Basic Responsibilities Paper 2
Basic Responsibilities Paper 2 :
There is a document in the Government now, known as our Basic Responsibilities Paper, that was approved by the President. For a long time it was available only in a classified form and with a limited circulation. In effect we tried to operate it in 1956 without having circulated it, and that's a good trick if you can do it.l That's one of the reasons we have some confusion. This paper is an agreement between the Secretary of Defense and the Director of ODM and the Administrator of FCDA, approved by the President. So in effect it's a Presidential order. FCDA becomes a claimant, among its other responsibilities, for the entire civilian economy in the United States following the attack. DOD claims for the military in the United States. ODM acts as the umpire for the President. (ICAF, Civil Defense Today, 1957, p. 21)
