BASIS OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR SUBMISSION OF SUCCESSION LISTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 18, 1962
• Content Type: MF

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1 8 MAY 1962
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT . Basis of the Requirement for Submission of Succession
Lists
1. This memorandum is intended to furnish information concerning the
background, origin, and requirements for preparation and submission of
lists of successors to command of this Agency in the event of casualties
incident to emergency relocation of the headquarters precipitated by enemy
action.
2. In November of 1950, President Truman designated two members of
his staff, Mr. David Stowe, Special Assistant, and Admiral Robert Dennison,
U.S.N., Naval Aide, to coordinate the collective planning of the Executive
Branch for continuity of Government in the event of enemy attack (emergency
relocation planning). They carried out this responsibility through a
secretariat which was attached administratively to the National Security
Resources Board. Original .y, participation was limited to seven sensitive
security agencies, consisting of the Department of Defense, the Department
of State, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion, the Federal Civil Defense Administration, the Office of Defense
Mobilization, and the Atomic Energy Commission.
3. At a meeting of emergency planning representatives of these seven
sensitive security agencies held in October 1951, Mr. Stowe announced that
President Truman had directed him to prepare a handbook to be kept on the
President's desk containing information about the relocation sites of the
agencies and including, among other things, a list of succession in command
in event of casualties occurring as an incident to enemy action. Accordingly,
it was directed that this information be submitted by each agency on a form
provided for the purpose, NSRB Form 167. The first such report from this
Agency was prepared and submitted on 1 December 1951-
4. With the coming of the Eisenhower Administration, the original
committee of emergency planning representatives of the seven sensitive
security agencies was expanded to include representation from all depart-
ments and agencies of the Executive Branch. In June 1954, the responsibility
for coordinating emergency planning was transferred from the National Security
Resources Board (which was dissolved) to the Office of Defense Mobilization,
where it resided through the 1958 merger of that office with the Federal Civil
Defense Administration, which produced the Office of Civil and Defense
Mobilization, the name of which was changed by the Congress to The Office of
Emergency Planning in September 1961. The Office of Emergency Planning now
has the responsibility.
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5. The requirement for periodic submission of succession lists from
all elements of the Executive Branch, including our Agency, has remained
continuous throughout all of the organizational changes described above.
After the responsibility was transferred to the Office of Defense Mobiliza-
tion the requirement was restated in a letter to the Director of Central
Intelligence from Dr. Arthur S. Flemming, Director of the Office of Defense
Mobilization, dated 11 October 1954, in which he requested the information
which previously had been submitted to NSEB, including the succession list.
Thereafter, periodic requests for the succession list alone (without the
other statistical information previously submitted on the forms) have been
made by ODM and -its successor organizations in the form of letters directed
to the CIA Emergency Planning Officer. The most recent of these letters,
dated 22 May 1961 and written by the Deputy Assistant Director of OCDM for
Continuity of Government, calls for continuous future submission of all
changes in our succession list. A copy of this letter is attached hereto.
6. The responsibility for keeping this information posted in the
Presidentts handbook now is carried out by the Director of the Office of
Emergency Planning, as successor to the duties and responsibilities of his
predecessors, and passed on to him by operation of law and by the terms of
Executive Order 10952, dated July 20, 1961, which effected the transfer of
pertain civil defense functions to the Department of Defense, and restated
the mission of the Office of Emergency Planning.
L. K. White
Deputy Director
(Support)
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Support)
SUBJECT
: Successors in Command - Emergency Planning
For emergency planning purposes the following, in the order
named, are successors in command for the Central Intelligence Agency:
Marshall S. Carter
Lyman B. Kirkpatrick, Jr.
Richard Helms
Ray S. Cline
Herbert Scoville, Jr.
Lawrence K. White
John A. Bross
John S. Earman
Lawrence R. Houston
John A. McCone
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Y EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF CIVIL AND DEFENSE MOBILIZATION
Washington 25, D. C.
May 22, 1961
Room 2-C-57., Quarters
Washington, D. C.
We are in the process of updating our records to assure that
we have a current listing of each Agency's successors in
command.
Accordingly, will you kindly furnish us with a list of suc-
cessors to the Director by name, title and official station
if outside of Washington and, in the future, send us any
changes that may be made in this list.
In addition, please submit a copy of any executive order,
amendments thereto and/or other document that establishes
this list.
Sincerely,
/s/
Robert Y. Phillips
Deputy Assistant Director for
Continuity of Government
NOTE: The reference to any executive order *x--* and/or other document" in the last
paragraph of the letter reproduced above is not applicable to our Agency. It
refers to the fact that certain of the departments and agencies have an order
of succession from within their internal bureaus prescribed for them by previous
executive orders or regulations published in the Federal Register. Our list is
chosen by our own Director.
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