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Mr. Boyer mentioned that there are 9 or 10 categories of sensitivity,
‘the most sensitive being stockpile and production figures.
It is expected
that the Civil Service investigations will step higher and higher into these
areas,
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Captain Waters emphasized the fact that P security approval is not a
P Approval
security clearance, but is rather an administrative precaution.
granted by the Manager of Operations, directly or after consultation with
the local FBI,
Normally, a central file check is made by the FBI,
There is
no minimum requirement for P approval.
The Chairman inquired about "grades of Q Clearance",
Grades of that a Q clearance does not say "the doo rs are wide open",
Clearance
Mr. Boyer replied
It is the policy
to compartmentalize information, in particular stockpile, production, and
thermonuclear information,
Access to the compartments is based on need to
know and is not a degree of clearance.
When access is to be extended to
more sensitive areas-the files are rechecked for derogatory information.
The Chairman asked what happens when a mistake is found in some
‘istakes derogatory item in the files, e.g. a mistake of identity.
Captain Waters
in Security
replied that it would be taken up with the FBI, who would undertake a
Files
verification and then correct their own records.
The derogatory misinforma-
tion is not removed from the file, but the record would show the correction.
A statement of the AEC's evaluation of a case is placed in the AEC file,
but does not in general go to the FBI file.
Hence no mschanism operates
automatically for informing a new employer (another agency, such as the DOD)
that a person has been granted clearance by the Commission.
In this sense
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the files are incomplete.
Mr. Hammack said that if there were derogatory
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