RT Journal
T1 GOvernment services
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD August 20
VO 140
IS 16
SP 1281
OP 1282
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900510031012
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900510031012
AB SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 
    ASSISTANT FOR CIVIL DEFENSE LIAISON 
    Establishment of the position of Assistant for Civil Defense Liaison in the Office of the Secretary of Defense was announced with the appointment of Lieut. Col. Barnet W. Beers to this position.The creation of this new staff position results primarily from the necessity of assuring effective coordination of National Military Establishment activities which are closely related to civil defense with the activities of those civilian government agencies which have been made responsible for civil defense planning as such. The ultimate objective is to make certain that planning and preparations for civil defense are properly related to planning and preparations for military defense and that each complements the other.Colonel Beers had been executive assistant in the National Military Establishment Office of Civil Defense Planning since it was first established, on March 27, 1948. This office has been abolished, and its