Louis O. Giuffrida

Louis Onorato "Jeff" Giuffrida (October 2, 1920 – November 20, 2012[1]) was the Ronald Reagan administration's first director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency[2] from 1981 to 1985.

As originally reported by Alfonso Chardy in a newspaper article in the Miami Herald, July 5, 1987, at the US Army War College, Giuffrida wrote a thesis outlining a military plan for the forcible relocation of millions of black Americans to concentration camps in the event of a national emergency involving racial strife.

Much of the thesis appears to be devoted to the history of racism and concludes that the treatment of blacks in the army offers a positive example to society (see pages 1 and 47) Prior to September 2014 the Miami Herald article was the only publication to share details about Giuffrida's thesis.

The institute trained state employees in emergency management and police in counter-terrorism activities..

Giuffrida was eventually forced out of the agency in 1985 after a Congressional investigation alleged that he spent government money to build a private residence at FEMA's Emergency Management Institute in Emmitsburg, Maryland as well as mismanagement and fraud.