Opinion ID: 2448
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Ms. Wilson's Secrecy Agreement with the CIA

Text: When Valerie Wilson joined the CIA, she signed a standard form Secrecy Agreement in which she agreed never [to] disclose in any form or any manner information or materials obtained in the course of her employment with the CIA (1) that are classified pursuant to Executive Order, or (2) which reveal information, classifiable pursuant to Executive Order. CIA Form Secrecy Agreement ¶ 3. The form Agreement placed the burden upon Ms. Wilson to determine whether information or materials in her control were classified or classifiable, as well as to ascertain whom the CIA had authorized to receive such information or materials. See id. ¶ 4. In the Agreement, Ms. Wilson also promised as follows: I hereby agree to submit for review by the [CIA] all information or materials including works of fiction which contain any mention of intelligence data or activities, or contain data which may be based upon information classified pursuant to Executive Order, which I contemplate disclosing publicly or which I have actually prepared for public disclosure, either during my employment or other service with the [CIA] or at any time thereafter, prior to discussing it with or showing it to anyone who is not authorized to have access to it. I further agree that I will not take any steps toward public disclosure until I have received written permission to do so from the [CIA]. Id. ¶ 5. The Agreement explained that the purpose of the pre-publication review process is to give the [CIA] an opportunity to determine whether the information or materials which [Ms. Wilson] contemplate[d] disclosing publicly contain any information which [she] ha[d] agreed not to disclose. Id. ¶ 6. Ms. Wilson indicated that she understood and accepted that the conditions and obligations set forth in the agreement applied both during [her] employment ... and at all times thereafter. Id. ¶ 18.