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REPORTING  HOSTILE  CONTACTS  AND  SECURITY  AWARENESS 
In  addition  to  measures  presently  in  place  to  provide  for 
physical/  information  and  personnel  security  against  the 
hostile  intelligence  threat,  the  provisions  of  this  directive 
will  enhance  overall  government  efforts  to  protect  against 
illegal  or  unauthorized  acquisition  by  hostile  intelligence 
services  of  information  and  technology  vital  to  our  national 
interest. 
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Many  agencies,  particularly  those  directly  involved  in  the 
United  States  intelligence  effort,  foreign  affairs  and  military 
matters,  have  well-developed  programs  designed  to  maintain  a 
high  level  of  security  awareness  and  to  examine  relationships 
of  their  employees  with  foreign  nationals •   Agencies  whose 
primary  mission  requires  that  they  maintain  classified  or 
otherwise  sensitive  information,  while  attractive  targets  for 
hostile  foreign  interests,  are  by  no  means  the  only  agencies 
which  are  vulnerable  to  the  loss  of  information  or  technology 
which  may  be  critical  to  the  ability  of  the  united  States  to 
protect  itself. 
Responsibility  for  Security 
Each  department  or  agency  of  the  US  Government  shall  establish 
procedures  which  will; 
Create  and  maintain  a  formalized  security  awareness 
program  designed  to  ensure  a  high  level  of  awareness  among  its 
employees  of  the  potential  threat  to  its  propriety,  sensitive 
and  classified  information  from  foreign  sources,  whether  overt 
or  covert.   This  program  must  include  a  periodic  formal  brief- 
ing of  the  threat  posed  by  hostile  intelligence  services. 
Provide  for  the  reporting,  under  defined  circum- 
stances, of  employee  contacts  with  nationals  of  certain  foreign 
countries  or  political  entities  as  hereafter  specified. 
The  nature  and  extent  of  this  program  will  be  commensurate  with 
the  potential  for  foreign  interest  in  not  only  the  classified 
information  holdings  of  the  department  or  agency,  but  also  in 
its  technological  or  other  sensitive  activities.   The  program 
should  be  tailored  to  meet  the  particular  functions  of  the 
agency  or  department  and  the  vulnerability  of  certain  categories 
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Reporting  of  Hostile  Contacts 
Each  department  or  z?ency   shall  establish  procedures  which 
require  its  employees  to  report  certain  contacts. 
Illegal  or  unauthorized  access  is  sought  to 
classified  or  otherwise  sensitive  information. 
The  employee  is  concerned  that  he  or  she  may  be 
the  -target  of  an  attempted  exploitation  by  a  foreign  entity. 
The  procedures  will  also  require  reporting  of  any 
contacts  with  nationals  of  the  Soviet  Union  and  Soviet  Bloc 
countries  as  well  as  other  SDecific  foreian  countries  or 
foreign  political  entities,  which  are  determined  by  the  depart- 
ment or  agency  in  coordination  with  the  Federal  Bureau  of 
Investigation  as  being  of  particular  relevance  to  its  security 
concerns.   In  implementing  this  procedure,  the  security  officer 
or  designated  official  of  the  department  or  agency  will  review 
and  evaluate  the  reported  information  in  accordance  with  the 
standards  for  reporting.   The  designation  of  particular  coun- 
tries as  being  of  greater  concern  will  provide  a  basis  for  the 
security  officer  or  designated  official  to  judge  the  relative 
importance  of  a  particular  contact.   Any  facts  or  circumstances 
of  a  reported  contact  with  a  hostile  country  which  appear  to 
(1)  indicate  an  attempt  or  intention  to  obtain  unauthorized 
access  to  proprietary ,  sensitive  and  classified  information, 
(2)  which  appear  to  offer  a  reasonable  potential  for  such,  or 
(3)  indicate  the  possibility  of  continued  professional  or 
personal  contacts,  shall  be  reported  promptly  by  the  respon- 
sible department  or  agency  to  the  F3I  in  the  case  of  employees 
located  in  the  United  States  and  to  the  Central  Intelligence 
Agency  (CIA)  in  the  case  of  employees  located  overseas.   The 
CIA  in  turn  will  inform  the  FBI  as  appropriate. 
Other  Intelligence  or  Investigative  Interests 
Nothing  in  this  directive  is  intended  to  modify  the  authority 
and  responsibility  of  the  Director  of  Central  Intelligence  or 
the  Central  Intelligence  Agency  for  counterintelligence  abroad, 
nor  does  it  in  any  way  change  existing  procedures  or  agreements 
between  CIA  and  the  Department  of  State  and  other  U.S.  agencies 
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to  classified  or  sensitive  information  or  technology,  invice  3 
targeting  or  exploitation  by  foreign  intelligence  services.  o 
The  program  should  be  designed  so  as    net  to  intrude  into  the  ° 
privacy  of  employees  or  into  their  freedom  of  association.  o 
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These  procedures  will  require  reporting  of  all  * 
contacts  with  individuals  of  any  nationality,  either  within  or 
outside  the  scope  of  the  employee's  official  activities,  in 
which: 
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regarding  the  reporting  of  hostile  contacts  outside  the  L'.S. 
Neither  does  it  preclude  interagency  agreements  or  directives 
affecting  the  relationship  between  the  F3I  and  ether  intelli- 
gence or  investigative  agencies  regarding  their  responsibility 
for  personnel,  physical  or  document  security  or  their  terri- 
torial jurisdiction. 
Review  of  Procedures 
The  head  of  each  agency  or  department  will  provide  a  copy  of 
its  Security  Awareness  program  and  its  procedures  for  reporting 
hostile  contacts  to  the  Assistant  to  the  President  for  National 
Security  Affairs  for  review  by  December  1,  1985. 
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