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===Unofficial Foreign Travel===
 
In order to further protect sensitive information from possible
compromise resulting from terrorism, coercion, interrogation or
capture of Agency personnel by hostile nations and/or terrorist
groups, the Agency has established certain policies and procedures
concerning unofficial foreign travel.
 
All Agency personnel (civilian employees, military assignees, and
contractors) who are planning unofficial foreign travel must have
that travel approved by submitting a proposed itinerary to the
Security Awareness Division (M56) at least 30 working days prior to
their planned departure from the United States. Your itinerary should
be submitted on Form K2579 (Unofficial Foreign Travel Request).  This
form provides space for noting the countries to be visited, mode of
travel, and dates of departure and return.  Your immediate supervisor
must sign this form to indicate whether or not your proposed travel
poses a risk to the sensitive information, activities, or projects of
which you may have knowledge due to your current assignment.
 
After your supervisor's assessment is made, this form should be
forwarded to the Security Awareness Director (M56).  Your itinerary
will then be reviewed in light of the existing situation in the
country or countries to be visited, and a decision for approval or
disapproval will be based on this assessment.  The purpose of this
policy is to limit the risk of travel to areas of the world where a
threat may exist to you and to your knowledge of classified Agency
activities.
 
In this context, travel to communist-controlled and other hazardous
activity areas is prohibited.  A listing of these hazardous activity
areas is prohibited.  A listing of these hazardous activity areas can
be found in Annex A of NSA/CSS Regulation No. 30-31, "Security
Requirements for Foreign Travel" (12 June 1987).  From time to time,
travel may also be prohibited to certain areas where the threat from
hostile intelligence services, terrorism, criminal activity or
insurgency poses an unacceptable risk to Agency employees and to the
sensitive information they possess.  Advance travel deposits made
without prior agency approval of the proposed travel may result in
financial losses by the employee should the travel be disapproved, so
it is important to obtain approval prior to committing yourself
financially.  Questions regarding which areas of the world currently
pose a threat should be directed to the Security Awareness Division
(M56).
 
Unofficial foreign travel to Canada, the Bahamas, Bermuda, and Mexico
does not require prior approval, however, this travel must still be
reported using Form K2579.  Travel to these areas may be reported
after the fact.
 
While you do not have to report your foreign travel once you have
ended your affiliation with the Agency, you should be aware that the
risk incurred in travelling to certain areas, from a personal safety
and/or counterintelligence standpoint, remains high.  The requirement
to protect the classified information to which you have had access is
a lifetime obligation.