SECURITY POLICY CONCERNING TRAVEL AND ASSIGNMENT OF PERSONNEL WITH ACCESS TO SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION (SCI) (U)

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2005
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DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 1/20
SECURITY POLICY CONCERNING TRAVEL AND ASSIGNMENT
OF PERSONNEL WITH ACCESS TO SENSITIVE
COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION (SCI) (U)
(Effective
Pursuant to Section 102 of the National Security Act of 1947 and
Executive Order 12333, minimum security policy is herewith established for
assignment and travel of U.S. Government civilian and military personnel,
government consultants and employees of government contractors who have, or
who have had, access to SCI.
1. Purpose
This policy is based upon the need to protect SCI from possible
compromise resulting from the capture, interrogation, exploitation, or
entrapment of SCI-knowledgeable personnel by hostile nations or groups or as a
result of terrorist actions.
2. Definitions
a. Defensive Security Briefings--formal advisories which alert traveling
personnel to the potential for harassment, provocation, or
entrapment. These briefings, based on actual experience when
available, include information on courses of action helpful in
mitigating adverse security and personal consequences, and advise of
1 This directive supersedes the policy statement on Security Policy Concerning
Travel and Assignment of Personnel with Access to Sensitive Compartmented
Information (SCI), effective 8 April 1983.
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passive and active measures which personnel should take to avoid
becoming targets or inadvertent victims of terrorism.
b. Hazardous Activities--assignments or visits to, and travel through,
countries listed in the attached Appendix. Hazardous activities also
include assignment or travel in combat zones or other areas where
hostilities are taking place, duties behind hostile lines, and duties
or travel in isolated or exposed areas where individuals cannot
reasonably be protected against hostile action or in areas or
countries subject to substantial risk of terrorist acts. The use of
vessels owned or controlled by a country listed in the attached
Appendix is also included.
c. Terrorism--premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated
against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine
state agents.
d. Risk of Capture Briefings--advisories which alert personnel as to what
may be expected in the way of attempts to force or trick them to
divulge classified information if captured or detained and of
suggested courses of action they should follow to avoid or limit such
divulgence. These advisories include instructions/advice for advance
preparation of innocuous, alternate explanations of duties and
background.
e Senior Officials of the Intelligence Community (SOICs)--for the
purpose of this directive, SOICs are defined as the heads of
organizations within the Intelligence Community, as defined by
Executive Order 12333, or their designated representatives.
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f Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)--all information and
materials requiring special Community controls indicating restricted
handling within present and future Community intelligence collection
programs and their end products. These special Community controls are
formal systems of restricted access established to protect the
sensitive aspects of sources, methods, and analytical procedures of
foreign intelligence programs. The term does not include Restricted
Data as defined in Section II, Public Law 585, Atomic Energy Act of
1954, as amended.
3. Policy
Persons granted access to information about the sensitive aspects of
sources, methods, and analytical procedures of foreign intelligence incur a
special security obligation and are to be alerted to the risks associated with
travel to, through, or within, or with other activities involving, the
countries listed in the attached Appendix and areas or countries subject to
substantial risk of terrorism.
a. Official Travel. No person with access to SCI will be assigned or
directed to participate in a hazardous activity, as defined herein,
until he or she has been afforded a defensive security briefing and/or
risk of capture briefing by an official specified by the cognizant
SOIC. (Consideration will be given to the relative protection enjoyed
by U.S. personnel having diplomatic status except for circumstances in
which there is a substantial risk of terrorist acts.)
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b. Unofficial Travel. All persons having access to SCI who plan
unofficial travel to, through, or within countries listed in the
attached Appendix must:
(1) give advance notice of such planned travel;
(2) obtain a defensive security briefing from the specified official
prior to performing such travel;
(3) contact immediately the nearest U.S. Consul, Attache, or Embassy
Regional Security Officer or Post Duty Officer if detained or
subjected to significant harassment or provocation while
traveling; and
(4) report to the specified official upon return from travel any
unusual incidents, including incidents of potential security
concern, encountered during such travel. (Department and Agency
personnel should be encouraged to report incidents of security
concern they encounter in other countries as well.)
Failure to comply with the above provisions may result in the withdrawal
of approval for continued access to SCI:
c. Specific and Extensive Knowledge. Persons with specific and extensive
knowledge of the following aspects of foreign intelligence shall be
advised that unofficial travel without the approval of the cognizant
SOIC may result in the withdrawal of approval for continued access to
SCI:
(1) technological structure, function, and techniques of sensitive
intelligence collection or exploitation system/methods;
(2) designated system targets or sources;
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(3) method and purpose of target selection;
(4) degree of success of collection or exploitation system/method; or
(5) collection of exploitation system/method capabilities and
vulnerabilities.
d. Previous Access. Persons whose access to SCI is being terminated
will be officially reminded of their continuing obligation to protect
SCI and will be afforded advisories on the risks associated with
participation in hazardous activities.
4. Responsibilities
a. The DCI will cause to be prepared and disseminated to the SOICs a list
of countries identified as posing a security risk bearing on this
policy (see Appendix). The Security Committee shall coordinate
required support including source material concerning these risks.
b. SOICs shall issue implementing directives concerning travel and
assignment of personnel of their departments or agencies. Such
directives shall include the overall policy, definitions, and criteria
set forth herein and provide for:
(1) an annual reminder of the policy set forth in paragraph 3, above;
(2) defensive security briefings or risk of capture briefings to
personnel of their departments or agencies;
(3) institution of positive programs for the collection of information
reported under the provisions of paragraph 3b(4), above
(4) ensuring that new information obtained by their departments or
agencies on incidents of security concern (e.g. harassments,
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provocations or terrorist actions), or on risk of capture
situations, is provided to the DCI Security Committee and to other
interested NFIB agencies.
(5) Ensuring that recommendations for changes to the Appendix hereto
are made to the DCI Security Committee and provide justification
for addition or deletion of countries.
5. Classification
As this directive sets forth security policy for persons with access to
SCI, it is classified CONFIDENTIAL in its entirety. Selected paragraphs may
be excerpted for use at the FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY level by SOICs, their
designees, or SCI Special Security/Control officers, when considered
appropriate. The identification of any country in the Appendix as having been
designated as a hazardous area by the DCI is classified CONFIDENTIAL.
(DRAFT)
William J. Casey
Attachment:
Countries and Areas in Which Visits, Travel, and Assignment are
Considered to be a Hazardous Activity.
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