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[CITE: 50USC832]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                      CHAPTER 23--INTERNAL SECURITY
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PERSONNEL SECURITY PROCEDURES IN NATIONAL SECURITY 
                                 AGENCY
 
Sec. 832. Full field investigation and appraisal


(a) Conditional employment; other current security clearance; 
        circumstances authorizing employment on temporary basis

    No person shall be employed in, or detailed or assigned to, the 
Agency unless he has been the subject of a full field investigation in 
connection with such employment, detail, or assignment, and is cleared 
for access to classified information in accordance with the provisions 
of this subchapter; excepting that conditional employment without access 
to sensitive cryptologic information or material may be tendered any 
applicant, under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, 
pending the completion of such full field investigation: And provided 
further, That such full field investigation at the discretion of the 
Secretary need not be required in the case of persons assigned or 
detailed to the Agency who have a current security clearance for access 
to sensitive cryptologic information under equivalent standards of 
investigation and clearance. During any period of war declared by the 
Congress, or during any period when the Secretary determines that a 
national disaster exists, or in exceptional cases in which the Secretary 
(or his designee for such purpose) makes a determination in writing that 
his action is necessary or advisable in the national interest, he may 
authorize the employment of any person in, or the detail or assignment 
of any person to, the Agency, and may grant to any such person access to 
classified information, on a temporary basis, pending the completion of 
the full field investigation and the clearance for access to classified 
information required by this subsection, if the Secretary determines 
that such action is clearly consistent with the national security.

(b) Boards of appraisal; establishment; membership; appointment; 
        appraisal in doubtful cases; report and recommendation; 
        qualifications of members; Secretary's clearance contrary to 
        board's recommendation

    To assist the Secretary and the Director of the Agency in carrying 
out their personnel security responsibilities, one or more boards of 
appraisal of three members each, to be appointed by the Director of the 
Agency, shall be established in the Agency. Such a board shall appraise 
the loyalty and suitability of persons for access to classified 
information, in those cases in which the Director of the Agency 
determines that there is a doubt whether their access to that 
information would be clearly consistent with the national security, and 
shall submit a report and recommendation on each such a case. However, 
appraisal by such a board is not required before action may be taken 
under sections 7512 and 7532 of title 5, or any other similar provision 
of law. Each member of such a board shall be specially qualified and 
trained for his duties as such a member, shall have been the subject of 
a full field investigation in connection with his appointment as such a 
member, and shall have been cleared by the Director for access to 
classified information at the time of his appointment as such a member. 
No person shall be cleared for access to classified information, 
contrary to the recommendations of any such board, unless the Secretary 
(or his designee for such purpose) shall make a determination in writing 
that such employment, detail, assignment, or access to classified 
information is in the national interest.

(Sept. 23, 1950, ch. 1024, title III, Sec. 302, as added Pub. L. 88-290, 
Mar. 26, 1964, 78 Stat. 168.)

                          Codification

    In subsec. (b), ``sections 7512 and 7532 of title 5'' substituted 
for ``section 14 of the Act of June 27, 1944, chapter 287, as amended (5 
U.S.C. 863), section 1 of the Act of August 26, 1950, chapter 803, as 
amended (5 U.S.C. 22-1)'' on authority of Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 7(b), 
Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, 
Government Organization and Employees. Sections 7511 and 7512 (which 
related to adverse actions against preference eligible employees and 
comprised subchapter II of chapter 75) were repealed by Pub. L. 95-454 
and replaced by a new subchapter II (Secs. 7511-7514) of chapter 75 
(relating to removal, suspension for more than 14 days, reduction in 
grade or pay, or furlough for 30 days or less).
