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Friday, December 23, 2011
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.
Additional backup documents will be found on another site at
http://www.cafes.net/mo/Gardenplot.htm
That is a good site to read this type of material. Lots of curious stuff.
If I can give anyone credit for this great file, I give to the guys in the "cafes". Thanks, guys.
Please notice that your "faithful" political servants did not tell you about this law. But they wrote and passed it. It took someone about there years to find it. And they had to force it out into the open. Congressman Gonzalez admits that it exists. Gee, thanks a lot, you guys.
112th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 959
HR 959 IH
March 8, 2011
Mr. QUIGLEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Select Committee on
Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
- This Act may be cited as the `Secure Travel and Counterterrorism Partnership Program Act of 2011'.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
- (a) Definitions- Section 217(c)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1187(c)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
- `(1) AUTHORITY TO DESIGNATE; DEFINITIONS-
- `(A) AUTHORITY TO DESIGNATE- The Secretary of
Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of State, may
designate any country as a program country if that country meets the
requirements under paragraph (2).
- `(B) DEFINITIONS- In this subsection:
- `(i) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES- The term `appropriate congressional committees' means--
- `(I) the Committee on Foreign Relations,
the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the
Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate; and
- `(II) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the
Committee on Homeland Security, and the Committee on the Judiciary of
the House of Representatives.
- `(ii) PROGRAM COUNTRY- The term `program country' means a country designated as a program country under subparagraph (A).
- `(iii) VISA OVERSTAY RATE-
- `(I) IN GENERAL- The term `visa overstay rate' means, with respect to a country, the ratio of--
`(bb) the total number of nationals of that country who were admitted to the United States on the basis of a nonimmigrant visa during that fiscal year.
- `(iv) COMPUTATION OF VISA OVERSTAY RATE- In
determining the visa overstay rate for a country the Secretary of
Homeland Security--
- `(I) shall utilize information from all available databases to ensure the accuracy of such rate; and
- `(II) shall not include any visa overstay
which incorporates any procedures based on, or are otherwise based on,
race, sex, or disability, unless otherwise specifically authorized by
law or regulation.'.
- (b) Technical and Conforming Amendments- Section 217(c) of
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1187(c)) is amended as
follows:
- (1) In paragraph (2)(C)--
- (A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking `Attorney General,' and inserting `Secretary of Homeland Security,'; and
- (B) in clause (iii), by striking `Committee on the
Judiciary and the Committee on International Relations of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate' and inserting `appropriate
congressional committees'.
- (2) In paragraph (5)(A)(i)(III), by striking `the
Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the
Committee on Homeland Security, of the House of Representatives and the
Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate'
and inserting `appropriate congressional committees'.
- (3) In paragraph (7)--
- (A) in subparagraph (D), by striking `Attorney
General' both places that term appears and inserting `Secretary of
Homeland Security'; and
- (B) by striking subparagraph (E).
SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM COUNTRIES BASED ON VISA OVERSTAY RATES.
- (a) In General- Section 217(c)(2)(A) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1187(c)(2)(A)) is amended to read as follows:
- `(A) LOW NONIMMIGRANT VISA OVERSTAY RATE- The visa
overstay rate for that country was not more than 3 percent during the
previous fiscal year.'.
- (b) Qualification Criteria- Section 217(c)(3) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1187(c)(3)) is amended to read
as follows:
- `(3) QUALIFICATION CRITERIA- For each fiscal year after
the initial period, a country may not be designated as a program
country unless requirements of paragraph (2)(A) are met.'.
- (c) Judicial Review- Section 217(c)(6) of the Immigration
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1187(c)(6)) is amended to read as follows:
- `(6) INAPPLICABILITY OF JUDICIAL REVIEW- No court shall
have jurisdiction to review the denial of admission to the United
States of any alien by the Secretary of Homeland Security, the
Secretary's computation of a visa overstay rate, or the designation or
nondesignation of a country as a program country.'.
- (d) Reporting Requirements- Section 217(c)(7) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1187(c)(7)), as amended by
section 2(b)(3), is further amended--
- (1) in the heading, by striking `VISA WAIVER INFORMATION- ' and inserting `REPORTING REQUIREMENT- ';
- (2) by striking subparagraph (A);
- (3) by redesignating subparagraphs (B), (C), and (D) as subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C), respectively;
- (4) in subparagraph (A), as so redesignated--
- (A) in the heading, by striking `REPORTING REQUIREMENT- ' and inserting `IN GENERAL- ';
- (B) in clause (iii), by striking `were refused' and inserting `overstayed';
- (C) in clause (iv)--
- (i) by striking `who were refused' and inserting `who overstayed'; and
- (ii) by striking `refused; and' and inserting `issued.'; and
- (D) by striking clause (v);
- (5) in subparagraph (B), as so redesignated, by striking `subparagraph (B)' and inserting `subparagraph (A)'; and
- (6) in subparagraph (C), as so redesignated, by striking `subparagraph (B)' and inserting `subparagraph (A)'.
- (e) Waiver Authority- Section 217(c)(8) of the Immigration
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1187(c)(8)) is amended to read as follows:
- `(8) WAIVER AUTHORITY- The Secretary of Homeland
Security, in consultation with the Secretary of State, may waive the
application of paragraph (2)(A) for a country if--
- `(A) the country meets all security requirements of this section;
- `(B) the Secretary of Homeland Security determines
that the totality of the country's security risk mitigation measures
provide assurance that the country's participation in the program would
not compromise the law enforcement, security interests, or enforcement
of the immigration laws of the United States; and
- `(C) the country cooperated with the Government of
the United States on counterterrorism initiatives, information sharing,
and preventing terrorist travel before the date of its designation as a
program country, and the Secretary of Homeland Security and the
Secretary of State determine that such cooperation will continue.'.
SEC. 4. TERMINATION OF DESIGNATION; PROBATION.
- Section 217(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1187(f)) is amended to read as follows:
- `(f) Termination of Designation; Probation-
- `(1) DEFINITIONS- In this subsection:
- `(A) PROBATIONARY COUNTRY- The term `probationary
country' means a program country placed in probationary status under
paragraph (2)(B).
- `(B) PROBATIONARY PERIOD- The term `probationary
period' means the fiscal year in which a probationary country is placed
in probationary status under paragraph (2)(B).
- `(C) PROGRAM COUNTRY- The term `program country' has the meaning given that term in subsection (c)(1)(B).
- `(D) VISA OVERSTAY RATE- The term `visa overstay rate' has the meaning given that term in subsection (c)(1)(B).
- `(2) DETERMINATION AND NOTICE OF DISQUALIFICATION-
- `(A) DETERMINATION- Upon a determination by the
Secretary of Homeland Security that a program country's visa overstay
rate was more than 3 percent for the preceding fiscal year or that the
program country is not in compliance with all other program requirements
under subsection (c)(2), the Secretary shall notify the Secretary of
State.
- `(B) PROBATIONARY STATUS- If the Secretary of
Homeland Security makes a determination under subparagraph (A) for a
program country, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall place the
program country in probationary status for the fiscal year following the
fiscal year for which such determination was made.
- `(3) ACTIONS AT TERMINATION OF THE PROBATIONARY PERIOD-
At the end of the probationary period of a probationary country, the
Secretary of Homeland Security shall take one of the following actions:
- `(A) COMPLIANCE DURING PROBATIONARY PERIOD- The
Secretary shall redesignate the probationary country as a program
country if the Secretary determines that during the probationary period
the probationary country--
- `(i) had a visa overstay rate not more than 3 percent; and
- `(ii) was in compliance with all other program requirements under subsection (c)(2).
- `(B) COMPLIANCE WITH VISA OVERSTAY RATE- The
Secretary may redesignate the probationary country as a program country
if the Secretary determines that during the probationary period the
probationary country had a visa overstay rate of not more than 3
percent.
- `(C) NONCOMPLIANCE WITH VISA OVERSTAY RATE-
- `(i) IN GENERAL- Subject to clause (ii), the
Secretary shall terminate the probationary country's participation in
the program if the Secretary determines that during the probationary
period the probationary country had a visa overstay rate of more than 3
percent.
- `(ii) ADDITIONAL PROBATIONARY PERIOD- The
Secretary may waive the application of clause (i) for the probationary
country if the Secretary, in consultation with the Director of National
Intelligence, certifies that the probationary country's continued
participation in the program does not pose a threat to law enforcement,
security, or enforcement of immigration laws, and place the country in
probationary status for one additional fiscal year.
- `(4) ACTIONS AT THE END OF ADDITIONAL PROBATIONARY
PERIOD- At the end of the additional 1-year period of probation granted
to a probationary country pursuant to subparagraph (C)(ii), the
Secretary shall take one of the following actions:
- `(A) COMPLIANCE DURING ADDITIONAL PERIOD- The
Secretary shall redesignate the probationary country as a program
country if the Secretary determines that during such additional period
the probationary country had a visa overstay rate not more than 3
percent.
- `(B) NONCOMPLIANCE DURING ADDITIONAL PERIOD- The
Secretary shall terminate the probationary country's participation in
the program if the Secretary determines that during such additional
period the probationary country had a visa overstay rate of more than 3
percent.
- `(5) EFFECTIVE DATE- The termination of a country's
participation in the program under paragraph (3) or (4) shall take
effect on the first day of the first fiscal year following the fiscal
year in which the Secretary determines that such participation shall be
terminated. Until such date, nationals of the country shall remain
eligible for a waiver under subsection (a).
- `(6) NONAPPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS- Paragraphs
(3) and (4) shall not apply to a program country unless the total
number of nationals of the program country that entered the United
States during the prior fiscal year exceeds 100.
- `(7) EMERGENCY TERMINATION-
- `(A) IN GENERAL- In the case of a program country
in which an emergency occurs that the Secretary of Homeland Security, in
consultation with the Secretary of State, determines threatens the law
enforcement or security interests of the United States (including the
interest in enforcement of the immigration laws of the United States),
the Secretary of Homeland Security shall immediately terminate the
designation of the country as a program country.
- `(B) EMERGENCY DEFINED- In this paragraph, the term `emergency' means--
- `(i) the overthrow of a democratically elected government in the program country;
- `(ii) war (including undeclared war, civil war, or other military activity) on the territory of the program country;
- `(iii) a severe breakdown in law and order affecting a significant portion of the program country's territory;
- `(iv) a severe economic collapse in the program country; or
- `(v) any other extraordinary event in the
program country that threatens the law enforcement or security interests
of the United States (including the interest in enforcement of the
immigration laws of the United States) and where the country's
participation in the program could contribute to that threat.
- `(C) REDESIGNATION- The Secretary of Homeland
Security may redesignate the country as a program country, without
regard to paragraph (3) or (4) or subsection (c)(2), if the Secretary,
in consultation with the Secretary of State, determines that--
- `(i) at least 6 months have elapsed since the effective date of the emergency termination under subparagraph (A);
- `(ii) the emergency that caused the termination has ended; and
- `(iii) the average visa overstay rate for that
country during the period of termination under this subparagraph was not
more than 3 percent.
- `(D) PROGRAM SUSPENSION AUTHORITY- The Director of
National Intelligence shall immediately inform the Secretary of Homeland
Security of any current and credible threat which poses an imminent
danger to the United States or its citizens and originates from a
country participating in the visa waiver program. Upon receiving such
notification, the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of
State--
- `(i) may suspend a program country from the visa waiver program without prior notice;
- `(ii) shall notify any country suspended under
clause (i) and, to the extent practicable without disclosing sensitive
intelligence sources and methods, provide justification for the
suspension; and
- `(iii) shall restore the suspended country's
participation in the visa waiver program upon a determination that the
threat no longer poses an imminent danger to the United States or its
citizens.
- `(8) TREATMENT OF NATIONALS AFTER TERMINATION- For purposes of this subsection and subsection (d)--
- `(A) nationals of a country whose designation is
terminated under paragraph (3), (4), or (7) shall remain eligible for a
waiver under subsection (a) until the effective date of such
termination; and
- `(B) a waiver under this section that is provided
to such a national for a period described in subsection (a)(1) shall
not, by such termination, be deemed to have been rescinded or otherwise
rendered invalid, if the waiver is granted prior to such termination.'.
SEC. 5. REVIEW OF OVERSTAY TRACKING METHODOLOGY.
- Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a
review of the methods used by the Secretary of Homeland Security--
- (1) to track aliens entering and exiting the United States; and
- (2) to detect any such alien who stays longer than such alien's period of authorized admission.
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