Does anyone know or have heard of this?

Blitzzz (RIP) · 01-05-2009, 00:33

Operation Garden Plot

[Acquired via a circuitous route from the Internet. Sources have been deleted to protect their identity. Thanks to the tireless work of you guys out there. If the guy(s) who gathered this great scoop wish to be identified, please email me. Forest<glen@bayarea.net> ]

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.

Blitzzz (RIP) · 01-05-2009, 00:34

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.

This is from an E-mail sent to me from a friend. Blitzzz

incarcerated · 01-05-2009, 01:09

Hadn't heard of it.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/jtf-la.htm

http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/rio.htm

http://www.uscg.mil/directives/cim/3...IM_3010_14.pdf

http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...arden_plot.htm

I am finding that the www.cafes.net link will not open.

6.8SPC_DUMP · 01-05-2009, 01:58

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Operation Garden Plot
The United States Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2

I'm glad you posted this Sir. I'm not someone "in the know" like some of the extremely accomplished members here, but the thesis for my Poli. Sci. degree was on FEMA and it's not at all what I thought it was. There are very clear ways for the Fed to bypass the Constitution in times of national emergency. FEMA was created for just such reasons during the Cold War in preparation of a nuclear attack. Complicated and interesting topic with far reaching implications. For example some law abiding citizens had their guns confiscated at gun point and not returned during the Katrina incident. That seemed similar to the house to house raids in unstable Iraq areas. I'd be really interested in hearing the thoughts about domestic deployment from some of our nations bravest here.

Guy · 01-05-2009, 04:13

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Originally Posted by 6.8SPC_DUMP

For example some law abiding citizens had their guns confiscated at gun point and not returned during the Katrina incident. That seemed similar to the house to house raids in unstable Iraq areas. I'd be really interested in hearing the thoughts about domestic deployment from some of our nations bravest here.

Katrina -vs- Iraq operations are: two "totally" different operations/scenarios.....

Stay safe.

Penn · 01-05-2009, 06:58

Guy, I think you are totally correct on the Apples and Orange’s scenario. To help clarify the point: it’s in the Operational environments; Iraq is a war zone, where as, in this instance, we are contemplating Marshall Law, warrantless search and seizure, with permissible use of deadly force across the spectrum spanning peaceful civil protest that hinders the function of government, to the extreme of armed uprising. It’s a very broad law… and combined with several other recent discussion on this board, concerning the all volunteer force, and threat to democracy posed by a standing Army, one has to question where they would position their loyalties if this situation were to transpire in the event of a full civil protest, where leadership activate: The United States Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2 in a non disaster emergency to quell civil unrest.
For those of us who have signed the contract to protect and defend, it would be a interesting point of departure; considering this law was passed without participation of you and me, the citizen’s of the United States of America.

Soft Target · 01-05-2009, 07:50

Alright, you FOGs, fess up. Who spent wasted hours standing in ranks with plastic facehields on your steel pots?

I'll let the lawyers handle the legal ramifications.

**Pete** · 01-05-2009, 08:06

The Military is tasked with coming up with plans.

How many times have you heard the press "The Military has plans to......"

Kinda' like a giant CYA thing. What if.......?

I'll bet in some dusty vault somewhere there are plans for the 82nd to be used to invade the moon. Probably done in the late 70's and covers a first move made by the USSR.

Penn · 01-05-2009, 08:10

Gotta have a plan, but what if...what postion would you take?

SF_BHT · 01-05-2009, 08:23

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Originally Posted by Pete

The Military is tasked with coming up with plans.

How many times have you heard the press "The Military has plans to......"

Kinda' like a giant CYA thing. What if.......?

I'll bet in some dusty vault somewhere there are plans for the 82nd to be used to invade the moon. Probably done in the late 70's and covers a first move made by the USSR.

Someone was probably tasked to come up with something at the last minute and did it and they figured if needed they would clean it up. I can not telly you how many plans I have done only to shred them later as thing changed or got clarified.

**The Reaper** · 01-05-2009, 09:34

It looks bogus to me.

While the Army is tasked to do a number of things to support domestic preparedness issues, this would be a violation of Posse Comitatus. The Guard, OTOH, could be called in to do many of these things, and that list has recently been expanded to include things like bird flu, etc.

If it was printed in 1984, and refers to the Central and Eastern European democracies, it was either updated since then or is complete BS. MAC became AMC many years ago, so it would appear to be mixing pre-'89 Soviet breakup terms with post-'89 political situations.

Not too many official documents have that many typos, or refer to the "Marine Corp." The term "resistance group, religious organization, or other persons considered to be non-conformist" does not sound right either.

I think the whole thing is a hoax, either using an existing plan for a template, or made up by someone who had read plans before, probably former military.

I am sure that the tinfoil hatters ate this stuff up.

Just my .02, YMMV.

TR

Sten · 01-05-2009, 09:45

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(tin foil away)

**Razor** · 01-05-2009, 09:50

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Originally Posted by 6.8SPC_DUMP

For example some law abiding citizens had their guns confiscated at gun point and not returned during the Katrina incident. That seemed similar to the house to house raids in unstable Iraq areas.

IIRC, the firearms seizures were conducted by the New Orleans police, not by federal entities.

Penn · 01-05-2009, 09:59

On a second reading of the post; I agree with TR.

CSB · 01-05-2009, 10:12

1 - There really is a Contingency Plan (CONPLAN) named Garden Plot.

2 - We conducted exercises under GARDEN PLOT back in the 1970's.

3 - For all practical purposes, it is little more than riot control.

4 - Key to any federal troop deployments is the complete inability of the individual state to maintain order, protect life and property. It fact, almost always the plan anticipates that the State will specifically ask for federal assistance.

Given that the really is such a plan, it would take very little to add bullshit phrases (such as "non-conformists") and pass off the result as if it was an actual part of the plan.

There were bombings in the United States, remember (university of Wisconson Math Building) and people were being killed by what we would today call domestic terrorists. Back then they were the "Weathermen" and the "Weather Underground" among others.