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George Wesley, the current administration’s nominee to head the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), has indicated his plans to establish a new counterintelligence type career field to help bridge the communication and collaboration gaps between law enforcement agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigations and intelligence community agencies. He

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The Questionnaire for National Security Positions (SF-86) has various questions that ask for information within certain timelines. For example, residence and employment history go back 10 years and foreign travel and business activities go back 7 years. There are several sections with questions that ask for 7 years of history,

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