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Rex 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984, was a classified scenario and drill developed by the United States federal government to detain large numbers of American citizens deemed to be "national security threats", in the event that the President declared a "State of National Emergency". The plan was first revealed in detail in a major daily newspaper by reporter Alfonso Chardy in the July 5 1987 edition of the ''Miami Herald''. Possible reasons for such a roundup were reported to be widespread opposition to a U.S. military invasion abroad, such as if the United States were to directly invade Central America. To combat what the government perceived as "subversive activities", the plan also authorized the military to direct ordered movements of civilian populations at state and regional levels, according to Professor Diana Reynolds.〔(Reynolds )〕 Earlier reports on Rex 84 were published as early as 1984 by the ''Spotlight'' newspaper ("Reagan Orders Concentration Camps") and other far right publications; as well as an affidavit filed by Attorney Daniel Sheehan of the Christic Institute in the La Penca bombing case. These claims did not prove to be reliable based on later reporting and research. Existence of a master military contingency plans (of which REX-84 was a part), "Garden Plot" and a similar earlier exercise, "Lantern Spike", were originally revealed by journalist Ron Ridenhour, who summarized his findings in an article in ''CounterSpy''. Transcripts from the Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987 record the following dialogue between Congressman Jack Brooks, Oliver North's attorney Brendan Sullivan and Senator Daniel Inouye, the Democratic Chair of the joint Senate-House Committee:〔(from the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, New York Times, July 14, 1987 )〕 Contingency plans by the US Government for rounding up people perceived by the government to be subversive or a threat to civil order have existed for many decades.〔Diana Reynolds, "(The Rise of the National Security State: FEMA and the NSC )," ''CovertAction Information Bulletin'', issue #33 (Winter 1990).〕 For example, from 1967 to 1971, the FBI kept a list of over 100,000 people to be rounded up as subversive, dubbed the "ADEX" list. ==See also== * NSPD-51 * COINTELPRO * Non-Detention Act * Posse Comitatus Act * Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 * Terrorist Screening Database * No Fly List * Palmer Raids 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rex 84」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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