This Is How The U.S. National Security Agency Will Protect Itself During A Pandemic

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BuzzFeed: Here’s How The National Security Agency Will Protect Itself During A Pandemic

Secret documents sketch out the worst-case scenario for “a 1918-like pandemic and no effective response.”

The Department of Health and Human Services has recommended that intelligence community personnel have at least three months’ worth of food on hand in the event of an uncontrolled pandemic.

The recommendation was contained in an unclassified influenza contingency plan drafted in 2009 by the National Security Agency. It details the sweeping steps the spy agency should take to keep its personnel safe and working on critical intelligence matters in the event of such a crisis.

The 50-page document — obtained by BuzzFeed News last July following a six-year Freedom of Information Act battle — tracks closely with steps that have now been widely adopted by Americans facing the current coronavirus outbreak, which the World Health Organization officially declared a global pandemic this week. The contingency plan was drafted in response to a 2006 directive from then-president George W. Bush that called upon federal government agencies to implement a "national strategy" for a potential influenza pandemic.

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WNU Editor: The 50 page NSA manual on what to do during a pandemic is here.