Frank Salcedo

In a 1983 conference, Gen. Frank Salcedo, then-chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division, stated that he saw FEMA's role as a "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis."

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