The Secret History of UK Security Vetting from 1909 to the Present
Anyone who has endured national security-related vetting such as the American Single Scope
Background Investigation (SSBI) or the British Developed Vetting (DV) process knows the particular dread of sitting across from a security officer who asks, in a tone calibrated to seem casual, about your finances, your relationships, and whether there is anything in your life that might make you vulnerable to compromise.... As every cleared intelligence professional knows, your security officer will eventually ask: “Is there anything else you think we should know?” In the case of UK security vetting there is quite a lot, as it turns out. Daniel Lomas has spent a lot of time considering this process, and the result is the first comprehensive history of British security vetting.