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A Little Humor Dear FSO, I noticed that there is a strange glass container in the parking lot. It looked like someone was trying to make sun tea. Can you make a policy about this? It is really making our "facilities" look bad. Signed Tea me *** Dear Tea, According to NISPOM , Mail or shipments containing classified material shall be addressed to the Commander or approved classified mailing address of a Federal activity or to a cleared contractor using the name and classified mailing address of the facility. An individual's name shall not appear on the outer cover. This does not prevent the use of office code letters, numbers, or phrases in an attention line to aid in internal routing. Jeffrey W. Bennett, ISP is the owner of Red Bike Publishing Red Bike Publishing . Jeff is an accomplished writer of non-fiction books, novels and periodicals. He also owns Red bike Publishing. Published books include: "Get Rich in a Niche-Insider's Guide to Self Publishing i...

From "Insider's Guide to Security Clearances" Reporting Security Violations Providing required reports to the authorized persons or agency contributes to reducing the impact of the potential security violation, compromise or suspected compromise. Cleared employees should understand to whom and what to report. The sooner the report is issued and the more details given, the more can be done to prevent or mitigate damage to national security. Cleared employees should be trained to report events affecting the facility security clearance or personnel security clearances. These events include threats to the security of classified information or the fact that classified information has been lost or compromised. All cleared employees should be trained how to submit reportable information internally to the FSO. Additionally, FSOs have reporting channels through DSS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The quicker information gets to the proper reporting authority...