No Objection To Declassification in Full 2013 11 15 NLC-12-60-4-17-0 - MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE 10 COMPLETELY OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM WASHINGTON TOP SECRET SENSITIVE XGDS INFORMATION March 15 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI FROM WILLIAM E ODOM SUBJECT White House Emergency Procedures Working Group Meeting N o Hugh Garter held today the first meeting of a working group on emer - gency procedures Representatives from the National Military Command Center the Federal Preparedness Agency the White House Communi- cations Agency the White House Military Aide's Office the Vice President's staff and the National Security Council attended Points of interest to you and the President Brigadier General Atkinson of the Na ional Military Command Center explained -- Threat Assessment Conference Call Six to eight of these calls occur per year Initiated by technical criteria they may be stimulated by our own missile testing or by sensor failures At Tab A is a listing of Conferees -- Missile Attack Conference Call None has ever been held They are initiated when NORAD Comm ander decides the situation warrants A list of Conferees is at Tab B None has ever been held This high priority call includes other nuclear incidents in addition to missile attacks The Conierees are listed at Tab C -- Nuc£1ash Conference Call General Atkinson thinly veiled his concern that you and the President might not under stand the distinction between threat assessment conference calls which do occur the missile attack and the nucflash calls which have never occurred As you can see from a list of Conferees the President would be placed immediately in the missile attack and nucflash calls Although the Assistant for National Security Affairs is • TOP SECRET SENSITIVE XGDS No Objection To Declassification in Full 2013 11 15 NLC-12-60-4-17-0 No Objection To Declassification in Full 2013 11 15 NLC-12-60-4-17-0 TOP SECRET SENSITIVE XGDS 2 not listed as a Conferee our WHCA switchboard procedures indicate that you would be notified and placed in conference Thir naturally depends upon your being available by'phone It is a WHCA requirement of course that the President be immediately available by phone whether travelling or in the White House General Bray Director of the Federal Preparedness Agency brought up the policy issue of dispersing Presidential successors automatically in short-warning situations I had intended to inform him that an automati 7 procedure is approved but ambiguities in his discussion of the procedures convinced rne that they must be clarified before this approval can be granted He will report to me on this matter with new recommendations Hugh Carter is acquiring a Deputy Herb Upton a former Marine officer to oversee the WHEP He should be cleared for duty within ten days Gulley and I reminded Hugh Carter that the Emergency Staff lists for the WHEP need to be completed VERY SOON Hugh Carter found the meeting sufficiently useful to schedule a followup meeting for April 15th TOP SECRET SENSITIVE XGDS No Objection To Declassification in Full 2013 11 15 NLC-12-60-4-17-0 • C·2 1 c•--- ' 2 -- i r tJ - 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