A Collection of Five Key National Security and Classified Documents Policy Papers

  Official United States Government Policy Documents
  Actual size is 11-inches x 8.5-inches

Plus Official Cover Sheets for Top Secret, Secret & Confidential Documents
 

• GSA Classified National Security Information Handbook

• US Department of Energy Security Clearances and Badge Access Controls Report

• USCG Management of the Security Program & Classified Information

• US Federal Questionnaire for National Security Positions

• GSA Official Physical Security Lesson Plan

• An official US Government TOP SECRET document cover sheet

• An official US Government SECRET document cover sheet

• An official US Government CONFIDENTIAL document cover sheet

Each of the eight documents included are described below.

This important document describes in details the management and controls of classified materials and national security information.  Its nine chapters explain:

• Classification, declassification, and downgrading
• Document markings
• Safeguarding classified information
• Access and controls
• Receipt and transmission
• Security education and violations
• National Industrial Security Program (NISP)

Security clearances are granted to ensure that only those who have successfully passed a background investigation and have a need to access classified information are actually authorized such access.  Security badges provide the physical evidence that a clearance has been granted, and are used by the Department of Energy to control access to classified information, as well as to Departmental buildings and facilities.

Currently, only about 4,900 badges have been issued to individuals who have security clearance to access classified matter.  This book describes data pertaining to security clearances and badges for individuals, both Federal and contractor, and the systems used to maintain security in the Department of Energy.

The text describes and explains "Q" clearances, which permit access to top secret restricted data, and national security information.  It also covers "L" clearances, which permit access to confidential restricted data, and national security information.

It also examines investigations by the Inspector General showing how unauthorized individuals could gain access to headquarters, and how many former employees left the department without returning their badges.  It explains "concerns regarding the vulnerability of Department facilities, property, classified materials, and the safety of workers."

Can you imagine that some former Department of Energy employees (the Department is fully and exclusively responsible for the nation's nuclear weapons) had badges granting access to Department facilities even though they were no longer employed by the Department or its contractors?  Some of these individuals were "holding Q clearances, which can allow the highest level of access to facilities and information."  "One had been retired for over a year and reported to us that he still had his Q badge."

This hard-to-find government report tells the whole story.
 

To further explain details of the official U.S. National Security Program, we're including the important 73-page book about Classified National Security Information:  "Classified Information Management Program."

This extensive and thick book explains every detail about security classification policy, including:

• Intelligence information
• Classification levels
• Classification guides
• Classifying equipment
• Equivalent foreign security classifications
• Marking classified documents
• Marking information transmitted electronically
• Foreign government information
• Restricted data
• Storage requirements
• Lock combinations
• Restricted areas and classified spaces
• Magnetic/optical media
• Dissemination of classified material
• Reproduction of classified material
• Printing and photographic process, and control of photographic material
• TOP SECRET transmissions
• SECRET transmissions
• CONFIDENTIAL transmissions
• Visits involving access to classified information
• Classified meetings, conferences, and training sessions
• Transmissions to foreign governments
• Hand carrying classified material
• Disclosure to foreign governments, foreign nationals, and international organizations
• Declassification and downgrading
• Freedom of Information act (FOIA) and Privacy Act requests
• Approved destruction methods
• Classified waste
• Emergency destruction and priority for emergency destruction
• Security investigations
• Debriefings in case of unauthorized access

• The Special Access Program (anything requiring additional security protection and handling measures, special clearance procedures, etc)
• Sensitive Compartmented Information (highly sensitive national security information to which access is based on a strict "need-to-know" basis)
• Restricted Data under the Atomic Energy Act

• Identifying security threats and vulnerabilities
• Countermeasures
• Access lists
• Codewords
• Weapons procedures
• Security checks and tests
• Spontaneous reaction and timing
• State of readiness
• Emergency procedures
• Homemade codes
• Security enhancements
• Foreign overflight arrangements
• Restricted airspace/ocean areas
• Search and rescue 
• Sensor capabilities
• Strategy and tactics
• Threat assumptions/intelligence
• Critical timing
• Distinguishing emblems and logos
• Courier services
• Reaction to hostile actions
• Distinguished visitors
• Target damage assessments

• Antenna types and orientation
• Call signs
• Encryption / encoding / authentication systems
• Frequency assignments
• Automatic identifier (Identification Friend or Foe -- IFF) codes
• International communications
• Hostile radio interference
• Flight safety communication
• Radio silence
• Rendezvous beacons
• Personal and unofficial call signs
• Navigation aids / TACAN beacons
• Radar
• Electronic countermeasures
• Fire control radar
• Friendly aircraft tracking
• Target tracking
• Weapons system emission

• Indicators establishing a financial activity profile
• Indicators showing financial activity deviations
• Cargos and shipments
• Ship / vehicle / aircraft capabilities and movements
• Container labels
• Munitions movements
• Personal luggage
• Aircraft tail numbers
• Ship hull numbers
• Camouflage
• Nameplate data
• Operational aircraft flight profiles
• Low/high altitude operations
• Specialized aircraft
• Personal affairs indicators establishing profiles, including:
• Apparel
• Immunization records
• Laundry services and newspaper deliveries
• Passports
• Personal plans, routines, vehicles, and equipment
• Car rentals, motel reservations, personal luggage, use of commercial transportation
• Medical and dental care routines
• Name tags
• Duty schedules and travel reservations
• Small arms possession, etc etc

The process of obtaining a security clearance is quite involved and comprehensive, involving background investigations and other national security risk checks.  The whole process--for everyone from atomic weapon workers to CIA spies--begins with this standard application form.

It's 11-pages long, and includes details about the investigative process, personal interviews, and specific questions that must be answered for all national security positions.   The questionnaire covers all of the usual bases, plus queries about your spouse (and any former spouses), your relatives and associates, military history, foreign activities, foreign countries you've visited, medical record, police record, use of illegal drugs ("and drug activity"), use of alcohol, financial record and delinquencies, public record civil court actions, association records, and much, much more. 

This key document is a very interesting--and educational--read, in and of itself.
 

This 16-page document reviews the elements and requirements for physical security for storage of classified information, including:

• Security containers and filing cabinets
• Combination locks and combinations
• Documents for security containers and lock combinations
• End-of-day security checks
• Cover sheets
• Physical security
• Lock and key control
• Emergency evacuation and destruction priorities and procedures
• A practice exercise

We're including the three most important official classified document cover sheets, as well:

Official US Government TOP SECRET document cover sheet

Official US Government SECRET document cover sheet

Official US Government CONFIDENTIAL document cover sheet

And, as a "bonus," we're including three unique non-official coversheets to use with your own less-than-secret documents -- perfect prank material for the practical joker!
 

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