> >concerned.  The conferring of a "Secret" clearance is a very
> >jealously-guarded govt. prerogative.  Often a clearance from one
> branch of
> >the govt will not be accepted by another branch of the same govt.
>
> I was telling him offline that having a prior clearance will
> usually extend the
> process.
>
> I had a guy I worked with, a MSEE, who had a
> (TS+compartmental+cryto) clearance
> in Korea when he was in charge of communications at one of our bases.
>
> When he got a civilian job, it took over a year for them to clear him to a
> Secret _because_ of his prior stuff.
>
> Whoda thunk!?!
>
> Andy
>

I had a "secret" clearance for crypto equipment while I was in the US Navy
in the late 60's & early 70's so I thought I wouldn't have any problem at
all getting a clearance as a civilian in 74.  WRONG.  The FBI did a thorough
check on me and my wife.  Then I spent many happy hours in interviews with
DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) investigators discussing my Japanese wife,
the time I went AWOL in Hong Kong (too close to Communist China), some silly
stunts I'd pulled in Saigon, and a general tendency towards being young,
wild, and stupid.  Fortunately, for the two years after I had gotten
married, my only crime was being young.  After hearing the list of my dumb
stunts that they were aware of, I wouldn't have blamed them if I hadn't
gotten a clearance. But apparently young wild and stupid are frequently
redundant, and I was a little older so I got a clearance.


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