What happened at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia?
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Atlanta received word on September 20, 1990 that it had won the bid to host the 1996 Centennial Summer Olympics. The Atlanta Committee for the Organizing Games (ACOG), a group of business and political leaders co-chaired by Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and Atlanta real estate lawyer William “Billy” Payne, began the arduous task of organizing and financing the games.*Billy Payne
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Of special concern to ACOG was securing the 60+ athletic venues, the Olympic Village, and the 8-9 million visitors expected to visit the international sporting event. Payne promised to assemble approximately 30,000 security personnel under the ACOG umbrella to enforce the house rules inside the venues and operate the metal detectors. Law enforcement agencies of the city of Atlanta , the state of Georgia , the federal government, and an array of county and municipal law enforcement agencies, would be responsible for securing the perimeter and making arrests, if necessary.
An early security planning structure called the Olympic Security Support Group (OSSG) quickly ascertained that ACOG viewed the Olympics as a “private party” in spite of the substantial requirement for public resources, including law enforcement, fire service, and public health. Yet, most state and local law enforcement agencies had either few or misinformed ideas about preparing for the Olympics. For example, Richard “Stock” Coleman, a high-ranking State Patrol officer who served on the OSSG, thought the Office of Special Events (OSE) in the US Department of Defense, as well as the FBI, were wrong in their assumption that putting on the Olympics was qualitatively different than putting on any other large sporting event. He said:
“[T]here's a certain group of people who have tried to make the Olympics something unique, and it really isn't. It's just a sporting event. It's crowd management. But you have a group of people who try to make it some kind of mystique, and there's no great mystique to it. You fill a stadium and you empty a stadium; you fill a park and empty a park….There's no expertise in traffic management and moving people in and out of the stadium. What it comes down to is that guy on the corner waving his damn arms and blowing the whistle.” (p. 7)
Richard “Stock” Coleman
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He also pooh-poohed the need for an elaborate interagency planning process, instead viewing the Games as “20 ballgames that just happen to be going on at the same time.” Indeed, he said: “I would never have told the chiefs anything until about six months ahead and then I'd tell them all to rearrange their schedules [and that] I wanted a head count. Then I would have gotten the operational people in, and we would have gone over their head counts, and then I would have told them, “All right, this is your responsibility; this is your venue. I want you to make it safe like you would a sporting event and maybe add a couple of people to it. And I would have had the operational people identify one operational person for every venue they had, and I would have said, ‘Now run that son of a ** and call me when you get a problem, but don't call me till you have problems.'” (A, p. 9)
Stockman's “comments startled OSE staff and other veterans of past Olympics.” (A, p. 9) The OSE had expertise dating back to “1980 when it was created to help Lake Placid , New York prepare for the 1980 Winter Games. Its original purpose was to loan event organizers the kind of specialized materiel (helicopters, x-ray machines, secure radios, high-tech fencing, and surveillance equipment that would be prohibitively expensive to acquire for a single event but that the Defense Department had in abundance.” (A, p. 5) The OSE also had Dr. Chris Bellavita, an expert in organizational behavior, who was brought in to help develop the planning process (see also http://www.semp.us/securitas/jan_feb05.h... ).
By the end of 1993, ACOG, federal, state, and local officials were shifting their focus from the planning process to the actual planning itself. Each of the 61 venues would have an ACOG commander (to enforce the house rules) and a law enforcement commander (to protect the perimeter and make arrests). In the spring of 1994, ACOG realized that it would not have the 30,000 security personnel it needed to secure the Games.
Metropolitan Atlanta : 1,000 law enforcement officers.
State of Georgia : 5,000 law enforcement officers.
Federal: 2,000 law enforcement officers.
Private guards 2,500
Off duty police: 1,000 law enforcement officers
Civilian security volunteers 12,500
Total: 24,000 public safety personnel
Gap: 6,000
One more problem with the 24,000 count was the reliability of the 12,500 civilian volunteers ACOG intended to recruit. “[M]any law enforcement officers worried that once a large number of volunteers learned that they would not be working in venues, they would simply leave.” (A, p. 18)
1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta
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When ACOG became sufficiently nervous about the gap, it requested 8,000 troops from OSE, which gasped at the request, whittled the number down to 4,000, and then passed the request up the chain where it arrived to Secretary of Defense William Perry in the summer of 1995. The March 20, 1995 sarin terrorist attack in a Tokyo subway and the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City convinced the Defense Department to take on considerable responsibility for the outcome of the Games, the most high-profile event of the world in 1996. Atlanta was the home of a major Army command, US Forces Command or FORSCOM, the headquarters for the Third US Army. Eventually, FORSCOM decided to deploy approximately 11,000 troops during the Olympics.
Vice President Al Gore entered the picture in late 1995 when he visited Atlanta to check up on the preparations for the Games. He believed that a substantial increase in federal resources would be necessary to insure the safety of the Games. He followed Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick's suggestion to appoint Gilmore Childers, a New Yorker who had been the lead prosecutor in the 1993 World Trace Center bombing trial, to be the federal Olympic “czar.” Gore charged Childers with making the Games “safe,” even though the federal government had no line authority over the Atlanta Police Department or any of the state law enforcement people. Childers therefore could not “order” anything. Instead, he assured a steady flow of federal monies to the area and tried to keep Gore informed.
In the fall of 1995, federal officials began to develop preparedness plans for a chemical or biological terrorist attack during the Games. “The US Surgeon General, the Pentagon's director of military support, and the FBI had agreed to create an interagency unit with the expertise to analyze and recommend response to a biological attack. This ‘science and technology center' would consist of 50 to 75 government chemists and biologists and would be based at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which happened to be located in Atlanta .” (B, p. 10) The Marine Corps' Chemical and Biological Incident Response Force and special disaster medical assistance teams would respond to casualties. In addition, Atlanta 's hospitals developed mutual aid agreements in the event of a large-scale attack, and the CDC stockpiled a large number of antidotes to chemical weapons such as sarin, in the Atlanta area.
During a spring 1996 FBI meeting in Washington at which Gore was present, he interrupted the presenter and, according to Childers, asked “Excuse me, I've got a question.” The FBI agent paused. Gore said again: “I've got a question. Who's in charge?” The FBI agent replied, “Excuse me, sir?” Gore said again, “Who's in charge?” Gore was told that it depends on the situation.
The military focused on the terrorism preparedness while law enforcement focused on gridlock, logistical problems, bad weather, and transportation preparedness. Several major field exercises run by the FBI preceded the Games, including scenarios ranging from “a car-bomb-turned-hostage situation at the equestrian venue in Conyers , Georgia to a hostage-taking-***-bomb-threat at the Olympic stadium.” (B, p. 19) Both ACOG security personnel and law enforcement agencies participated in these exercises to test their interaction in a crisis. No other agency mounted full-scale exercises. Instead, agencies relied on “table top” exercises conducted by OSE consultant Chris Bellavita, which occurred approximately three times per week. “In these exercises, Bellavita assembled public safety officials with command responsibility from a wide variety of agencies, presented them with an unfolding crisis, and pushed them to describe how they would interact with each other under these circumstances.” (B, p. 19)
Bellavita expressed his cautious optimism about security at the Games: “Most agencies seem close to being ready internally for the Olympics. However, at the command post level, there has been very little testing yet of integration among agencies. Most of that integration will probably come together after July 19 th [i.e., after the Games begin]. Police are good at reacting. If the Olympics are like other major events, the first few days will be busy, confusing, and perhaps frustrating. But they will provide a lot of opportunities for learning how to do things better.” (B, p. 19)
Editor's Note : Most countries have a national police force in addition to the military. The US does not have a national police force with the partial exception of the FBI. In addition, the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 restricts scope of practice for the military in domestic situations. In large events such as Olympic Games, a knot of federal, state, and local organizations is almost inevitable. Integrating their organizational cultures and coordinating their activities are major challenges.
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*John Buntin: “Security Preparations for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games (A) and (B). 2000, Kennedy School of Government. Available for a nominal fee at: http://www.ksgcase.harvard.edu/... .
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