ORR PREPARATIONS FOR OPERATION (Sanitized) 15, 16 AND 17 JUNE 1955

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81S00999R000100020006-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 30, 2001
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 14, 1955
• Content Type: MFR

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Projects Control Staff yx.
14 June 1955
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ORR Preparations for Operation
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BACKGROUND
1. An emergency exercise involving ORR was announced by the
AD to his staff on 24 May 1955 and to Area Chiefs on 26 May 1955.
This exercise, Operation will, to some degree, incur the
participation of all executive agencies of the Federal Government.
The primary mission of the exercise is to provide for the uninterrupted
function of government on the eve of, and during, a bombing attack upon
the seat of government, Washington, D.C. All executive officials and
key personnel will repair to relocation centers, theretofore established,
at the sounding of a pre-arranged signal. All personnel will leave their
offices and gather at prescribed vehicles as a prelude to simulated evac-
uation arrangements.
2. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) will actively participate
in this exercise, under the general supervision of the Intelligence Ad-
visory Committee (IAC), for the purpose of assessing:
a. an evaluation of the effectiveness of the CIA relocation
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b. the ability of the Agency to function under attack
conditions whereby personnel are established as an operating unit
apart from headquarters,
c. the adequacy and extent of ORR records forwarded
to vital storage,
d. the effectiveness of CIA communications systems
and equipment,
e. capabilities of coordination in emergency among IAC
agencies,
f. the validity of existing directives to provide for proper
discharge of business and allocation of authority during an emergency.
3. The problem assumes:
a. Phase I. During the first 24 hours-relations between
the US and USSR have deteriated to the point that hostilities may be
imminent,
b. Phase II. During the succeeding 29 hours--SAC bases,
Washington, D. C. and other US cities are under attack; St. Louis
and 6 other cities annihilated; and the war has spread to non-Bloc areas
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5. The DDI component will provide 100 key personnel at the
relocation center, The ORR Team will consist of the following:
ERA, (Senior Member)
ERA
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6. a. SI clearance is mandatory for all participants at the re-
location center,
b. The code designation for Mommunications an85X1A
completed papers is M
c. No _materials will be disseminated beyond the
continental US.
d. Special Assistant to the DDI, is
responsible for arrangements affecting the DDI component and
Executive to the AD/RR, is discharging this
function for ORR.
e, Mr. Huntington Sheldon, AD/CI, will be senior DDI
representative at the Center.
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ORR PREPARATIONS
7. Availability of Reports and Information
a. A check of ORR records with those of the Vital Records
repository establishes that all ORR finished intelligence reports (at a
minimum, 1951 to date) are at the relocation center.
b. Twenty-five support papers (IP's), contribution to NIE's,
were delivered to vital records on 10 June 1955.
c. Six recent ORR reports (unpublished) in manuscript
form were forwarded to vital records on 10 June 1955.
d. The AD and Senior Member, ORR Team, visited the
Center on 9 June 1955 to appraise the availability of documents and
to survey arrangements for operation of the Center. Representatives
of the Geographic Area likewise recently visited the Center to ensure
that necessary facilities were available,
e, The Senior Member, ORR Team, will receive from
St/PC the morning of 15 June 1955 the following lists and indexes of
ORR reports for :reference during the operation:
(1) A bound book (Black Book) consisting of an index
of all completed reports of the Economic Research Area (including
support and SC reports), arranged according to geographic area of
the world.
(2) A list of all Current Support Memorandum (both
collateral and SC), arranged according to geographic area of the world.
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(3) A list of all unpublished NIS on the Soviet Bloc
and Sino-Soviet Bloc.
(4) A list of all recently completed, but unpublished,
ERA reports in manuscript form (the original thereof now in the fluid
process of editing, or in review, or being typed, or in reproduction)-
(5) Copies of all current Status of Projects reports.
(6) Copies of annual and semi-annual reports (be-
gininning with 1951) of all ORR completed projects.
(f) The Senior Member has identified on a list the name of the
analyst responsible for each ERA project now in progress.
(g) The Chief, Geographic Area has compiled a similar
identification for his Area's projects.
(h) The ERA has forwarded to vital records microfilmed
copies of the estimates file, to date.
(i) The Chief, Coordination Area (a Team member) is sup-
plied with reports of the status of all unfinished NIS on non-Bloc areas
and with records of EIC production.
(j) The Chief, Geographic Area is assured that the vital
records repository contains a comprehensive collection of maps and
graphic aids and facilities for appropriate presentation. In this con-
nection, he has conferred with the Graphics Section, OCI, to provide
arrangements satisfactory to both Offices.
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8. Assignment of ORR personnel to watch duties after normal
a. ' The following Areas and Staff will maintain watches,
nightly, in M Building from 1700 to 0830 on 15 and 16 June 1955:
Economic Research Area
Geographic Research Area
Projects Control Staff
b. During the periods above-mentioned the duty station
of night watch officers will be Room 2109 (Extension 2763), except
when the Area representatives are required to serve as DDI watch
officers in the OCI Watch Office.
c. Three officers of the' Coordination Area, one from each
division, will be on call during the period 1700 to 0830 at their residences.
9. During the normal work-day St/PC will act as the central con-
trol point for all incoming and outgoing communications or materials
pertaining to This staff will maintain a record of all such
business transacted between ORR and the ORR Team at the Center.
MISSION AND FUNCTIONS OF ORR TEAM
10. It is unknown at this time whether or not the IAC will impose
the preparation of a national estimate upon its agencies. However,
representatives of all intelligence services will be present at the Center
(assigned to ONE). The ORR Team is prepared to contribute to any
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national estimate requiring their competence. Apart from such a
project, the Team anticipates that their support will be required by:
OCI - which will publish a daily bulletin on current
events and will dispose of current cables and
messages.
DDP - which will engage in a command post exercise.
SA, DDI- who will supplement the above by a variety of
original problems.
IAC Agencies - as their needs may require in the course
of their support to independently devised Service
problems.
11. The ORR Team is an integrated group within the DDI's total
representation at the Center. As such, ORR personnel will cooperate
with other DDI offices in the interest of the common good of the com-
ponent.
12. It is assumed that,, to appropriately test the capabilities of
the Center's operations unit, all coordination between IAC agencies
during
will. be discharged by personnel at the Center.
13. At the conclusion of all ORR participants therein are
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If In directed to submit critiques to the DDI in which any deficiencies whic_n
developed in arrangement, procedures or operations are brought to his
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