https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/6155d31d8015da4a95286504306859a6.pdf d9e3dc86fb9286e5816be40fb185896d PDF Text Text Document disclosed under the Access to Information ActDocument divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information 7 CONFIDENTIAL AGREEMENT.BETWEEN THE ATOMIC ENERGY CONTROL BOARD OF CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES K T O M I C ENERGY COMMISSION CONCERNING SECURITY SAFEGUARDS AND STANDARDS. Signed a t Washington, June 8 , 1955* Entered i n t o Force, June 8 , 1955» AMENDMENT TO THE AGREEMENT CONCERNING SECURITY SAFEGUARDS AND STANDARDS. Signed a t Washington, March 8 , 1957. 000022 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information ^NFIDENTIAL THIS AGREEMENT, made as of the <r tl day of June, 1955, between the United States Atomic Energy Commission and the Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada: WITNESSETH THAT the parties agree as follows; The security safeguards and standards set forth in the Appendix are the security arrangements between the parties in effect on the date of this Agreement and concerning information and materials, including equipment and devices, relating to civil uses of atomic energy. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed pursuant to duly constituted authority* UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION Lewis L. Strauss. Chairman ATOMIC ENERGY CONTROL BOARD OF CANADA C.J. MacKenzie. Chairman 000023 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information •IFIDENTIAL APPENDIX Personnel Security A. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (USAEC) and the Atomic Energy Control Board ox" Canada (Control Board), agree that it shall be their respective policies to afford access to classified information only to those persons whose reliability has been sufficiently established to permit a determination by responsible Government authority that their being afforded such access will not endanger the national security. B. The USAEC and the Control Board agree that prior to affording access to classified information! 1. A determination of eligibility (decision to grant security clearance) for each individual to be afforded such access shall be made by a responsible Government authority. 2> This determination shall be made after an investigation concerning the individual's character, associations, and loyalty has been conducted by a responsible Government authority and the information thus developed has been related to criteria for determining eligibility as set forth in Annex A. These criteria are subject to continuing review by tho parties and may be revised from time to time by agreement as experience and circumstances may make desirable. 3. The minimum scope and extent of such investigations shall be related to the nature and significance of the access to be afforded in accordance with standards attached as Annex B. - i.-.* 000024 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information CONFIDENTIAL 4. In addition to the determination of eligibility for access to classified information, the individual's duties 6hall require his being afforded the information or material. C, Effective liaison shall be maintained between the national agencies responsible for national security and the agency responsible for the clearance determination and program execution to assure prompt notification of information with derogatory implications developed subsequent to the grant of security clearance. To further assure the security of the project, a program for selective reinvestigation of the individuals afforded access shall be prosecuted. D. The highest Executive Officer of the Agency responsible for security matters in the Atomic Energy Program in either Nation (i.e., in the United States, the General Manager of the Atomic Energy Commission, or In Canada, the Security Officer of the Atomic Energy Control Board presently the Vice-President, Administration and Operations, of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited) or the polioy making body responsible for security in tha Atomic Energy Program (i.e., In the United States, the Atomic Energy Commission, or in Canada, the Atomic Energy Control Board) may, upon a determination that such action is clearly consistent with the national interest, permit an Individual to be afforded access to classified information prior to completion of appropriate investigation. II. Ph/slcal Security A. The USAEC and the Control Board agree to afford physical protection against sabotage, espionage, unauthorised access or any other hostile activity to all classified - 2 - 000025 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information CONFIDENTIAL information and material and such protection shall be commensurate with the importance of the security interest. B. The Physical Security Program shall be implemented by establishing security areas with relationship to the sensitivity of activity; by controlling access to these areas; by protecting the properties and materials on hand for immediate use and in storage or in transit; and by facilitating freedom of movement for operating activities. C. Security areas shall be established to delimit premises so as to provide effective application of protective measures. They shall be established for those activities which, because of their classification, reveal characteristics, or sensitivity and importance require restrictions on access and cannot otherwise be properly safeguarded. Perimeter barriers (natural or structural) where required shall be sufficient to prevent or materially impede access by unauthorized persons. D. All persons permitted entry to security areas shall be admitted only in accordance with an adequate system of control. This system shall embody procedures for authorization by competent authority, accurate methods of personnel identification, accountability for identification media, and a means of enforcing any limitations of movement or access within security areas. E. The Parties agree to maintain document and information control programs which have for their basic purposes: 1. classification in otrict accordance with the sensitivity of the information; 2. the control of access; 3. ready accountability; - 000026 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information COM^pENTlA.L k. continuous review for purposes of downgrading or declassification; and 5. destruction upon service of purpose. Minimum standards for such purposes are attached ao Anntx C, F. Documents containing classified information shall be exchanged through diplomatic pouch or other mutually acceptable means; encipherment or encoding of messages shall be through mutually acceptable services; and materials shall be exchanged under appropriate security conditions, the specific methods to be determined by mutual agreement. G. The Parties recognize that the responsibility for the maintenance of security will rest at several Executive and Administrative levels. However, it is agreed that this shall not in any way relieve each person afforded access of his individual responsibility. Accordingly, it shall be the policy of the respective Parties to use all reasonable means to insure that all individuals having access to classified information under this Agreement shall be informed as to, and shall understand, the security regulations and procedures. To assure achievement of this objective, the Parties agree to maintain security education programs which shall Include as a minimum: 1. initial Indoctrination and orientation instruction; 2, periodic re-emphasis of individual responsibility; - k - 000027 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information CONFIDENTIAL 3, termination interview to emphasize the continuing responsibility for the protection of classified information. I H i Other A • Security Assurance It is recognized that exchange of Information shall cause individuals in the United States program to visit Canada and vice versa. In furtherance of this activity, the Parties agree to furnish (in advance) to responsible authority of the Nation to be visited, an assurance in writing* that the visitor has been found eligible for acceBs to classified Information In the sponsoring country and shall identify the kind of security clearance granted the individual and the scope of the Investigation upon which the clearance determination was based. In addition to this assur- ance, the following data shall be furnished: 1. full name (not initials) of the visitor; 2. date f.nd place of birth; 3. citizenship; 4. current residence address; 5. official title or description of official position, B. Security of Classified Contracts Every classified contract, subcontract, agency license or consultant agreement, entered into by either party to this agreement, shall contain appropriate clauses imposing obligations to abide by the security regulations of the appropriate party to this agreement. -5 - 000028 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information CONZ.DEKTIAL C. Continuing Review of Security System The Parties recognize that effective and prompt implementation of the security policies can be materially advanced through reciprocal visits of security personnel, Accordingly, it is agreed to continue thorough exchange of views relative to security policies, standards and procedures and to permit respective security working groups to examine and view at first hand the implementing procedures of the Agencies responsible for the administration of the atomic energy programs, such action to be undertaken with a view to achieving an understanding of adequacy and reasonable comparability of the respective systems. -6 - 000029 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information CONFIDENTIAL ANNEX "A" TO APPENDIX CRITERIA FOR DETERMINING ELGIBlLlW FOR SECUKIW CLEARANCE Category (A) Derogatory Information, Category A includes thoce c^asaes of derogatory information whioh establish a presumption of security risk. It includes those cases in which there are grounds sufficient to establish a reasonable belief that the individual or his spouse has: 1, Committed or attempted to commit, or aided or abetted another who committed or attempted to commit, any act of sabotage, espionage, treason or sedition; 2, Established an association with espionage or sabotage agents of a foreign nation; with individuals reliably reported as suspected of espionage or sabotage; with representatives of foreign nations whose interest may be inimical to the interests of the Nation (ordinarily this would not inolude chance or casual meetings; nor contacts limited to normal business or official relations); with traitors, seditionlsts, anarchists, or revolutionism. 3, Held membership in, or affiliation or sympathetic association with any organization or group whioh has in the United States been declared by the Attorney General, or in Canada has been determined by competent Government authority to be Totalitarian, Fascist, Communist, subversive, or as having adopted a policy pf advocating or approving the commission of acts of forae or violence to deny others their rights under the constitution of the Nation, or as seeking to alter the form of the government of the Nation by unconstitutional means, provided the individual did not withdraw frcm ouch memberahlp when the organization was so identified, or otherwise establish his - 7 - 000030 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information CONFIDENTIAL rejection of its subversive alms; or prior to such declaration or determination, participated in the activities of such an orRar.izatlon in a capacity where he should reasonably have had knowledge as to the subversive alms or purposes of the organisation. k, Publicly or privately advocated revolution by force or violence to overthrow the Government of the Nation or the alteration of the form of Government of the Nation, by unconstitutional means. 5. Refuse 1., upon the grounds of constitutional or statutory privilege against self-incrimination, to testify before a court or congressional or Parliamentary committee regarding changes of his alleged disloyalty or other misconduct. Category A also includes those cases in which there are grounds sufficient to establish a reasonable belief that the individual hast 6. Deliberately omitted significant information from or faJslfied a Personnel Security Questionnaire or Personal History Statement, In many cases, it may be fair to conolude that ouch omission or falsification waa deliberate if the information omittod or misrepresented is unfavorable to the individual; 7. Violated or disregarded security regulations to a degree which would endanger the common defense or security; intentionally and without authorization disclosed to any person classified information or other information, disclosure, of which is prohibited by law, or wilfully violated or disregarded security regulations; 8. Been adjudged insane, been legally committed to an insane asylum, been or is being treated for serious mental or neurological disorder, without evidence of cure; 000031 - 8 - �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur faeces a /'information •• CONFIDENTIAL 9, Been convicted of felonies indicating habitual criminal tendencies; 10, Been, or who is, addicted to the use of alcohol or Orugs habitually and to excess, without adequate evidence of rehabilitation; 11, Performed or attempted to perform his duties, or otherwice acted, so as to serve the interests of another govern*. ment in preference to the interests of the Nation, Category (B) Derogatory Information. Category B includes those classes of derogatory information where the extent of activities and the attitude and convictions of the individual must be weighed in determining whether a presumption of security risk exists. It includes those cases in which there are grounds sufficient to establish a reasonable belief that with respect to the individual or his spouse there is: 1. Sympathetic interest in Totalitarian, Fascist, Communist or other subversive political ideologies; 2. A sympathetic association established with members of the CommuniBt party; or with leading members of any organization set forth in Category (A), paragraph 3* above, (ordinarily, this will not include chanoe or casual meetings, nor contacts limited to normal business or official relations). 3. Identification with an organization established aB a front for otherwise subversive groups or Interests when the personal views of the individual are sympathetic to or coincide with subversive "lines"; H, Identification with an organization known to be infiltrated with members of subversive groups when there is alro information as to other activities of the individual which establishes the probability that he may be a part of or sympathetlo - 9 - 000032 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information - CONFIDENTIAL to the infiltrating element, or when he has personal views which are sympathetic to or coincide with subversive "lines"; 5, Residence of the individual's Bpou3e, parent(s), brother(s), slstera(s), or offspring in a nation whose interests may be inimical to the interests of the Nation, or in satellites or occupied areas thereof, when the personal views or activities of the Individual subjeot of the Investigation are sympathetic to or coincide with subversive "lines" (to be evaluated in the light of the risk that pressure applied through such close relatives could force the individual to reveal sensitive information or perform an act of sabotage), 6, Close continuing association with individuals (friends, relatives or other associates), who have subversive interests and associations as defined in any of the foregoing types of derogatory Information. A close continuing association may be deemed to exist if: (1) Subject liven at the same premises with such individual; (2) Subject visitB such individual frequently; (3) Subject communicates frequently with such individual by any means. 7, Association where the individuals have enjoyed a very close, continuing association such as is described above for some period of time, and then have been separated by distance; provided the oircumstances indicate that a renewal of contact is probable. Category (B) also includes those cases in which there are grounds sufficient to establish a reasonable belief that with respect to the individual there is: - 10 000033 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur faeces a /'information CONFIDENTIAL 8. Conscientious objection to service in the Armed Forcee during time of war, when such objections cannot be clearly shown to be due to religious convictions; 9, Manifest tendencies demonstrating unreliability or inability to keep important matters confidential, wilful or gross carelessness in revealing or disclosing to any unauthorized person restricted data or other classified matter pertaining to projects of any governmental agency of either Nation; abuse of trust, dishonesty, sexual perversion; homosexuality, Infamous, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful misconduct. - 11 000034 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information CCNFJEDENTJAL ANNEX "B" TO APPENDIX Standards for Scope and Extent of Investigation 1, The USAEC and the Control Board shall have two kind3 of security clearance for access to classified information. One shall be called "L" and other "0.". 2, The determination to grant security olearance "L" shall be based on the results of a comprehensive national agenoy check. The determination to grant security clearanoe "Q" shall be based on the results of a full field investigation, 3, AocesB to Information classified no higher than "Confidential" may be afforded an individual following grant of "L" olearance. Additionally, visual aocess to buildings and equipment classified "Secret" may be afforded craft or manual workers, community management or servioe workers, nurses, medical technicians, cafeteria workers, health and safety workers, purchasing and accounting workers and the like who are employed in classified construction or operations areas. Any other individual -fforded any type access to information classified higher than "Confidential" shall have been granted "Q" security clearanoe. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph, access to classified information may be afforded to personnel of the military establishments of the two governments and their contractors who iha.ye ibeen granted .comparable military clearanoe. 4, Definitions. a. National Agency Check means inquiry relative to an individual's character, associations, and loyalty through: 1, Check of arrest records (through medium of fingerprints or other adequate procedure.) - 12 - 000035 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information COjPJDE^IAL 2, Check of appropriate national agency investigative, criminal, intelligence and subversive files. b. Full Field Investigation means inquiry relative to an individual's oharacter, associations, and loyalty through: 1. a national agency check as above described. 2. open inquiry into the background of the individual. These inquiries shall be conducted in person and snail inolude interviews with referenoes and inquiries in the neighborhood In which the person resides and has resided, The period covered shall be the adult life span of the individual. Znoluded in the ooverage shall be the development of material facts relative to education; experience; periods of unemployment; self-employment; foreign employment; dismissals from employment; mental and emotional stability; oharaoterj habits; morals; arrests; marital status; health; citizenship; military service; date and place of bltffah; and organization membership. r 13 000036 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information ^N?_IDENTIAI'. ANNEX "C" TO APPENDIX CONTROL OF CLASSIFIED.INFORMATION 1, Classification. Information or material shall be classified strictly In accordance with agreed classification policies. The authority to classify shall be granted to the minimum number of individuals at the highest administrative level consistent with operational requirements and individuals ao authorized shall be held strlotly accountable for accuracy. In the interest of uniformity, the following special rules shall be observed: a. Documents shall be classified according to their own content and not necessarily according to their relationship to other documents, b. The classification of a file or group of physically connected documents shall be at least as high as that of the most highly classified document therein. c. Documents shall bear only one over-all classification, notwithstanding that pages, paragraphs, sections, or components thereof bear different classifications, and the over-all classification shall be as high as the highest classified component. 2. Access. Access to classified information shall be restricted to those individuals who require the information in the performance of their duties and who have been granted appropriate security clearance. Should such individual need to retain possession of classified documents, he shall have adequate faoilitles for their storage and protection. To assure these controls, procedures covering the following shall be established: " l4 ~ 000037 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information C(sS2JPJMU-k a • Master Reference Index. Appropriate records of the current s e c u r i t y clearance s t a t u s of Individuals and whether they are possessed of approved storage f a c i l i t i e s s h a l l be maintained. b. Marking of Documents and Material. Classified documents and material 3hall be conspicuously marked in suoh manner that t h e i r c l a s s i f i c a t i o n s w i l l be olnarly v i s i b l e and r e a d i l y recognizable. Whenever the information or material is d e c l a s s i f i e d , downgraded or upgraded, equally prominent and appropriate marking s h a l l appear. c. Storage • Except when in authorlzod transit, the possession or use of classified information shall be limited to locations where approved facilities for storage exist. Except during the periods when such information Is in use by authorized personnel, it shall be stored in repositories of approved design and construction. d. Transmission (intra-Nation). Transmission of classified documents within the respective .national boundaries shall be by courier or registered mail. e. Loss or Compromise. Any person having knowledge of the loss or possible compromise of classified information exchanged under this agreement shall promptly report the circumstances to.a designated official, and the latter shall take appropriate action forthwith, including advice to the originating nation. 3. Accountability Documents classified higher than "Confidential" exchanged under this agreement shall be maintained in accountability by - 15 000038 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information CONFIDENTIAL assignment of accountability numbers and transfers effacted by receipt. 4. Dpwnpyadinp; or Declassification There w i l l be periodic review of c l a s s i f i e d documents for the purpose of downgrading and d e c l a s s i f i c a t i o n in accordance with agreefl c l a s s i f i c a t i o n p o l i c i e s . 5. Destruction a. Upon service of purpose, documents exchanged under this agreement shall be destroyed and as required accountability records will reflect such action. b. Work sheets, carbon paper, stenographer's notes, imperfect copiesfendsimilar material which warrants classification shall bo safeguarded in the manner prescribed for documents of the same classification, until destroyed. - 16 - 000039 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information /,MtfUKiEKT TO ACBBKiffiiT OH SECURITY KTAKPARDS AHD SAFEGUARDS BETWEEN TUB ATOMIC EfillKGY COiniiOL I-OARD OF CANADA AMD THE UMITED. STATES ATOMIC EREP.GX COMMISSION The Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada ond the United States Atomic Energy Commission; Desiring to amend in certain reapects the Agreement between tbe Parties on Security Standards and Safeguards ("Agreement on Security") signed between them In Washington on the 8th day of June 1955; Have agreed as follows: ARTICLE I Article I B ^ of the Appendix to the Agreement on Security is amended to read as follows: "k. In addition, access shall be United as specified in paragraph 2 of Annex C." ARTICLE II The following amendments are made to Annex "C" to the Appendix to the Agreement on Security: 1. The first sentence of paragraph 2 of Annex C to the Appendix to the Agreement on Security is amended to read as follows: "Access to classified information shall be restricted to those persons who (i) have been granted appropriate security clearance and (ii), except as may otherwise be agreed with respect to Confidential Restricted Data relating to the civil uses of atomic energy, require the Information In the performance of their duties." 2. Paragraph 3 of Annex "C" to the Appendix to the Agreement on Security is emended to read as follows: "3. Accountability "A document accountability procedure shall be established for all documents classified higher than 'Confidential'. The procedure shall require the assignment of accountability numbers to such documents. Transfers of these documents shall be 000040 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information evidenced by appropriate entries In accountability records." 3. Paragraph 5 of Annex "C" to the Appendix to the Agreement on Security is emended to read as follows: "5. Destruction "a. Classified documents may be destroyed by burning, or shredding or by any other nethod vhich assures conplete destruction." "b. Work sheets, carbon paper, stenographer's notes, imperfect copies and similar material vhich warrant classification shall be safeguarded In the manner prescribed for documents of the same classification, until destroyed." ARTICLE III Ibis Amendment shall enter into force on the date on vhich each Party shall receive from tbe other Party written notification that lt has complied vith all statutory and constitutional requlreaents for the entry into force of such Amendment. • IN WIXNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, duly authorised, have signed this Amendment. DOME at Washington this $?- day of ffyu^ciL 1957. ATOMIC ENERQY CONTROL BQABD OF CAHADA P-E- V^-tt^{ UNIOT) STATES ATOMIC BBHSOT COMHSSIOH £££M S-^m^n 000041 � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CDNW02201 Title A name given to the resource Ammendment to the Agreement Concerning Security Safeguards and Standards Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6/8/1955 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "United Kingdom-United States-Canada - Security arrangements re." 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