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CIVIL DISTURBANCE & MARTIAL LAW
EXERCISE NIGHT TRAIN 84, REX 84 & OPERATION GARDEN PLOT
REX 84 is listed in the NIGHT TRAIN 84 Final Report. (The document is highly redacted). It is believed that REX 84 and OPERATION GARDEN PLOT were a part of a larger military contingency plan.
REX 84: BRIEF SUMMARY
Rex 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984, was an alleged classified "scenario and drill" developed by the United States federal government to suspend the United States Constitution, declare martial law, place military commanders in charge of state and local governments, and detain large numbers of American citizens who are deemed to be "national security threats", in the event that the President declares a "State of National Emergency". The plan states, events causing such a declaration would be widespread U.S. opposition to a U.S. military invasion abroad, such as if the United States were to directly invade Central America. To combat what the government perceived as "subversive activities", the plan also authorized the military to direct ordered movements of civilian populations at state and regional levels.
Rex 84 was supposedly written by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, who was both National Security Council White House Aide, and NSC liaison to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and John Brinkerhoff, the deputy director of "national preparedness" programs for the FEMA. They patterned the plan on a 1970 report written by FEMA chief Louis Giuffrida, at the Army War College, which proposed the detention of up to 21 million "American Negroes", if there were a black militant uprising in the United States. Existence of a master military contingency plan (of which REX-84 was a part), "Garden Plot" and a similar earlier exercise, "Lantern Spike", were originally revealed by journalist Ron Ridenhour, who summarized his findings in an article in CounterSpy. [From: Wikipedia]
OPERATION GARDEN PLOT: BRIEF SUMMARY
Operation Garden Plot, also known as The Department of Defense Civil Disturbance Plan (18 USC 1385 Posse Comitatus Act) is a general US Army and National Guard plan to respond to major domestic civil disturbances within the United States. The plan was developed in response to the civil disorders of the 1960s and is now under the control of the U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM). It provides Federal military and law enforcement assistance to local governments during times of major civil disturbances.
"The Garden Plot plan—drafted after the Watts, Newark, and Detroit riots—captures the acrimonious times when the document was drawn up. The section outlining the Army's perception of the "situation" in America certainly insinuates an establishment that was afraid of the disenfranchised. The Plot warns against "racial unrest," as well as "anti-draft" and "anti-Vietnam" elements."
Garden Plot was last activated (as Noble Eagle) to provide military assistance to civil authorities following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. The Pentagon also activated it to restore order during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Under Homeland Security restructuring, it has been suggested that similar models be followed. [From: Wikipedia]
REX 84 is listed in the NIGHT TRAIN 84 Final Report. (The document is highly redacted). It is believed that REX 84 and OPERATION GARDEN PLOT were a part of a larger military contingency plan.
REX 84: BRIEF SUMMARY
Rex 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984, was an alleged classified "scenario and drill" developed by the United States federal government to suspend the United States Constitution, declare martial law, place military commanders in charge of state and local governments, and detain large numbers of American citizens who are deemed to be "national security threats", in the event that the President declares a "State of National Emergency". The plan states, events causing such a declaration would be widespread U.S. opposition to a U.S. military invasion abroad, such as if the United States were to directly invade Central America. To combat what the government perceived as "subversive activities", the plan also authorized the military to direct ordered movements of civilian populations at state and regional levels.
Rex 84 was supposedly written by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, who was both National Security Council White House Aide, and NSC liaison to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and John Brinkerhoff, the deputy director of "national preparedness" programs for the FEMA. They patterned the plan on a 1970 report written by FEMA chief Louis Giuffrida, at the Army War College, which proposed the detention of up to 21 million "American Negroes", if there were a black militant uprising in the United States. Existence of a master military contingency plan (of which REX-84 was a part), "Garden Plot" and a similar earlier exercise, "Lantern Spike", were originally revealed by journalist Ron Ridenhour, who summarized his findings in an article in CounterSpy. [From: Wikipedia]
OPERATION GARDEN PLOT: BRIEF SUMMARY
Operation Garden Plot, also known as The Department of Defense Civil Disturbance Plan (18 USC 1385 Posse Comitatus Act) is a general US Army and National Guard plan to respond to major domestic civil disturbances within the United States. The plan was developed in response to the civil disorders of the 1960s and is now under the control of the U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM). It provides Federal military and law enforcement assistance to local governments during times of major civil disturbances.
"The Garden Plot plan—drafted after the Watts, Newark, and Detroit riots—captures the acrimonious times when the document was drawn up. The section outlining the Army's perception of the "situation" in America certainly insinuates an establishment that was afraid of the disenfranchised. The Plot warns against "racial unrest," as well as "anti-draft" and "anti-Vietnam" elements."
Garden Plot was last activated (as Noble Eagle) to provide military assistance to civil authorities following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. The Pentagon also activated it to restore order during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Under Homeland Security restructuring, it has been suggested that similar models be followed. [From: Wikipedia]
CIVIL DISTURBANCE PLAN DOCUMENTS
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PROJECT 112: BIOLOGICAL & CHEMICAL WEAPONS EXPERIMENTS
PROJECT 112: BRIEF SUMMARY
A biological and chemical weapon experimentation project conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense from 1962 to 1973. Every branch of the armed services and CIA contributed funding and staff.
Project 112 primarily concerned the use of aerosols to disseminate biological and chemical agents that could produce "controlled temporary incapacitation" (CTI). At least 50 trials were conducted; of these at least 18 tests involved simulants of biological agents (BG), and at least 14 involved chemical agents including sarin and VX, but also tear gas and other simulants. The shipborne trials were collectively known as Shipboard Hazard and Defense—SHAD. The project was coordinated from Deseret Test Center, Utah.
Agents and simulants were usually dispensed as aerosols using spraying devices or bomblets. There was a large variety of goals for the tests, for example: “selected protective devices in preventing penetration of a naval ship by a biological aerosol,” the impact of “meteorological conditions on weapon system performance over the open sea,” the penetrability of jungle vegetation by biological agents, “the penetration of an arctic inversion by a biological aerosol cloud,” “the feasibility of an offshore release of Aedes aegypti mosquito as a vector for infectious diseases,” “the feasibility of a biological attack against an island complex,” and the study of the decay rates of biowarfare agents under various conditions.
In May 1965, tests using the anthrax simulant Bacillus globigii were performed in the Washington D.C. area by SOD covert agents. One test was conducted at the Greyhound bus terminal and the other at the north terminal of the National Airport. In these tests the bacteria were released from spray generators hidden in specially built briefcases. SOD also conducted a series of tests in the New York City Subway system between 7 and 10 June 1966 by dropping light bulbs filled with Bacillus subtilis var. niger. In the latter tests, results indicated that a city-level epidemic would have occurred. Local police and transit authorities were not informed of these tests. [From: Wikipedia]
A biological and chemical weapon experimentation project conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense from 1962 to 1973. Every branch of the armed services and CIA contributed funding and staff.
Project 112 primarily concerned the use of aerosols to disseminate biological and chemical agents that could produce "controlled temporary incapacitation" (CTI). At least 50 trials were conducted; of these at least 18 tests involved simulants of biological agents (BG), and at least 14 involved chemical agents including sarin and VX, but also tear gas and other simulants. The shipborne trials were collectively known as Shipboard Hazard and Defense—SHAD. The project was coordinated from Deseret Test Center, Utah.
Agents and simulants were usually dispensed as aerosols using spraying devices or bomblets. There was a large variety of goals for the tests, for example: “selected protective devices in preventing penetration of a naval ship by a biological aerosol,” the impact of “meteorological conditions on weapon system performance over the open sea,” the penetrability of jungle vegetation by biological agents, “the penetration of an arctic inversion by a biological aerosol cloud,” “the feasibility of an offshore release of Aedes aegypti mosquito as a vector for infectious diseases,” “the feasibility of a biological attack against an island complex,” and the study of the decay rates of biowarfare agents under various conditions.
In May 1965, tests using the anthrax simulant Bacillus globigii were performed in the Washington D.C. area by SOD covert agents. One test was conducted at the Greyhound bus terminal and the other at the north terminal of the National Airport. In these tests the bacteria were released from spray generators hidden in specially built briefcases. SOD also conducted a series of tests in the New York City Subway system between 7 and 10 June 1966 by dropping light bulbs filled with Bacillus subtilis var. niger. In the latter tests, results indicated that a city-level epidemic would have occurred. Local police and transit authorities were not informed of these tests. [From: Wikipedia]
PROJECT 112: DOCUMENTS
MAIN REPORTS
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INDIVIDUAL EXPERIMENT FACTSHEETS
[Project 112 Factsheets | Compressed RAR | 6.47 MB | 55 PDF's]
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This Folder Contains:
Autumn Gold Factsheet Big Jack - Phase A - Factsheet Big Jack - Phase B - Factsheet Big Tom Factsheet Blue Tango Factsheet Cliff Rose Factsheet Copper Head Factsheet Devil Hole - Phase I - Factsheet Devil Hole - Phase II - Factsheet Dewpoint Factsheet Eagerbelle - Phase I - Factsheet Eagerbelle - Phase II - Factsheet Elk Hunt - Phase I - Factsheet Elk Hunt - Phase II - Factsheet Errand Boy Factsheet Fearless Johnny Factsheet Flower Drum - Phase I - Factsheet Flower Drum - Phase II - Factsheet Folded Arrow Factsheet Green Mist Factsheet Half Note Factsheet High Low Factsheet Magic Sword Factsheet Night Train Factsheet Pin Point Factsheet Pine Ridge Factsheet Purple Sage Factsheet Rapid Tan I-II-III Factsheet | Red Cloud Factsheet Red Oak Factsheet Scarlet Factsheet Shady Grove Factsheet Sun Down Factsheet Swamp Oak Factsheet Tall Timber Factsheet Watch Dog Factsheet West Side - Phase I - Factsheet West Side - Phase II - Factsheet Whistle Down Factsheet DTC Test 68-50 Factsheet DTC Test 68-53 Factsheet DTC Test 69-32 Factsheet DTC Test 69-10 Factsheet DTC Test 69-12 Factsheet DTC Test 69-14 Factsheet DTC Test 69-31 Factsheet DTC Test 69-75 Factsheet DTC Test 70-C Factsheet DTC Test 70-11, Phase I, Subtest 3 DTC Test 70-11, Phase I, Subtest 4 DTC Test 70-73 Factsheet DTC Test 70-74 Factsheet DTC Test 73-30 Factsheet DTC Test 74-10, Phase I DTC Test 74-10, Phase II |
STATUS & CONFERENCE REPORTS
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STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE (SDI) "STAR WARS" PROJECT
(Energy Weapons)
SDI: BRIEF SUMMARY
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.
The initial focus of the strategic defense initiative was a nuclear explosion-powered X-ray laser designed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by a scientist named Peter L. Hagelstein who worked with a team called 'O Group', doing much of the work in the late 1970s and early 1980s. O Group was headed by physicist Lowell Wood, a protégé and friend of Edward Teller, the "father of the hydrogen bomb".
Ronald Reagan was told of Hagelstein's breakthrough by Teller in 1983, which prompted Reagan's March 23, 1983, "Star Wars" speech. Reagan announced, "I call upon the scientific community who gave us nuclear weapons to turn their great talents to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete." This speech, along with Reagan's Evil Empire speech on March 8, 1983, in Florida, ushered in the final major escalation in rhetoric of the Cold War prior to a thawing of relations in the mid-to-late-1980s.
The concept for the space-based portion was to use lasers to shoot down incoming Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) armed with nuclear warheads. [From: Wikipedia]
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.
The initial focus of the strategic defense initiative was a nuclear explosion-powered X-ray laser designed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by a scientist named Peter L. Hagelstein who worked with a team called 'O Group', doing much of the work in the late 1970s and early 1980s. O Group was headed by physicist Lowell Wood, a protégé and friend of Edward Teller, the "father of the hydrogen bomb".
Ronald Reagan was told of Hagelstein's breakthrough by Teller in 1983, which prompted Reagan's March 23, 1983, "Star Wars" speech. Reagan announced, "I call upon the scientific community who gave us nuclear weapons to turn their great talents to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete." This speech, along with Reagan's Evil Empire speech on March 8, 1983, in Florida, ushered in the final major escalation in rhetoric of the Cold War prior to a thawing of relations in the mid-to-late-1980s.
The concept for the space-based portion was to use lasers to shoot down incoming Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) armed with nuclear warheads. [From: Wikipedia]
STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE: DOCUMENTS
- Visit of FRG Delegation to Discuss FRG SDI Participation - Pentagon 1985 [PDF | 3.53 MB]
- Strategic Defense Initiative Report to Congress 1986 [PDF | 8.91 MB]
- Exoatmospheric Reentry Vehicles Interception System ERIS 1987 [PDF | 2.79 MB]
- US Military Strategy/Warfighting Requirements for US Military Space Systems 1988 [PDF | 1.2 MB]
- Survey of SDI Tracking Algorithms 1989 [PDF | 9.86 MB]
- Defense Space Systems Study Final Report 1989 [PDF | 3.15 MB]
- Ground Based Radar - Environmental Assessment 1989 [PDF | 3.61 MB]
- High Endoatmospheric Defense Interceptor HEDI - Technology Testing Program 1989 Part I [PDF | 6.08 MB]
- High Endoatmospheric Defense Interceptor HEDI - Technology Testing Program 1989 Part II [PDF | 4.58 MB]
- Brilliant Pebbles Experiment Program - Environmental Assessment 1990 [PDF | 2.89 MB]
- SDI Advance Planning Briefing For Industry 1992 [PDF | 7.51 MB]
- SDI Report to Congress 1992 [PDF | 4.49 MB]
- Factsheet for Excalibur Program 1992 [PDF | 181 KB]
- LEAP Program Environmental Assessment 1993 [PDF | 1.6 MB]
- Brilliant Eyes Space Based Sensors - Proposed Action and Alternatives 1993 [PDF | 1.2 MB] (page 19-35 is "A Summary Report of the Military Working Group"; study says that homosexuals are "unfit" for military service???)
NON-LETHAL WEAPONS REPORTS & STUDIES
- Paranormal Phenomena - Briefing on a Net Assessment Study ARPA 1973 [PDF | 1.25 MB]
- CIA Mind Control and Behavior Modification Programs 1977 [PDF | 848 KB]
- DoD Psychological Operations Master Plan 1990 [PDF | 819 KB]
- Non-Lethal and Discriminate Weapons and Technologies 1991 [PDF | 1.34 MB]
- Strategic Assessement - Non-Lethal Weapons 1993 [PDF | 1.13 MB]
- Analysis of National Security Policy Implication of Non-Lethal Weapons 1994 [PDF |1.08 MB]
- Non-Lethal Weapons Report to Congress 1995 [PDF | 310 KB]
- Director, Strategic and Tactical Systems Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology - George R. Schneiter - Before the Subcommittee on Acquisition and Tech of the Committee on Armed Services - US Senate - on Non-Lethal Weapons 1996 [PDF | 333 KB]
OTHER DOD PROJECTS
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RANDOM DOD DOCUMENTS
- Chronology of Significant Events Relating to the US Missile and Earth Satellite Development Programs (1942-1957) [PDF | 6.72 MB]
- Military Efforts and Military Service Contributions in Space 1959 [PDF | 2.73 MB]
- Memorandum of Understanding between US-Israel Strategic Cooperation 1981 [PDF | 214 KB]
- DARPA Spaceplane Technology and Research - STAR 1984 [PDF | 7.18 MB]
- 100 Companies Receiving the Largest Dollar Volume of Prime Contract Awards FY 1989 [PDF | 862 KB]
- ARPA- Advanced Research Projects Agency 1993 [PDF | 3.97 MB]
- TERROR 2000 - The Future Face of Terrorism 1994 [PDF | 22.66 MB]
- Report to Congress: Conversion of Closed Military Installations into Federal Prison Facilities 1995 [PDF | 5.57 MB]
- DARPA Biological Warfare Defense Program 1997 [PDF | 3.46 MB]
- September 11, 2001 Air Threat and DDO Conference Transcripts [PDF | 27.58 MB]
- Electromagnetically Opague Shield Testing Program - Identity Stronghold RFID Blocking Card Protector 2012 [PDF | 1.0 MB]