Which of the following must be reported to the defense counterintelligence and security Agency and the FBI?
The following must be reported to the defense counterintelligence and security Agency and the FBI: Close and continuing associations with foreign nationals, [ Contact with an individual who is known or suspected of being associated with a foreign intelligence or security organization, and Attempts to obtain classified or sensitive information by an individual not authorized to receive such information. ]
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rity. They also include sensitive ligence program to the security
In August 1988, as another
economic information and propriecountermeasures employed by de
step designed to increase espio- tary technologies of America's prifense contractors. Under this pro
nage awareness, the Industrial Se- vate sector. These technologies may gram, FBI resources are focused on curity Awareness Council (ISAC)
never be classified, but their loss the spys' targets-U.S. employees was formed. ISAC is a joint Gov
could have a negative impact on with access to classified informa- ernment/private sector working
ernment/private sector working those companies who developed tion—not on the intelligence officer
group whose membership includes them. A loss in the private sector, or the diplomatic establishment.
the Defense Investigative Service if significant enough to threaten The DECA Program operates (DIS), the FBI, and 11 defense a company's survival, could also in all 56 FBI Field Offices. In each contractors.
endanger national security. office, a DECA coordinator admini- ISAC's goal is to promote
The successes achieved by sters the program. The coordinator's security awareness in the defense Soviet and other foreign intelligence primary responsibility is to visit firms industry by focusing on the collec- services during the 1980s serve to that have been awarded classified tive resources of industry and gov- reinforce the fact that counterintellicontracts to update them on current ernment. Its members share aware- gence is a strategic issue that reforeign intelligence threats.
ness resources, thereby reducing quires a coordinated, effective naBecause of the dramatic in
tional response. Because the world crease in the threat posed by foreign
is so complex and is in a constant intelligence services, the focus of 66
state of flux, the FBI must be able the DECA Program has been ex
...DECA
to articulate clearly this evolving panded to now include American
intelligence threat and work with firms not engaged in classified gov
coordinators are America's private sector to meet ernment contracts and the public in now providing today's counterintelligence chalgeneral. Also, with the increase in espionage briefings lenges successfully. LEB exchange programs among Soviet
to...local police and East European governments departments. and U.S. Government agencies and
David Remnick, The Washington Post, local law enforcement agencies,
99 June 13, 1989, p. A 1.
- Ibid. DECA coordinators are now pro
Nicholas Daniloff, "Reforms In Soviet viding espionage briefings to other needless duplication of efforts that
Union Only Increase Appetites For Secrets
From The West,” Los Angeles Times, August 9, Federal agencies and local police occur when companies operate 1989. departments. alone, without coordination and co
+ Hughes Aircraft Company, A Counterintel
ligence Awareness Primer, 1987, p. 5. At the beginning of 1990, the operation. This concept has since Hughes Aircraft Company and the FBI FBI appointed a national DECA been expanded by DIS and the FBI
jointly produced a video entitled “Espionage
2000." This 30-minute video contains coordinator (NDC) to manage the to other regions of the country and interviews of experts in the counterintelligence program throughout the country. A plans are in progress to make it a
and security countermeasures fields discussing
important awareness issues. It is available to short time later, a national DECA national organization.
any government agency or defense contractor advisory committee was organized.
for use in espionage awareness programs by
contacting the FBI, the Defense Investigative This committee, composed of DECA Conclusion
Service, or the Hughes Aircraft Company. coordinators from the larger FBI field The United States continues to
6 The 11 defense contractors are Aerospace
Corporation, Hughes Aircraft Company, Jet offices, assists the NDC with the have secrets that some foreign pow- Propulsion Laboratory, Lockheed Aeronautical ulation and implementation of ers seek and are willing to steal.
Systems Company, Logicon, McDonnell
Douglas Corporation, Northrop Corporation, DECA goals, training, slides, vid- These secrets go beyond the strate- Rockwell International Corporation, Science eos, and literature. gic military and technological infor
Applications International, Trident Data Corporation, and TRW.