US embassy cable - 05ROME3838

UNCLAS ROME 003838 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
E.O. 12958:  N/A 
TAGS: DEPT OF STATE FOR DS/AS, DS/DSS, DS/EX, DS/IP, DS/ITA, DS/P, S/CT, EUR/EX, EUR/WE, FSI/LMS/CMT, CA/OCS/ACS  POSTS FOR RSO, PSO 
SUBJECT:  CRISIS MANAGEMENT EXERCISE MISSION ITALY - 
DECEMBER 14 and 16, 2005. 
 
 
1. (SBU) Mission Italy will host an unclassified Crisis 
Management Exercise (CME) on December 14 at Turin, Italy and 
December 16, at American Embassy Rome. The exercise will be 
facilitated by Douglas Kinney, Crisis Management Training 
Division, Leadership and Management School, Foreign Service 
Institute. The purpose of this special  Mission Italy CME is 
to exercise crisis planning and execution by Mission Italy, 
including the Olympics Security Coordination team in Turin 
consisting of members of  DSS, FBI, DOD, FEST,POL/MIL, and 
non-security members of the Olympics Coordination team 
(Consular, Public Affairs)under the direction of Consul 
General Milan, and Rome's Emergency Action Committee. 
 
2. (SBU) Security participants in Turin are expected to be 
the actual agency operational personnel who will be assigned 
to the USG Olympics Security Coordination (OSC) team in 
Turin during the Winter Olympics.   The following agencies 
are asked to have a representative on hand for the Turin 
exercise as those elements will plan a role in the day to 
day operations of the Turin Operations and Threat 
Integration Center. Due to the limited size of this exercise 
and other constraints, each agency may provide only the 
following number of persons;  DSS (2),FBI (2) , FEST (4), 
DOD (EUCOM) (2),  Pol/Mil (1) ,TSA (1) ,OSAC (1),  NGA (1) 
DOE (1), DOJ (1), NSA (1), USSS (1), and NCTC (1) .   Due to 
the structure of the exercise in Turin, not all contributing 
agencies will be required to sit at the OSC Command Group 
Table but will be expected to be on hand and available to 
the OSC Command Group for consultation and taskings. 
Security agencies are asked not to send non-participating 
supervisors or office directors as observers, as the 
security aspect of this exercise is designed specifically 
for USG Olympics Security Coordination team members who will 
be present in an operational capacity during the 2006 Winter 
Games.  The non-security members of the USG Olympics Coordination 
team planning to be present in Turin for the Winter Olympics 
will constitute the rest of the players in Turin. 
 
3. (SBU) American Embassy Rome's Emergency Action Committee 
will participate from Rome for the Turin exercise on 
December 14 as will Turin for the Rome exercise on December 
16, 2005. Consulate General Milan's EAC, staffed according 
to the plans during the Turin Olympics, will participate 
from Milan. American Embassy Rome will have ultimate 
operational control for all aspects of this exercise. 
 
4.  (SBU) For that part of the exercise conducted in Rome on 
December 16, Rome's Emergency Action Committee will handle a 
series of incidents affecting Mission Italy, focused on 
threats in Rome and including Olympic-related events, with 
Turin's Olympic team participating from Turin. 
 
Requests for country clearance must be sent to American 
Embassy Rome. 
 
SPOGLI