Security Investigations
Jesse Orlansky · 2019
This chapter with the procedures used to grant access to classified information and not with whether an individual should be employed. All governments seek protection against subversion and espionage and desire key personnel who are trustworthy and reliable. Considerable reliance will also be placed upon intelligence operations, counterespionage, safes, burglar alarms, and armed guards. The rules and regulations used to administer the security programs of government departments and agencies may not be widely known, although they are publicly available in many Security Manuals and Directives as well as in the excellent Government Security and Loyalty , a looseleaf manual which is brought up to date each month. The fundamental basis for security programs is the inherent right of a country to protect itself. “Security” relates to the protection of the nation and, in practical terms, requires a judgment that access of a particular individual to sensitive information may permit him to influence policy against the interests of his own country.