Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!wanginst!ucadmus!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!ron@BRL-TGR From: Ron NatalieNewsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: background investigations Message-ID: <7310@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 13:36:40 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7310 Posted: Mon Jan 14 13:36:40 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 00:46:11 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 19 > a) (Presuming you're hiring someone for a full-time position, since they're > most likely the sensitive ones:) Security clearances DO NOT follow you. > I mean that once you quit from one sensitive job, no matter whether it's due > to "firing," "moving to a better job," or whatever, your security clearance > is immediately cancelled, and you're debriefed (talk about the Federal Laws > about secrecy that still apply, etc.). Ergo, you're not hiring someone who > already has a "clearance"; you're hiring someone who HAD a clearance. Wrongo. Security clearances don't follow you, but they can be retrieved. You have 6 months to transfer a secret. I went from being employed by the Army, to be a contracter for the Army by a University, to being a contractor for another government agency by an Aerospace company, back to working for the Army without ever filling out new security clearance forms. You just fill out a one page "transfer" application. Of course, higher clearances don't work this way, but once you've had an extensive background investigation, subsequent ones may come easier. -Ron "Super Spook" Natalie