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Mr. Cutler resume: ois briefing, and turned ~ the next
major area in which the Planning Baard qualified .te gwmerul approva.
of Plan D-Minus as suitabie for defense mobilization rianning.
was peragTraph 5-b of the Planning Board's memorandum,
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which,
This
con-
trary to the thinking of Plan }Minus, the Planning Bours hac recom
mended that with respect *c the immediate post-attack ind necovery
periods, further consideration be given to utilizing exising Feders..
agencies rather than to creating new emergency Federal: agencies.
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explaining the Planning Board view on this matter. Mr
‘utier asked
the President and Councii whetner they could imagine, .:. “he :atastrophic conditions envisaged im Plan DeMinus, that w amergenn
National Food Agency
oulé
comceivablin be ser oupoum
The President vep.ied with emphasir tha’
oc.
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"tor
Im tec
States was going to conceivably survive any such attacs 4s was envi. .
aged in this Plan, yo! woulcertainiy have to have succ smergency
agencies as a food agency
Tris would probabl: me nitlaliy headed
by the Secretary of Awricul “ure, “ut in amy «vent the “resident sad:
he could not imagine -hat tits Nationa: Pood Agen we. be Shoug:*
ridiculous in the sliwvhtes* degre
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