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Spies for Peace was a group of Committee of 100 members who felt that sit-downs were not having sufficient impact on the government’s weapons policies. They advocated infiltration and expose: they broke into military bases and sought out unknown and secret government information. The group first exposed detailed government preparations for the event of nuclear war. In March 1963 Spies for Peace broke into a secret government headquarters, the Regional Seat of Government Number 6 (RSG-6) and photographed and copied as many documents as they could find. RSGs (Regional Seats of Government) were planned miniature governments, which would run the region immediately after nuclear attack. An RSG would include representatives of all the central government departments and would maintain law and order, communicate with the surviving population and control remaining resources. When Spies for Peace exposed this information the fact that government accepted thermonuclear war as a possibility and were consciously and carefully planning for it was virtually unknown to the public.
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