What is this clearance document?
A directory of the forms and notices that appear in a security clearance case. Search by form number or by a phrase from the page in front of you. Each entry says what the document is, whether it is something you normally see, and where the description comes from.
Many of these are routine processing notices between agencies rather than decisions about you. For the correspondence in a contested case — the interrogatory, the Statement of Reasons, the hearing notice, the decision and the appeal — see correspondence in a DOHA case, which covers those in more depth.
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Access agreements and briefings
What is signed once eligibility exists, and what is signed on the way out.
You normally see or sign this. · Edition 06/01/2000
The certification signed on gaining cryptographic access, and completed again on termination of that access.
What you do: Sign it when cryptographic access is granted, and again when it ends.
Also called: SD-572, SD572, crypto access, cryptographic access
Source: WHS — DoD Forms Management Program — DoD forms page gives form number SD 572, title, and edition date 06/01/2000.
You normally see or sign this.
The briefing given before access to NATO classified information, with a signed certificate acknowledging the responsibilities. There is no single government-wide form number; the certificate is locally produced.
What you do: Attend the briefing and sign the certificate. A matching debriefing certificate is signed when the access ends.
Also called: NATO briefing, NATO certificate, COSMIC, ATOMAL
Full entry for NATO Security Briefing and Certificate
Source: 32 CFR 117.19 (NISPOM) — NISPOM requires employees to "sign a certificate stating that they have been briefed or debriefed" and sets retention periods.
You normally see or sign this.
The briefing required before access to Critical Nuclear Weapons Design Information. The signed acknowledgment block is headed "Security Briefing Certificate". There is no form number; access is annotated in the security database.
What you do: Attend the briefing and sign the acknowledgment. An oral debriefing follows when access ends.
Also called: CNWDI, critical nuclear weapons design information, restricted data briefing
Full entry for CNWDI Briefing and Security Briefing Certificate
Source: 32 CFR 117.20 (NISPOM) — NISPOM mandates the briefing and debriefing; DCSA’s published CNWDI briefing carries the "Security Briefing Certificate" acknowledgment.
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Each entry was checked against the issuing agency’s own published source, and documents that could not be verified against an official source are deliberately not listed. Descriptive research on published procedures. Not legal advice, and not a prediction about any pending case.