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In reply to the discussion: I underwent an extensive FBI investigation when I was 21 years old. [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,853 posts)18. My brother was getting his clearances starting in the early 70s.
Not at all recent. I know just enough about security to know there are different levels, and a different background investigation is made for each. But what startled me so much was his assumption that of course I'd be questioned by the FBI.
One time when I was planning a trip with a tour group to the Soviet Union (this was 1976) he pitched a fit, saying I was endangering his job. I told him that if they were that concerned about his sister making such a trip, he ought to rethink his career choice. Since I was apparently a complete non-person to the FBI, there was no repercussion to him for my visit to the Evil Empire.
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I underwent an extensive FBI investigation when I was 21 years old. [View all]
MineralMan
Sep 2018
OP
There are different types of background checks - I underwent a background check like MM
HipChick
Sep 2018
#2
My older brother held some kind of security clearance at various points in his working life.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Sep 2018
#15
I never had the background check but I was "interviewed" by an FBI agent at my job once (70's)
dameatball
Sep 2018
#17
I saw it. Apples and oranges. This was an agent trying to find someone, not a background check.
dameatball
Sep 2018
#21
I doubt it. They wanted to know his whearabouts. No way it was about a job. People in the
dameatball
Sep 2018
#27
I had a similar situation when I was hired by a defense contractor in CA.
Totally Tunsie
Sep 2018
#31
If you still have TO Secret clearance, ask the FBI yourself. They can help more than we can.
ancianita
Sep 2018
#51
I meant help in getting answers to your questions. Ask the FBI directly. They're good
ancianita
Sep 2018
#53
I see. Sorry I took your meaning literally. We get a lot of that here. But these deserve FBI answers
ancianita
Sep 2018
#56