Operation Garden Plot
| Interest of | REX-84 |
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Operation Garden Plot is concerned with using the Army as civil disturbance task force, to counter the possibility that local police could be hesitant or sympathize with non-violent protesters. [1]
“The anti-war and civil right protests picked up momentum in 1968. On 20 May 1972, the 10th Transportation Battalion assumed a secondary mission and provided 650 for a civil disturbance task force. The task force conducted garden Plot exercise on 6 and 7 September 1972 and 1st US Army commended the Soldiers for their professionalism. It conducted another Garden Plot Exercise from 18 to 20 January 1973. In February 1973, the US and North Vietnamese sign the Peace Accords in Paris and the US agreed to withdraw ground units from Vietnam. With troops out of the war, the need for a civil disturbance task force diminished.”
globalsecurity.org [2]
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| File:Jonestown.pdf | essay | 1985 | John Judge | A seminal work on Jim Jones, leader of The People's Temple and the massacre at Johnstown Guyana. |
