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

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SECURITY POLICY CONCERNING TRAVEL AND ASSIGNMENT
OF PERSONNEL WITH ACCESS TO SENSITIVE
COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION (SCI)'
(Effective 8 April 1983)
Pursuant to the provisions of the Director of Central Intelligence Directive
(DCID) on the Security Committee, 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.
This policy is based upon the need to protect SCI from possible compromise
resulting from the capture, interrogation, exploitation, or entrapment of personnel
(stipulated above) by hostile nations or groups.
a. Defensive Security Briefings-formal advisories which alert traveling
personnel to the potential for harassment, provocation, or entrapment.
These briefings are based on actual experience when available, and include
information on courses of action helpful in mitigating adverse security and
personal consequences.
b. Hazardous Activities-assignments or visits to, and travel through, coun-
tries 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. The use of vessels owned or controlled by a country
listed in the attached Appendix is also included.
c. Risk of Capture Briefings-formal advisories which alert personnel as to
what may be expected in the way of attempts to force or trick them to di-
vulge 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.
d. Senior Officials of the Intelligence Community (SOICs)-for the pur-
poses of this policy statement, SOICs are defined as the heads of organiza-
tions within the Intelligence Community, as defined by Executive Order
12333, or their designated representatives.
e. Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)-all information and mate-
rials 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
MORI
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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 with-
in, or with other activities involving, the countries listed in the attached Appendix,
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.
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 sub-
jected 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, encoun-
tered during such travel.
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 intelli-
gence collection or exploitation system/methods;
(2) designated system targets or sources;
(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 vulnera-
bilities.
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.
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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 will coordinate required support
including source material concerning these risks.
b. SOICs will issue implementing directives concerning travel and assignment
of personnel of their departments or agencies. Such directives will include
the overall policy, definitions, and criteria set forth herein and will 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; and
(4) ensuring that new information obtained by their departments or
agencies on harassments or provocations, or on risk of capture
situations, is provided to the DCI and to other interested NFIB
agencies. (Where warranted by new information, changes to the
Appendix hereto will be made. Recommendations with supporting
jusitification may be made for either addition or deletion of
countries.)
5. Classification.
As this directive sets forth security policy for persons with access to SCI, it merits
and warrants the overall classification of CONFIDENTIAL in its totality. 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.
Attachment:
Countries and Areas in Which Visits, Travel, and Assignment are Considered
to be a Hazardous Activity.
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APPENDIX
COUNTRIES AND AREAS IN WHICH VISITS, TRAVEL, AND
ASSIGNMENT ARE CONSIDERED TO BE A
HAZARDOUS ACTIVITY
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