HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF FOR INTELLIGENCE WASHINGTON, D. C. 20310 SUBJECT: Department of the Army Civil Disturbance Information 1. (U) Forwarded herewith for your information is the Department of the Army Civil Disturbance Information Collection Plan (ACDP). 2. (U) Any information that may come to the attention of addressees related to the subject matter covered by this plan will be appreciated by the Department of the Army. In this connection, no active investigation is requested. Such information should be addressed to the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, ATTN: ACSI-DSCC&O, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C. 20310. 3. (U) Regraded UNCLASSIFIED when separated from CLASSIFIED inclosure. Headquarters Department of the Any DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY CIVIL DISTURBANCE INFORMATION COLLECTION PLAN (ACDP) (U) 1. (U) REFERENCES: a. JCS SM 695-63, 25 May 1963. b. JCS Publication 2, paragraph 40505, 40506, and 40507. C. DA Civil Disturbance Plan (U), 1 February 1968. 2. (C) GENERAL: a. The Department of the Army Civil Disturbance Information Collection Plan (ACDP) provides basic guidance and direction for the planning, coordination, and employment of DA intelligence and counterintelligence resources in the collection and reporting of information pertinent to civil disturbances. b. It is recognized that Army assistance to local or State authorities in peacetime, as well as in wartime emergency, is a long standing tradition in our country. In most instances in the past, such assistance was rendered with a minimum of advance information concerning the situation. The current civil disturbance situation dictates a change in the degree to which the Army must seek advance information concerning potential and probable trouble areas and trouble makers. c. The Army is well aware that the overwhelming majority in both the anti-war and the racial movements are sincere Americans. It also realizes that in both groups there is a small but virulent number who are out to tear.. America apart. During demonstrations and disturbances these are the activists that control the violent action. These are people who deliberately exploit the unrest and seek to generate violence and terror for selfish purposes. If the Army must be used to quell violence it wants to restore law and order as quickly as possible and return to its normal protective role to do this it must know in advance as much as possible about the well springs of violence and the heart and nerve causes of chaos. To do less means the professional violence purveyors will have a better chance to achieve their end aims law breaking, social disintegration, chaos, violence, destruction, insurrection, revolution. - to d. In obtaining the information called for in this plan the Army seeks only to collect that needed to exercise honest and sound judgment of the measures to be taken in suppressing rampant violence and restoring order to assure that only the mildest effective measures are exercised to insure that no overstepping of the degree of force or circumscription needed is applied conserve military resources and to avoid infringment on the responsibility and authority of civil government agencies to insure pervasive vigilance for the fundamental rights of private citizens by the selective and enlightened use of force in restraint against those who are truly violating the rights of their fellow citizens. |