(a) General. (1) This section establishes procedures for visits by United States citizens and foreign nationals to Army installations and activities within the continental United States. The Commanding General, U.S. Army Alaska; the Commanding General, U.S. Army, Hawaii; and overseas commanders may utilize this section for guidance in establishing local procedures. Requests to visit activities in Alaska, Hawaii, or oversea commands should be submitted to the commanding general of the area concerned.

(2) The commanding officer of an Army installation, or the Department of Army representative, hereinafter referred to as the Army representative, at an Army activity will determine whether the situation at the time of the visit makes the admission of a visitor inadvisable, and is empowered to postpone the visit and request instructions from the office which authorized it.

(b) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions apply:

(1) Foreign national. Any person not a citizen of nor immigrant alien to the United States.

(2) Foreign representative. Any citizen of the United States or immigrant alien thereto who is acting as a representative, official, or employee of a foreign government, firm, association, corporation, or individual.

(3) Army installation. A post, camp, or station, generally self-sufficient, situated on Department of the Army controlled land and established by Department of the Army orders. (Fort Belvoir, Marion Engineer Depot, etc.)

(4) Army activity. Agency, detachment, office, or other Department of the Army operated entity established by competent orders.

(5) DA agency. Those Headquarters, Department of the Army, agencies having command functions.

(c) Release of military information. Where the visit involves access to classified defense information the installation commander or the Army representative concerned will be responsible for controlling access to such information consistent with the purpose of the visit and will not permit access to any other classified defense information in his custody. In no case will visitors be granted access to information classified higher than that indicated by the Department of the Army agency approving the specific visit, nor will visitors be permitted to take photographs of a classified subject or object unless prior written approval has been obtained from the Department of the Army agency concerned. During periods of access to classified defense information, visitors will be escorted or supervised by responsible persons designated by the installation commander or Army representative concerned.

(d) Visits of foreign nationals and foreign representatives. Foreign nationals and foreign representatives will be admitted to Department of the Army installations and activities only in accordance with the authorization procedures established by this paragraph. Authorization of a visit in itself does not constitute authority for the release of classified defense information to visitors, nor retention by visitors of any classified documents or material. Visitors should be advised that requests for such information or material connected with their visits must be submitted to the Department of the Army by the appropriate diplomatic representative of their country or the country of the firm which they are representing. Where visual or oral disclosures only are desired or indicated, such a request may be made in conjunction with the request for the visit. Foreign nationals and foreign representatives will not be permitted access to classified defense information until their identity has been clearly established and it has been determined that the release of the information requested has been authorized.

(1) By authority of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of the Army. (i) Foreign nationals and foreign representatives, except as otherwise indicated, may be admitted to Department of the Army installations and activities only upon written authority

of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of the Army. Requests for visit approval will be submitted by or through the prospective visitor's diplomatic representative in the United States, to the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, ATTN: Foreign Liaison Office, Department of the Army. Requests for visits by foreign nationals while acting as representatives of international organizations, involving the release of United States classified defense information, will be submitted by the U.S. agency charged with maintaining liaison between the international organization and the United States. Such requests will be forwarded to the Secretariat, State-Defense Military Information Control Committee (S/SDMICC). All visit requests will include:

(a) Name in full.

(b) Official title or position. (c) Nationality.

(d) Visa, passport, or orders number. (e) Date and place of birth.

(f) Name of installation, or activity to which admission is desired.

(g) Date of visit or dates between which visits are desired.

(h) Purpose of visit.
(i) Sponsor.

(j) Security clearance.

(ii) Requests for visits of foreign nationals and foreign representatives to:

(a) Installations or activities under the command jurisdiction of a DA agency will be processed through that agency.

(b) Installations or activities under command jurisdiction of ZI armies or Military District of Washington, U.S. Army, will be processed directly between Headquarters, Department of the Army, and the ZI army (or MDW) concerned, with information copy furnished to Headquarters, U.S. Continental Army Command.

(c) U.S. Army Human Resources Research Units and Combat Surveillance and Target Aquisition Training Command will be processed through Headquarters, U.S. Continental Army Command.

(iii) The Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, in approving a visit, will specifically state the limitations for disclosure of classified defense information that are applicable to the particular visit. When disclosure of classified information is authorized in connection with a visit, such disclosure will be lim

ited to the information necessary to accomplish the purpose of the visit. When classified information or material in documentary form is made available to visitors during the course of briefings or presentations, all necessary precautions will be taken to safeguard such information or material. Classified information or material in documentary form will not be released to visitors for their personal retention, but must be requested through diplomatic channels in the manner previously indicated in this paragraph.

(2) By authority of heads of Headquarters, Department of the Army agencies and Commanding Generals, U.S. Continental Army Command, Army Materiel Command, and Combat Development Command. Military representa

tives of foreign governments who are duly accredited by the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of the Army, to the head of a Department of the Army agency, to visit the office of the agency head or installations under jurisdiction, may submit visit requests directly to the agency head. The agency head may approve such requests provided the visit is being made for a purpose within the terms of accreditation. The provisions of this subparagraph apply also to military representatives of foreign governments accredited by the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of the Army, to the Commanding Generals, U.S. Continental Army Command, Army Materiel Command, and Combat Development Command.

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(3) By authority of the installation commander or Army representative. authority of the commanding officer of an Army installation or the Army representative at an Army activity, foreign nationals and foreign representatives may be admitted to the installation or activity under the following conditions, provided that no classified defense information is disclosed:

(i) For social purposes.

(ii) For activities open to the general public.

(iii) For authorized medical treatment.

(iv) In connection with emergency landings or other emergency situations.

(v) For domestic, janitorial, housekeeping, repair, and maintenance activities.

(vi) As transients through military installations (i.e., port of embarkation, port of debarkation).

(vii) On matters of official business when the individual is employed by a contractor in the performance of a military contract, or by an agency of the United States Armed Forces or other agency of the United States Government.

(viii) For visits approved by the Defense Logistics Center, Defense Supply Agency made for the purpose of inspecting items of excess material available for sale to eligible foreign governments.

(ix) Canadian defence suppliers and representatives of the Canadian Department of Defence Production in connection with procurement solicitations or other matters related thereto. Discussions conducted during visits in this category cannot be expanded to include classified matters.

(x) For those visits described under subdivisions (vii) and (ix) of this subparagraph, the following will be accomplished:

(a) A visit request in accordance with subparagraph (1) of this paragraph will be submitted to the Army installation commander or to the Army representative at the activity to be visited.

(b) The applicant will be notified whether the visit is approved or disapproved.

(c) Prior to admittance the identity of the visitor will be clearly established.

(4) By authority of Commanding General, U.S. Army Air Defense Command. (i) Canadian military personnel assigned to North American Air Defense Command and Continental Air Defense Command accredited to U.S. Army Air Defense Command may be admitted to U.S. Army installations, in connection with air defense activities, on the authority of the Commanding General, U.S. Army Air Defense Command. Classified information may be disclosed, at the lowest appropriate level consistent with the purpose of the visit, within the limits of the accreditation.

(ii) Members of the Armed Forces of Canada or representatives of the government of the Dominion of Canada may be admitted to antiaircraft installations on matters of mutual interest in connection with Air Defense operational matters on the authority of the Commanding General, U.S. Army Air Defense Command.

(5) By authority of Commanding Generals, ZI armies. Members of the Armed Forces of Canada and Mexico may be admitted to Department of the Army installations or activities near the borders of those countries and the United States in connection with border incidents, disciplinary problems, coordination of security matters pertaining to the border, and such other matters of mutual interest as may arise, on the authority of the commanding general of the ZI army concerned without reference to higher headquarters, provided that no unauthorized classified defense information is disclosed.

(6) By authority of commandants of service schools. Commandants of service schools are authorized to approve visits of foreign nationals to military installations and activities when such visits are field trips scheduled in the program of instruction of a course in which the foreign nationals are students, and when such field trips are in consonance with the purpose and scope of the school course attended. The school commandant will obtain the concurrence of the commander of the installation or activity to be visited before approval. During such visits, foreign students will not be furnished classified information higher than that which they have been authorized to receive in the school course which they have been attending.

(7) Visits to Army Language School. The Commandant of the Army Language School, Presidio of Monterey, California, is authorized to approve visits of foreign nationals and foreign representatives to his installation for the purpose of conducting lectures or discussions in a foreign language when such visits will result in a benefit to the school, provided that no classified defense information is disclosed.

(8) Visits by foreign news-media representatives. Foreign news-media representatives may request permission to visit Army installations or activities. Such requests will be processed through the Chief of Information, Headquarters, Department of the Army. The Chief of Information may approve such requests without reference to the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of the Army, provided that no classified defense information is disclosed and no classified installations are visited.

(e) Visits of United States citizens. By authority of the Army installation commander or the Army representative at an Army activity, United States citizens, except as provided in paragraph (b) (2) of this section, may be admitted to Army installations or activities under the following conditions:

(1) Casual visitors (visitors on a transient status, passing through port of embarkation or port of debarkation, parents or relatives of personnel stationed within the installation or activity, individuals invited for social occasions or activities open to the public, domestics or personnel employed or admitted for housekeeping, repair, and maintenance purposes or such other casual visitors who may be considered under similar criteria) may be admitted provided that no classified defense information is disclosed.

(2) Representatives of United States Government agencies or of the Military Establishment, and individuals employed by United States contractors or subcontractors or individuals engaged in cooperating with the Department of Defense in the capacity of engineer, inventor, consultant, or advisor, may be admitted provided that the local representative of the Department of the Army agency concerned considers the visit necessary or desirable and not in conflict with the best interests of the services. Classified defense information may be disclosed on a need-to-know basis to such visitors that appropriate visitor clearance, including security clearance, is obtained by the visitor prior to the visit in accordance with the requirements of the head of the Department of the Army agency concerned, or by authority of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of the Army; and provided that no information of a classification higher than that of the individual's clearance is disclosed. Access to classified defense information will not be permitted until identity and security clearance have been clearly established. Authorization for the visit in itself does not constitute authority for the release of classified defense information to visitors nor retention by the visitor of any classified documents or material. In case doubt exists as to the identity of the visitor, or whether he is acting in an official capacity, verification

will be made with the Assistant Chief of Staff G2 of the Army or other command concerned.

(3) Visits of representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission, its contractors and its contractor employees, and visits which will involve access to restricted data as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, will be controlled by Headquarters, Department of the Army.

(4) Installation commanders and Army representatives at activities may contact any cognizant security office or the Chief, Industrial and Personnel Security Group, ATTN: Central Index File, Fort Holabird, Baltimore 19, Md., direct on matters pertaining to visits by contractor employees.

(5) Reporters, photographers, and other representatives of public information media may be admitted to Army installations or facilities provided that no unauthorized classified defense information is disclosed.

(6) Union officials not employed by contractors but who may require access to classified defense information or to closed or restricted areas in connection with the specific terms of a bargaining or other agreement with a contractor may be granted access to such information or areas by the commander of an installation under the following procedures:

(i) Appropriate documentation will be furnished by the union official to the commander of the installation as follows:

(a) Name and address of the person for whom visit is requested. (b) Citizenship.

(c) Date and place of birth. (d) Organization with which the person is associated.

(e) Position of person in organization. (f) Date of requested visit or dates of intermittent visits.

(g) Purpose of visit in detail, including classified information to which access is required and the reason therefor.

(h) Person(s) to be visited, if known. (i) Name and address of any facility or Army installation to which the person has submitted previously, forms identified in (j) of this subdivision.

(j) Five signed Personnel Security Questionnaires (DD Form 48), five signed Certificate of Non-Affiliation with certain Organizations (DD Form 48-1) and one executed fingerprint card.