Michael Loewinger
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17 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
Michael Loewinger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I wonder if this classified continuity of government planning helps explain why there was so little media about FEMA when it was first created.
I think the feds just didn't want to draw attention to their secret plans.
That said, the coverage did pick up when the agency launched a controversial new initiative.
The
of lesser risk.
A mass evacuation program.
There was sort of the sense of, well, if you could just get twenty, thirty, fifty miles away from a major city, you would at least have a chance to survive the initial blast from the nuclear weapons and then live into nuclear winter.
Government officials estimated that in the worst case, sixty million Americans could survive an attack.
Can you imagine all those urbanites swamping small towns and rural areas?
News reports at the time featured a mixture of fascination and incredulity.
My God, you're gonna have modified anarchy after that sort of thing.
Uh how in the world are you going to coordinate the recovery and putting leadership back into place?
How you gonna do that?
Sixty million is still a lot of people.
That is the modern population of France.
Those people would need a functioning government and functioning infrastructure afterward.
This is where we start getting into the bizarre conspiracy theories that haunt FEMA today.
In 1982, in an effort to game out some of these post-apocalyptic scenarios, President Ronald Reagan signed a secret executive order to create a covert program called Project 908.
That's 908, but they called it 908.
It pulled billions of dollars in top officials from the National Security Council, FEMA, and the FBI.
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