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You are required to report the following
to your security or counterintelligence office:
- Any effort by any individual, regardless
of nationality, to obtain illegal or unauthorized access to classified
information or to compromise you or any other cleared employee. In
addition, all contacts by you or any other cleared employee with known
or suspected intelligence officers from any country, or any contact
which suggests that you or any other employee may be the target of the
intelligence service of another country or other clandestine group shall
be reported.1
- Any other known, suspected, attempted, or
planned activity that threatens U.S. national security. This includes
unauthorized release of or access to any classified or otherwise
sensitive information, intrusion into an automated information system
containing classified or otherwise sensitive information, or information
relating to terrorism, sabotage, subversion, or illegal diversion of
U.S. technology to a foreign country.
- Knowledge of any activity by a foreign country
or organization that suggests that country or organization may have
unauthorized knowledge of U.S. national security information, processes
or capabilities. This is called reporting "anomalies"
and is explained further in Reporting
"Anomalies."
Many people who have not been trained in
how intelligence services operate do not recognize when they are being
targeted and assessed. Many trusting individuals do not recognize that a
seemingly innocent request for unclassified information is a common first
step in assessment and development of a potential source.
If you become aware of any intelligence
or terrorist activity against the United States, you should not conduct
your own investigation, should not put yourself in any dangerous situation,
and should not tell family or friends of the incident. Rather, you
should as soon as possible write down as many details as you can remember
and then report it to your security office, the FBI, or by calling
any one of the various Hotline
Numbers established for this purpose.
If you are the target of the activity, you
should not divulge any information and should not take or sign anything. You
should listen carefully, be observant, and remember as many details as possible.
Keep all options open by neither agreeing nor refusing to cooperate. Remain
calm, be noncommittal, ask for time, and report immediately to your security
office.
Your responsibility to report potentially
significant security information concerning a co-worker or other person
with access to classified information is covered in Reporting
Improper, Unreliable or Suspicious Behavior.
If your reporting helps stop a case of
espionage, you may be eligible for a reward of up to $500,000. The reward is
authorized by an amendment to Title 18, U.S.C., Section 3071, which
authorizes the Attorney General to make payment for information on espionage
activity in any country which leads to the arrest and conviction of any
person(s):
- For commission of an act of espionage against
the United States.
- For conspiring or attempting to commit an act
of espionage against the United States
- Or which leads to the prevention or
frustration of an act of espionage against the United States.
If you ever discover what you believe to
be a listening device, it is important that you say or do nothing that would
tip off those who planted the device to the fact that you have discovered
it. React in the following manner:
- Do not say anything to indicate what you have
found or what you suspect the device to be.
- End your conversation as naturally as possible
and leave the area.
- Report promptly to your security officer
without mentioning your suspicions to anyone else.
Reference
1. National Industrial Security
Program Operating Manual, paragraph 1-302. Presidential Decision
Directive NSC-12, Security Awareness and Reporting of Foreign Contacts,
August 5, 1993.
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