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To: John Hunt who wrote (33198)	5/5/1999 9:37:00 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116759

<< Thomas Barnett, director of the Y2K security project, says his team has been coaching every branch of the military -- indeed even the Marines -- since last fall, planning drills and simulating Y2K breakdowns. Just this week, Barnett plans to take some military and FBI people to the World Trade Center to develop possible responses to a stock market crash. >> I thought Ron told us the Guard would just be there to "help" us with food & water???????

To: John Hunt who wrote (33198)	5/5/1999 11:29:00 PM
From: CuriousGeorge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116759

FROM THE PEOPLE THAT BROUGHT YOU WACO JANET RENO DEVELOPS AGENCY THAT WILL DEAL WITH Y2K CRISIS Attorney General Janet Reno has quietly created a small agency within the FBI that will deal with Y2K repercussions. The agency, The National Domestic Preparedness Office, is now up and running -- and preparing -- despite the fact it does not officially exist! Congress has not yet approved its budget. A mission statement from the NDPO: "To coordinate all Federal efforts, including those of the Department of Defense, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, and the Environmental Protection Agency, to assist State and local first responders with planning, training, equipment, and exercise necessary to respond to a conventional or non-conventional weapon of mass destruction incident." But investigative legend Jack Anderson is set to report in his syndicated column that the NDPO will be the federal authority for any national Y2K repercussions. Anders also reports: Later this month, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will hold a national "table top" simulated scenario drill -- similar to the "war games" played out in the military. The drill "will pull together all emergency and military resources. FEMA, along with the National Guard, is responsible for coordinating state and local responses to Y2K problems while the State Department will cover international social problems," Anderson reports. The U.S. military is quietly planning a sophisticated social-response network in case civil unrest should erupt. Military types are denying a newspaper story that captured Marines in a "civil unrest exercise" at Quantico. "They told me what the exercise was about and then asked me not to report it," says Dave Ellis of the POTOMAC NEWS. The reporter filed a Page One story that ran with a photo apparently showing the Marines in "Y2K riot training". "[The Marines] were worried that people would think they were painting helicopters black and training for a huge government crackdown at the millennium," he explains. X X X X X drudgereport.com