FIRE, DISASTER, AND AIR RAID EMERGENCY PLANS FOR CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY BUILDINGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00434A000200010015-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: April 17, 1953
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Plans) 17 April 1953
Deputy Director (Intelligence)
Deputy Director (Administration)
Assistant Director for Communications
Director of Training
SUBJECT : Fire, Disaster, and Air Raid Emergency Plans
for Central Intelligence Agency Buildings
1. The directives described below are hereby rescinded:
a. Memorandum to all Assistant Directors, all
Assistants to the Deputy for Administration, and all
Chiefs, Administration Offices, dated 19 December
1950, Subject: "Fire and Evacuation."
b. Memorandum for all Building Evacuation Officers,
dated 20 March 1952, Subject: "Development of Part II --
CIA Emergency Plan."
2. The provisions set forth hereunder supersede both the above
described memoranda and become effective immediately.
3. The Deputy Director (Plans), the Deputy Director
(Intelligence), the Deputy Director (Administration), the Assistant
Director for Communications, and the Director of Training are re-
sponsible during duty hours for the orderly and expeditious evacua-
tion of the occupants of building spaces occupied by their respective
organizations to places of safety in case of fire, riot, natural
disaster, or other such emergency, and for the orderly and expedi-
tious movement of the occupants of such building spaces to designated
shelter areas in event of air raid or other enemy action. As part
of this responsibility, they are charged with the securing of all
classified material and records and the protection of equipment under
all circumstances of emergency. To assist them in discharging all
of the foregoing responsibilities they may designate such persons
from within their organizations as they deem proper and necessary,
and should cause the appointment of a Building Emergency Officer and
an Alternate Building Emergency Officer for each building housing ac-
tivities of their respective organizations.
L. ? The Building Emergency Officers will prepare detailed plans
for the accomplishment of the objectives set forth above in Paragraph
3 within their respective buildings, which plans will be submitted to
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the Security Office for approval. Such plans will be based upon
the principle that senior supervisors present at the time of the
emergency are responsible for the carrying out of the plans in build-
ing areas assigned to them. They may be assisted in this regard
by such number of assistants as the exigencies of their particular
situations require.
5. After approval by the Security Office, such plans will be
maintained continuously on a current basis by the Building Emergency
Officers concerned. Names of the Building Emergency Officers and
Alternate Building Emerg?ncy officers will be reported to the
Security Office, which will thereafter be kept advised of any changes
made in these assignments or in the plans.
6. The plans will include all areas occupied by personnel
within the respective organizational jurisdictions of the Deputy
Director (Plans), the Deputy Director (Intelligence), the Deputy
Director (Administration), the Assistant Director for Communications,
and the Director of Training, regardless of the number of buildings
in which elements of the organization may be located. In those
buildings occupied by more than one organization, the organization
occupying the greatest amount of space will be responsible for the
planning and execution of the plan concerning all units within the
building. If principal occupancy is in doubt and the matter cannot
be otherwise resolved, it will be referred by the organizations con-
cerned to the Security Office for decision.
7? The following format will be used as a guide in the prepar-
ation of the plans for submission to the Security Office:
a. A general statement of the plan, including
instructions to all personnel and specific instruc-
tions to and duties of designated assistants to the
Building Emergency Officers.
b. Building floor plans showing shelter areas,
aid station sites, fire fighting equipment, desig-
nated places of safety, evacuation routes, and emer-
gency exits.
8. Upon the occurrence of any type of emergency, and while the
appropriate measures are being invoked by the Building Emergency
Officer concerned pursuant to the plan, the Building Emergency Officer,
or someone designated by him, will promptly call the Commander of the
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CIA Security Patrol, Extension 2131, to make him aware of the situa-
tion. A detachment of the Security Patrol will then come to the
scene immediately, and will afford over-all protection and preserve
order, pursuant to authority vested in it by the Director of Central
Intelligence, while the provisions of the plan covering the situa-
tion are being carried out under the immediate responsibility and
supervision of the Building Emergency Officers and their designated
assistants. The senior Security Patrol Officer present will act
as Emergency Marshal and will be in general charge of all activities
at the site, coordinating the operations of the various Building
Emergency Officers with each other, and the activities of all with
fire fighters and others.
9. A progressive program of training and distribution of in-
formative materials designed to familiarize all members of Central
Intelligence Agency with self-protection and self-assistance measures
and all other such techniques and methods as are developed by civil
defense authorities for the benefit of the public will be carried on,
under the staff supervision of the Central Intelligence Agency
Emergency Planning Officer, by the Building Emergency Officers for
their respective organizations. Announcements will be made on this
subject to the Building Emergency Officers at future intervals and
documents and materials will be distributed to them for their assist-
ance.
FOR THE DIRECTOR OF CENIBAL INTELLIGENCE:
Deputy Director
(Administration)
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