Note - This Presentation is intended to be of special interest to citizens of
           Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

     If you are a person who ‘fits’ the above description, you should also be curious as
to whether you might be successful or a failure were you to be processed for such a
security clearance level.  An American research psychologist (who in the past has
retired from his Chief Research Psychologist position  in one of his County’s largest
intelligence agencies) has developed a psychometric prediction instrument that very
accurately predicts success/failure for American candidates in the event that they
would be processed for high-level security clearance status that is granted by the
U.S. Government.  In the past, this psychologist (i.e., Dr. LeRoy A. Stone) has
received a number of inquiries, from citizens of countries that make up the British
Commonwealth, as to whether his psychological prediction instrument might also be
able to accurately predict similar kinds of success/failure but with respect to the
being granted security clearances by any of the British Commonwealth countries. 
Dr. Stone’s initial response was that his instrument (i.e., the Personnel Security
Standards Psychological Questionnaire [PSSPQ]) was never actually ‘validated’ in
situations such as involving British Commonwealth country security clearances.

    However, a few British Commonwealth country citizens indicated that they were
familiar with both their home country’s requirements for being granted high-level
security clearance status and that they also had some knowledge that these
requirements rather closely resembled the requirements as set forth by the U.S.
Government.  At first, Dr. Stone declined to administer the PSSPQ to anyone who was
actually interested in his/her chances to be granted a high-level security clearance by
any country other than the USA.  However, a year or so ago, he was persuaded, by
three citizens of two different British Commonwealth countries (i.e., Australia and
England) that they really wanted to ‘take’ the PSSPQ; he relented and administered
the PSSPQ to them and then scored and interpreted its results.  Two of the three
PSSPQ predictions were “right on” (i.e., correct), however he never did learn how the
third one did turn out.

    This just recounted administration of the PSSPQ to British Commonwealth
persons further intrigued Dr. Stone and, as a consequence, he started to study (using the
Internet) the requirements or considerations that are followed by several of the
British Commonwealth countries (i.e., Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the
United Kingdom) when adjudicating persons for possible high-level security
clearance status.  He was not at all surprised to find that what these four different
countries considered, when evaluating a person for a high-level security status, was
very similar in overlapping with the requirements specified by the USA for the same
purpose.  What is specified in the Director of Central Intelligence Directive 4/6,
regarding the adjudication process that must be followed before a Top Secret -
Special Compartmented Information security clearance can be granted is very close
to those requirements and procedures following by Australia, Canada, New Zealand
and the United Kingdom.

    These four named countries and the USA are all very clearly aware that their
security clearance granting requirements are all very similar and, in fact, just about
entirely interchangeable.  As proof of this, government employees who hold TS-SCI
type clearances, are frequently formally assigned to work in one of the other
country’s secure facilities.  Their own country’s clearance are entirely accepted as
being equal to the ‘host’ country’s clearances.  In other words, if on a cooperative
assignment, clearances from one of the five named countries are accepted by the
other four.

     With this understanding, several months ago, Dr. Stone came to a conclusion
that it would seem highly logical to believe that if the PSSPQ provided a valid
prediction regarding the success or failure to obtain a USA granted high-level
security clearance, then it was along quite proper to believe that the PSSPQ could
provide valid predictions regarding success/failure in the same type matter with
security clearance status granted by the four named British Commonwealth
countries.  During these past several months, the PSSPQ has been administered to
six more British Commonwealth countries citizens.  As of 19 September 2003, three
of these more recent PSSPQ administrations have resulted in accurate predictions;
the governmental processing is still apparently going on with the remaining three
and therefore no success/failure final decision has been made by any of the involved
governments. 

     At this point, Dr. Stone is unable to provide a finite numbered validity coefficient
when involved with predictions of success/failure to obtain a high-level security
clearance granted by a British Commonwealth country; however, he feels quite
secure in believing that the ‘true’ validity coefficient is now much different from the
one actually seen when the clearance question is associated with the U.S.
Government.  That actual validity coefficient is 0.79 and this value has been
supported by additional cross-validation research.

    For anyone truly interested in the subject material presented in this Web Page,
the reader is strongly encouraged to also take a look at the additional following Web
Pages, which also describe important aspects and matters associated with use of the
PSSPQ.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~lastone2/psspq.html

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~lastone2/psspqfaq.html

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~lastone2/atyourservicepsspq.html

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~lastone2/howtotakepsspq.html
(This one is especially important as it describes, in detail, the procedure one
must go through in order to purchase an administration [i.e., to ‘take’],
obain results and interpretation of the PSSPQ)

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~lastone2/hrandsecdirectors.html

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~lastone2/increasesuccesschances.html

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~lastone2/individualsales.html

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~lastone2/onlyonepsspq.html

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~lastone2/psspqreliabilityvalidity.html

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~lastone2/securityclearancewaiting.html 

     In summary, it can be said that, at the present time, there exists sufficient evidence
that the PSSPQ can prove to be a valuable/useful tool to predict, for citizens of the
British Commonwealth, their chances to be successful (or failure) were they to be
evaluated and processed for their governments' granting of high-level security clearance
status.
 

This presentation is a sub-section of the Web Site of Dr. LeRoy A. Stone; the web address
for the Home/Index pages of this site is:  http://www.home.earthlink.net/~lastone2/home.html