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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
UNCLASSIFIED
National Security Decision
Directive Number 197
November 1, 1985
REPORTING HOSTILE CONTACTS AND SECURITY AWARENESS
In addition to measures presently in place to provide for
hostile intelligence threat, the provisions of this directive
physical, information and personnel security against the
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.
Many agencies, particularly those directly involved in the
United States intelligence effort, foreign affairs and military
matters, have vell-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 sensitive among its
employees of the potential threat to its propriety,
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 in
information holdings of the department or agency, but also
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
Released en
4-31-93
UNCLASSIFIED
under provisions of E 0. 12356
by S. Tilley, National Security curri
(F86-163)
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