relocation.
Sits st - the time of the exercise . For P103 31 s, the following
outline of the Director's request is' provided.:
a) An assessment of current Oovi4`' 0,...,i1ity to launch
additional nuclear attacks on the Continent 1,U. S. is required.
b) An estimate of the eeonomi0 reauprabittty' of the USSR
to support a conventional defense agiainit ($-A17.ied invasion
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and to supply essential, civilian service
Soviet population is needed.
c) The determination of an optimm loeati 'l+Qr A `
vsalon of the USSR considering the lay-down4pafit M ~ -of the
nuclear strike, the logistics problem,.and *4, reaction of t i
Soviet population is required.
d) An assessment of a cease-f ire .offer b~}t"I group of
Soviet officials and an assessment of "Chiaess', " ten'
is necessary.
4. Si maries end?estimates will be prepared in esaage format,
ready for delivery to the message center, beat . each report- vi.U. be
clearly labelled "Exercise message not to be treneatittea." The
message will be delivered instead to the Office.ot'-the Acting DCI at
the relocation center.
5. Although the substantive part of the exercise is to be con-
ducted as a purely CIA proble and will not, involve' contact with
outside agencies, the offices responsible for U ''IB ,CC ittees will
undertake an inventory of skills in their fields of responsibility so
directed in the referenced memorandum.
6. A meeting of representatives from eaci of -the offices of the
DD/I will be held shortly to discuss the alert exercise.
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