Greetings,
I was thinking about this particular situation today and wanted to see
what people's reactions and experiences have been about this. Here's
an email to one of the office bosses from me:
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Purely hypothetically, what if someone who had a security clearance
found a way to travel to Cuba, say, via a third country such as
Canada? I know you have to report the trip to the Gov. so they can
have a record of your travels, but would you automatically lose your
clearance since Cuba is on a list of no-no countries?
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To which I received the following reply:
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I'm not sure if it would be automatic, but it would be likely. Even
though it is possible to do, following that kind of plan to find a way
around the law would demonstrate the type of poor judgement that tends
to make security wonks nervous and gets you removed from the list of
trusted people. Aside from the security clearance, you would probably
get fired too based on exposing the company to risk and investigation.
Short version. Do NOT consider this!
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I thought it quite interesting. Though I'm not *really* surprised at
the answer, it just kind of exposes the paranoia, fear, and outright
retardation of people who make rules like this. I guess I'll never
being traveling to Cuba as long as I'm part of the US offense
industry.
Mike
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