COMMENTS OF FIRST PREMILINARY REPORT, DEFENSE AGAINST UNCONVENTIONAL ATTACK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00764R000100080016-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: November 22, 1948
• Content Type: MF

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22 Novessber 1948
LIB. COLONEL E MN F. BLACK
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C is on First Preliminary Report, Defense
Against Unconventional Attack
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this Agency is interested in the matters contained in your first pre-
liminary report on Defense Against Unconventional .Attack, dated
6 govesr)er 1948. As a preelimiUerp step, Mr. Milton W. Buffington of
my staff will communicate with you and will discuss the nature anndn..
extent of our interest in the matter. It is
nection that such a discussion, if agreeable to you, would serve to
define and delimit the areas of this very broad subject which are of
,tual interest, following which we might have a sleeting to discuss
the problem more fully and determine upon an "..P." for future
dealings.
2. In view of your expression of interest.. we are offering for
your consideration the following general co nts concerning the
subject matter of the report Itself%
a, it is suggested that, when studying methods. effesats,
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spread use of such agents against civilians and their in-
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their use against organized military units.
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the Secretary of Defense, deals at some length with
the problems posed by the various methods of unconven.
tional attack insofar as they affect the civilian populace,
and, as such, are probably civil defense operations.
d study should be made of the
to the armed services.
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Assistant Director, CIA
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ed because of their probable entailing
or all, of them simultaneously, should
costs in money, -terrial or manpower,