CHAPTER 1 GENERAL INFORMATION

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• Publication Date: June 26, 1987
• Content Type: REPORT

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Chapter 1
GENERAL
Section A?General Requirements
1-1. Cross-References:
a. DOD 5200.2-R, DOD Personnel Security
Program (USDP).
b. DOD 5200.1-R/AFR 205-1, Information
Security Program.
c. DOD 5220.22-R/AFR 205-4, Air Force
112 Participation in the DOD Industrial Security
Regulation.
d. Executive Order 10450, Security Require-
ments for Government Employment.
e. AFR 35-99, Nuclear Weapons Personnel
Reliability Program (PA).
f. AFR 40-7, volume I, Nonappropriated
Funds Personnel (NAF) Management and Ad-
ministration Standardized Position Description
(SPD) and Classification Standard Use.
g. AFR 125-37, The Resources Protection
Program (PA).
h. AFR 205-25, (S) Safeguarding the Single
Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP)(U).
i. AFR 205-43, (C) Safeguarding NATO
Classified Information (U).
j. AFR 207-1, (C) The Air Force Physical
Security Program (PA) (U).
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NOTE: For additional guidance refer to attach-
ments 1 through 11.
1-2. Applicability of This Regulation:
a. This regulation implements the Air Force
Personnel Security Program (PSP) and takes
precedence over all other departmental issuances
affecting the PSP.
b. Only the investigatory provisions apply to
contractor personnel. However, thecunfavurable,?
cadministratiN e atTion provisions of-diajater_ 8,
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cpar.tmented--Information-ISCITC1earance proce-
dures Pertaining to contractor personnel are in
DOD 5220.22-R/AFR 205-4. The Air Force
does not grant security clearances to contractor
personnel.
c. This regulation also applies to:
(1) Air Force military members or appli-
cants, including Air National Guard (ANG) and
US Air Force Reserve (USAFR) personnel.
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(2) Civilian employees of the Air Force,
including applicants for employment, who are:
(a) Compensated from appropriate or
nonappropriated funds.
(b) Hired on a per diem basis.
(c) Serving in an advisory capacity on a
permanent, temporary, or part-time basis, even
though they are not compensated for their
services.
(d) Immigrant alien and non-US national
personnel affiliated with the Air Force.
(e) Persons selected for duties involving
the education and orientation of Air Force
personnel. It does not usually apply to persons
hired to teach off-duty educational courses. See
AFR 213-1 for overseas area program require-
ments.
(f) Contractor personnel requiring
unescorted entry to restricted areas containing
Priority A, B, or C resources.
(g) Contract maintenance personnel per-
forming Presidential Support duties.
(h) Individuals performing sensitive du-
ties not covered above; refer to paragraph 3-9
for investigation request procedures.
d. Under combat conditions or other military
exigencies, the Secretary of the Air Force (SAF)
may waive provisions of this regulation as the
circumstances warrant, even though some of the
provisions may be DOD policies.
1-3. Personnel Security Program Authority.
Headquarters Air Force Office of Security
Police, Directorate of Information Security, HQ
AFOSP/SP1, located at Kirtland AFB NM
87117-6001 administers the Personnel Security
Program.
1-49 Personnel Security Program Policies. Only
US citizens may be assigned to sensitive duties
or granted access to classified information.
Non-US citizens ma not be assigned to sensitive
duties, granted a personnel security clearance, or
granted access to classified information. SAF or
designees may authorize an exception in rare
instances when a non-US citizen has special
expertise which serves the national interest.
Non-US citizens may be employed in the
competitive service in sensitive civilian positions
only after specific approval by the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM). Exceptions to
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these requirements
are permitted only for
compelling national security reasons.
Section B?Criteria for Application of Security
Standards
1-5. Clearance and Sensitive Position Standard.
This is the personnel security standard which
must be applied to determine a person's
eligibility for access to classified information.
Both access to classified information and
assignment to sensitive duties must be based on
whether the person's loyalty, reliability, and
trustworthiness are clearly consistent with the
interests of national security. Requests for
security clearances must be limited to those
absolutely required for mission accomplishment.
1-6. Military Service Standard. The personnel
security standard to apply in determining
whether a person is suitable for appointment,
enlistment, induction, or retention in the Air
Force is based on national security criteria. The
absence of reasonable doubt concerning a
person's loyalty to the US Government is
included in this criteria. However, the ultimate
determination must be an overall common sense
judgment based on all available information.
Determinations must reflect the rationale of
those guidelines in paragraph 1-7. The Air
Force Security Clearance Office (AFSCO) is the
only Air Force agency authorized to initiate
discharge actions for security reasons.
a. Separation Under Other Regulations or
Directives. Discharge actions may not be pro-
cessed under this chapter until the procedures in
either the AF 35-, 36-, or 39-series regulations
or those in the Uniform Code of Military
Justice have been determined inappropriate.
b. Denial of Appointment or Enlistment.
Directives in the AF 35-, 36-, and 39-series
contain procedures for processing cases for
determinations of either denial or initial ap-
pointment or of enlistment in the Air Force in
the interests of national security.
1-7. Criteria for Application of Security Stan-
dards. The ultimate decision in applying either
of the security standards in paragraphs 1-5 and
1-6 must be an overall common sense determi-
nation based on all available facts. The criteria
for determining eligibility for a clearance under
the security standard will be based on, but not
limited to the following:
a. Commission of any act of sabotage,
espionage, treason, terrorism, anarchy, sedition, ?
or attempts thereat or preparation therefor, or
conspiring with or aiding or abetting another to
commit or attempt to commit any such act.
b. Establishing or continuing a sympathetic
association with a saboteur, spy, traitor,
seditionist, anarchist, terrorist, or revolutionist,
or with an espionage or other secret agent or
representative of a foreign nation whose inter-
ests are inimical to the interests of the United
States, or with any person who advocates the
use of force or violence to overthrow the
Government of the United States or alter the
form of Government of the United States by
unconstitutional means.
c. Advocacy of use of force or violence to
overthrow the Government of the United States
or to alter the form of Government of the
United States by unconstitutional means.
d. Knowing membership with the specific
intent of furthering the aims of, or adherence to
and active participation in, any foreign or
domestic organization, association, movement,
group, or combination of persons (hereafter
referred to as organizations) which unlawfully
advocates or practices the commission of acts of
force or violence to prevent others from
exercising their rights under the Constitution or
laws of the United States or of any state which
seeks to overthrow the Government of the US
or any state or subdivision thereof by unlawful
means.
e. Unauthorized disclosure to any person of
classified information, or of other information,
the disclosure of which is prohibited by statute,
Executive Order, or regulation.
f. Performing or attempting to perform one's
duties, or commission of acts which serve or
which could be expected to serve the interests of
another government in preference to the inter-
ests of the United States.
g. Disregard of public law, statutes, Executive
orders, or regulations including violation of
security regulations or practices.
h. Criminal or dishonest conduct.
i. Acts of omission or commission which
indicate poor judgment, unreliability, or
untrustworthiness.
j. Any behavior or illness, including any
mental condition which, in the opinion of
competent medical authority (clinical psycholo-
gist or board eligible or board certified psychia-
trist), may cause significant defects in judgment
or reliability with due regard to the transient or
continuing effect of the illness and the medical
findings in such cases.
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k. Vulnerability to coercion, influence, or
pressure that may cause conduct contrary to the
national interest. This may be (1) the presence
of immediate family members or other persons
to whom the applicant is bonded by affection or
obligation in a nation (or areas under its
domination) whose interests may be inimical to
those of the United States, or (2) any other
circumstances which could cause the applicant to
be vulnerable.
I. Excessive indebtedness, recurring financial
difficulties, or unexplained affluence.
m. Habitual or episodic use of intoxicants to
excess.
n. Illegal or improper use, possession, trans-
fer, sale, or addiction to any controlled or
psychoactive substance, narcotics, cannabis or
other dangerous drug.
o. Any knowing and willful falsification,
cover-up, concealment, misrepresentation, or
omission of a material fact from any written or
oral statement, document, form, or other
representation or device used by the Air Force,
Department of Defense, or any other federal
agency.
p. Failing or refusing to answer or to
authorize others to answer questions or provide
information required by a congressional commit-
tee, court, or agency in the course of an official
inquiry whenever such answers or information
concern relevant and material matters pertinent
to an evaluation of the individual's trustworthi-
ness, reliability, and judgment.
q. Acts of sexual misconduct, or perversion
indicative of moral turpitude, poor judgment, or
lack of regard for the laws of society.
1-8. Security Acceptability of Civilian Employ-
ees. AFSCO personnel use AFR 40-732, Civilian
Personnel Security Program, to determine the
security acceptability of nonacceptability of
civilian employees and applicants for assignment
or appointment to, or retention in, sensitive
positions. AFSCO personnel may concurrently
deny or revoke security clearance eligibility or
unescorted entry to restricted areas. AFSCO
personnel do not make a security clearance
eligibility determination on civilian employees in
nonsensitive positions.
Section C?Responsibilities Assigned
1-9. HQ AFOSP Responsibilities. HQ
AFOSP 'SP1, Kirtland AFB NM 87117-6001
formulates, interprets and disseminates person-
nel security policy and ensures:
a. The PSP is administered within the Air
Force in a manner consistent with this regula-
tion and DOD policies and procedures.
b. A single authority within the office of the
SAF administers the Air Force program. This
single authority is the Administrative Assistant
to the SAF (SAF/AA).
c. Data is maintained to identify annually:
(1) The number of personnel involved,
part-time and full-time, adjudicating personnel
security cases;
(2) The number of man-years expended in
adjudicating personnel security cases;
(3) The number and level of personnel
security clearances issued;
(4) The number of positions designated
sensitive, by designation criteria; and
(5) The number of adverse personnel secu-
rity determinations, by category.
1-10. AFSCO Responsibilities. AFSCO is the
Air- Force.centralind adjudicative authority for
granting security clearance eligibility, run
or denying clearance eligibility, the Office of
Primary Responsibility (OFR) for the Presiden-
tial Support Program and Automated Security
Clearance Approval System (ASCAS) informa-
tion.
1-11. Major Command (MAJCOM), Separate
Operating Agency (SOA), and Direct Reporting
Unit (DRU) Responsibilities. MAJCOMs, SOAs
and DRUs are the primary points of contact
between HQ AFOSP and individual bases.
Responsibilities of the SPI function include:
a. Identifying command-unique requirements
and standardizing command procedures to meet
those requirements, where possible.
b. Ensuring training of base authorized re-
questers of personnel security investigations in
PSP requirements and procedures.
c. Ensuring supplements to the PSP published
by subordinate activities do not conflict with Air
Force and command policies.
d. Monitoring the PSP of subordinate activi-
ties to determine the:
(1) Quality of personnel security investiga-
tion requests;
(2) Methods of establishing and processing
Special Security Files (SSF); and
(3) Adequacy and timeliness of responses to
requests from Defense Investigative Service
(DIS) and AFSCO requests for additional
information when a case is being processed.
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e. Coordinating with the MAJCOM or SOA
Director of Personnel for observance of PSP
requirements when hiring Department of Air
Force (DAF) federal civilian personnel, and
encouraging coordination between subordinate
activities and their civilian personnel counter-
parts.
f. Conducting annual program reviews of the
PSP at their installations and DRUs. PSP
program officials must thoroughly examine the
PSP during this review. These reviews are
normally conducted in conjunction with the
Information Security Program review required
by DOD 5200.l-R/AFR 205-1.
g. Ensuring subordinate chiefs of security
police conduct annual program reviews at the
activities they service. In addition to an
examination of the PSP, base program review
officials must examine the PSP aspects of the
civilian personnel program to include hiring and
placement procedures.
h. Publishing command supplements to iden-
tify and provide guidance for unique command
program requirements or needs in accordance
with APR 5-1. They must also:
(1) Forward one copy of each final
MAJCOM or SOA supplement to HQ
AFOSP/SPIA, Kirtland AFB NM 87117-6001.
(2) Send one final copy of each implement-
ing directive issued below command level to the
parent command SPI office.
(3) Process proposed supplements which
affect any function of an active duty consoli-
dated base personnel office (CBPO), an Air
Reserve force CBPO, or consolidated reserve
personnel office (CRPO) through the CBPO
management division to HQ AFMPC/MPCY-
COE for evaluation, then to HQ AFOSP/SPIA,
Kirtland AFB NM 87117-6001, for final issu-
ance approval.
(4) Process proposed supplements which
affect any function of the central civilian
personnel office (CCPO) through the CCP() and
the MAJCOM/DPC, to HQ USAF/DPCE for
evaluation, then to HQ AFOSP/SPIA for final
issuance approval.
NOTE: HQ AFOSP/SPI coordination ,is re-
quired to ensure DPC or DPCE suggested
changes to the supplement do not detract from
the intent of the supplemental program.
1-12. HQ USAF/1NSB Responsibilities. HQ
USAF/INSB adjudicates requests and deter-
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mines individual eligibility for SCI access by Air
Force personnel. Detailed SCI program manage-
ment guidelines are contained in USAFINTEL
201-1 with an SCI program overview in AFR
200-7, Sensitive Compartmented Information
(SC!) Security System.
1-13.131efet-iiEaffiTtstitativt-T?S-ervit-e-iind Air
Force Interface?Respothe DIS pro-
vides a single, centrally directed personnel
security investigative service which conducts
personnel security investigations within the 50
states, District of Columbia, and Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico for DOD components,
except as provided for in DOD Directive
5100.23, Administrative Arrangements for the
National Security Agency (copies available
through normal publishing channels). The DIS
requests the military departments to accomplish
its investigative requirements in other_geographi-
cal areas. lx?j-i-3_c-omponent
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conduct personnel security_mvestigations unless
lpecificararize-d?by-Thseput y r
Secretary-of-Defen?s-E--for Policy Review"-
a. The-Air-Forte?ciiii-cTa Special Investiga-
tions (AFOSI), other military department inves-
tigative agencies, and the Department of State
support the DIS by conducting personnel
security investigations for the DIS outside the
above areas, when requested. Command cooper-
ation with the DIS is necessary to ensure Air
Force investigative requirements are met.
b. HQ AFOSP/SPI is the Air Force point of
contact with DIS on policy matters.
c. j-he.7AFSCO=is-'::th-e-zpoint=ofzcontact-_--.for
cprocessing=personnel?security?investigations,
tracersr=cancellations-r-adverse?action?reports,
recording security clearance data in the Defense'
Central Index of Investigations, and for trans-
mitting security clearance data through com-
puter systems for the ASCAS.
d. Air Force units may communicate directly
with DIS only in making routine requests for
personnel security investigations and Privacy
and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
requests. Direct other communications to HQ
AFOSP/SPI, Kirtland AFB NM 87117-6001
through command channels, or to the AFSCO
as indicated above.
NOTE. These policies do not apply to inquiries
from AFOSI to DIS when the subject of the
inquiry is other than a personnel security issue.
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