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The United States Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2.
The following information was obtained under the Freedom of Information
Act. The original printing was of June 1, 1984. The information herein is
UNCLASSIFIED and does not come within the scope of directions governing the
protection of information affecting the national security.
It took a little more than three years to obtain a full copy of Operation
Garden Plot from the U.S. Government, and was done so under the freedom of
information act for unclassified documents. The implications within the
full context of this document should make the hair on the back of your head
stand on end!!!!!
In this document signed by the Secretary of the Army, is hereby assigned as
DOD Executive Agent for civil disturbance control operations. Under Plan
55-2 he is to use airlift and logistical support, in assisting appropriate
military commanders in the 50 states, District of Columbia, and the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and US possessions and territories, or any
political subdivision thereof.
The official name of this project is called “Operation Garden Plot.”
Under this plan for the deployment of Operation Garden Plot, the use of
CIDCON-1 will be mandatory. This direct support of civil disturbance
control operations is to be used by the Army, USAF, Navy, and Marine Corp.
with an airlift force to be comprised of MAC Organic Airlift Resources,
airlift capable aircraft of all other USAF major commands, and all other
aerial reconnaissance and Airborne Psychological Operations. This is to
include control communications systems, aeromedical evacuation, helicopter
and Weather Support Systems.
If any civil disturbance by a resistance group, religious organization, or
other persons considered to be non-conformist takes place, under Appendix 3
to Annex B of Plan 55-2 hereby gives all Federal forces total power over
the situation if local and state authorities cannot put down said dissenters.
Annex A, section B of Operation Garden Plot defines tax protesters, militia
groups, religious cults, and general anti-government dissenters as
Disruptive Elements. This calls for the deadly force to be used against any
extremist or dissident perpetrating any and all forms of civil disorder.
Under section D, a Presidential Executive Order will authorize and direct
the Secretary of Defense to use the Armed Forces of the United States to
restore order.
2 TAB A APPENDIX 1 TO ANNEX S USAF CIVIL DISTURBANCE PLAN 55-2
EXHIBIT POR:SGH, JCS Pub 6, Vol 5, AFR 160-5 hereby provides for America’s
military and the National Guard State Partnership Program to join with
United Nations personal in said operations. This links selected U.S.
National Guard units with the Defense Ministries of “Partnership For
Peace.” This was done in an effort to provide military support to civil
authorities in response to civil emergencies.
Under Presidential Decision Directive No. 25, this program serves to cement
people to relationships between the citizens of the United States, and the
global military of the UN establishments of the emerging democracies of
Central and Eastern European countries. This puts all of our National
Guardsmen under the direct jurisdiction of the United Nations.
Section 3:
This plan could be implemented under any of the following situation:
(1) Spontaneous civil disturbances which involve large numbers of persons
and/or which continue for a considerable period of time, may exceed the
capacity of local civil law enforcement agencies to suppress. Although
this type of activity can arise without warning as a result of sudden,
unanticipated popular unrest (past riots), it may also result from more
prolonged dissidence.
This would most likely be an outgrowth of serious social, political or
economic issues which divide segments of the American population. Such
factionalism could manifest itself through repeated demonstrations, protest
marches and other forms of legitimate opposition but which would have the
potential for erupting into spontaneous violence with little or no warning.
(2) Planned acts of violence or civil disobedience which, through arising
from the same causes as (1) above, are seized upon by a dedicated group of
dissidents who plan and incite purposeful acts designed to disrupt social
order.
This may occur either because leaders of protest organizations
intentionally induce their followers to perpetrate violent acts, or because
a group of militants infiltrates an otherwise peaceful protest and seeks to
divert it from its peaceful course.
Subsection C: (2) Environmental satellite products will be continue to be
available. (d) Responsibilities. Meteorological support to civil
disturbance operations will be arranged or provided by AWS wings.
The 7th. Weather Wing (7WW) is responsible for providing / arranging
support for Military Airlift Command (MAC) airlift operations. The 5th
Weather Wing (5WW) is responsible for supporting the United States Army
Forces Command.
(3) SITUATION. Civil disturbance may threaten or erupt at any time in the
CONUS and grow to such proportions as to require the use the Federal
military forces to bring the situation under control.
A flexible weather support system is required under control. A flexible
weather support system is required to support the many and varied options
of this Plan.
ANNEX H: XXOW, AWSR 55-2, AWSR 23-6, AFR 23-31, AR 115-10, AFR 105-3.
Subsection B:
Concept of Environmental Support. Environmental support will be provided by
elements of Air Weather Service (AWS) in accordance with refs a-f. The
senior staff meteorologist deployed int the Task Force Headquarters (TFH)
will be the staff weather officer (SWO) to the TFH.
Centralized environmental support products are requested in accordance with
AWSR 105-18. (4) Weather support is provided by weather units located at
existing CONUS bases or by deployed SWOs and / or weather teams to the
objective areas.
(5) Support MAC source will be provide in accordance with the procedures
in MARC 103-15. MAC forces will be provided in accordance with the
procedures in AFR 105-3.
(a) Air Force Global Weather Central: Provides centralized products as
requested.
REFERENCES : JCS Pub 18 - Doctrine for Operations Security AFR
55-30, Operations Security
1. GENERAL Opposition forces or groups may attempt to gain knowledge of
this plan and ‘use that knowledge to prevent or degrade the effectiveness
of the actions outlined in this plan. In order to protect operations
undertaken to accomplish the mission, it is necessary to control sources of
information that can be exploited by those opposition forces or groups.
OPSEC is the effort to protect operations by identifying and controlling
intelligence indicators susceptible to exploitation. The objective of
OPSEC, in the execution of this plan, is to assure the security of
operations, mission effectiveness, and increase the probability of mission
success.
2. RESPONSIBILITY FOR OPERATIONS SECURITY (OPSEC):
The denial Of information to an enemy is inherently a command
responsibility. However, since the operations Officer at any level of
command is responsible to his commander for the Overall planning and
execution of operations, he has the principal staff interest in assuring
maximum protection of the operation and must assume primary responsibility
instibility for ensuring that the efforts of all other staff elements are
coordinated toward this end. However., every other individual associated
with, or aware of, the operation must assist in safeguarding the security
of the operation.
3. OBJECTIVES:
a. The basic objective of OPSEC is to preserve the security Of friendly
forces and thereby to enhance the probability of Successful mission
accomplishment. “Security” in this context relates to the protection of
friendly forces. It also includes the protection of operational information
to prevent degradation of mission effectiveness through the disclosure of
prior knowledge of friendly operations to the opposition.
b. OPSEC pervades the entire planning process and must be a matter of
continuing concern from the conception of an operation, throughout the
preparatory and execution phases, and during critiques, reports, press
releases, and the like conducted during the post operation phase.
4. Specific operations orders and standard operating procedures “MUST be
developed with the awareness that the opposition may be able to identify
and exploit vulnerable activities.
Reference Material:
Released under Freedom of Information Act on March 30th, 1990. All
material presented here has been declassified and supersedes USAD
Operations Plan 355-10 of July 16, 1973. Information released by USAF under
supervision of Alexander K. Davidson, BRIG. GEN, USAF, Dep. Director of
Operations.
APPENDEX 5 TO ANNEX E TO USAF CIVIL DISTURBANCE PLAN 55-2 Annex Z.
Other References: 10 United States Codes 331,332,333,8500,1385, MARC 105-1,
MARC 105-18, AR 115-10, AFR 105-3, PDD-25.
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