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

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87B01034R000500190016-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2005
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: June 6, 1978
• Content Type: REGULATION

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SECURITY POLICY CONCERNING TRAVEL AND ASSIGNMENT OF'
PERSONNEL WITH ACCESS TO SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED
INFORMATION (SCI)'
(Effective 1982)
Pursuant to the provisions of the Director of Central Intel-
ligence Directive (DCID) on the Security Committee, minimum secu-
rity policy is herewith established for assignment and travel of
U.S. Goverment civilian and military personnel, government con-
sultants 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 possi-
ble compromise resulting from the capture, interrogation, ex-
ploitation, or entrapment of personnel (stipulated above) by
-hostile nations or groups.
2. Definitions
a. Defensive Security Briefings--formal advisories which
alert traveling personnel to the potential for harassment, prov-
ocation, or entrapment. These briefings are based on actual ex-
perience when available, and include information on courses of
action helpful in mitigating adverse security and personal con-
sequences.
b. Hazardous Activities--include assignments or visits to,
and travel through, countries listed in the attached Appendix.
Hazardous activities also include assignment or travel in com-
bat zones or other areas where hostilities are taking place,
duties behind hostile lines, and duties or travel in isolated or
exposed areas where indivduals cannot reasonably be protected
against hostile action.
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 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 in-
structions/advice for advance preparation of innocuous, alternate
explanations of duties and background.
I This policy statement supersedes DCID No. 1/20, effective 6
June 1978.
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d. Senior Officials of the intelligence Community (SOIC)--
for-the purposes of this policy statement, SOICs are defined as
the heads of organizations within -the intelligence Community,
as defined by Executive Order 12333, or their designated repre-
sentatives.
e. Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)--all information
and materials requiring special community controls indicating
restricted handling within present and future community intelli-
gence collection programs and their end products. These special
Community controls are formal systems of restricted access estab-
lished 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
a. Unofficial Travel. Persons granted authorization for ac-
cess to certain categories of extremely sensitive information on
foreign intelligence sources or methods of SCI incur a special
security obligation and are to be alerted by their SOIC to risks
associated with unofficial visits to, or travel through, the
countries listed in the Appendix hereto. The SOIC concerned
should advise that unofficial travel in the listed countries
without official approval may result in the withdrawal of ap-
proval for continued access to SCI for persons with specific and
extensive knowledge of the following categories of extremely
sensitive information on foreign intelligence sources or methods:
--Technological structure, function, and techniques of sensi-
tive intelligence collection or exploitation system/methods.
--Designated system targets or sources.
--Method and purpose of target selection.
--Degree of success of collection or exploitation system/
method.
--Collection or exploitation :system/method capabilities and
vulnerabilities.
b. All persons having access to SCI who plan unofficial
travel to or through countries listed in the Appendix. hereto
must:
(1) Give advance notice of such planned travel.
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