fusion

News media with eyes trained on
Washington have rarely covered the
secretive but highly active FEMA since
its inception. This special report reviews
FEMA's mandate and presents
the agency's preparations for emergency
government in the words of
FEMA officials.
The TMI Story
Fusion first reported on FEMA during
the Three Mile Island incident.
We learned that on March 27, 1979,
the agency had become operational,
centralizing all "crisis management"
functions with accountability solely to
the National Security Council. FEMA
had jumped the gun on its officially
designated April 1 activation, and just
a day after it became operational, the
Three Mile Island crisis began.
nesses and Associated Press and Baltimore
Sun accounts, controlled the
flow of information—and glaring misinformation—about
the Harrisburg
events.
The evidence from TMI, plus the
material presented here, suggests that
FEMA is, in fact, gearing up to help
create the crises that will justify its
mandate for dictatorial power over
every operating level of government,
industry, and banking.
Other Crises
FEMA's other crisis management interventions
to date include planning
the New York City transit strike of
April 1980 one year in advance and
coordinating the Mayor's emergency
measures with the explicit purpose
not of standby facilitation of urban
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