1) You must qualify for a Top Secret, Compartmentalized, National Security Clearance. This type of clearance takes approximately one year to eighteen months to obtain. The number of individuals that would qualify for such a clearance is extremely small.  In fact, the number who are finally selected for appointment is less than 1%. Our lead technician not only held such a DOD security clearance, he held additional law enforcement clearances as a member of the Chicago Police Department, Special Operations Group.The question you should ask yourself, what is the advantage of hiring a TSCM technician who never held or could qualify for such a security clearance.

2) You must take and pass a counterintelligence interview and a counterintelligence polygraph examination. This polygraph examination will touch upon every part of your life from grammar school, up to the time of your polygraph examination. Our lead technician took and passed a counterintelligence polygraph examination. The question you should ask yourself, what is the advantage of hiring someone who never took a counterintelligence polygraph examination.

3) You must be a graduate from a Department of Defense, FBI, US Secret Service, Department of Energy, or some other intelligence or federal law enforcement academy, and then be credentialed as a “Special Agent,” before being qualified to attend the governmental TSCM training facilities. Our lead technician graduated from the US Army Counterintelligence School and was credentialed as a Counterintelligence Special-Agent, Military Intelligence. The question you should ask yourself, what is the advantage of hiring someone who never was trained in Counterintelligence or for that matter, in law enforcement.