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The FCDA has developed a statement with respect t% basic
planning assumptions for the fiscal year 1955 which it wishes to release
for use by state and local Civil Defense organizations.
These assumptions
include a cnnsiderable amount of significant data with respect t> the effect
of nuclear weapons, targets, destruction, etc.*
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A number of additinnal actirns and public statements will
need tobe developed with respect t» FCDA's annual report, FCDA's
exchange of Civil Defense information with friendly countries, and public
information developed through the ODM with respect to non-military defense
measures (industrial dispersion, dispersal of federal agencies, etc.}.
These
actions may have important aspects affecting the United States position
overseas, depending principally upen their content and their timing in
relation to other significant overseas developments.
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Major Responsibilities for Actions Cited Aboves
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The FCDA under Public Law 920 has responsibility to "publiely
disseminate appropriate Civil Defense information by all appropriate means,"
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The AEC under the Atomic Fnergy
Act of 1946 is charged with
making available to Congress and the publie unclassified reports with —
respect to atomic energyo
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The ODM, under authority of the National Security Aet and
Reorganization Plan No. 3, has responsibility for the brvad programming of
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non-military defense measures, incliding public information with respect to
such measuress
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*On March 22, 1954, the Justice Department made publie a circular which
v* “lin January 1954 had been sent to all U.sS, law enforcement officials by FBI
; “Director J, Edgar liner, requesting an alert against possible smuggling of
gmall atomic weapons into this ewuntry by enemy ecents. This March public
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