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The Special Security Office (SSO) is a function within multiple arms of the
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federal government and armed forces with the mission to provide a reliable and secure means to receive and disseminate Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and Special Access Programs (SAP) to authorized recipients in the United States government and military organizations. In the military, they are administered by the
National Security Agency The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collectio ...
or Defense Intelligence Agency depending on the command's mission. Systematic handling of compartmented information probably is most associated with the Special Liaison Units (SLU) originally for the distribution of British
Ultra adopted by British military intelligence in June 1941 for wartime signals intelligence obtained by breaking high-level encrypted enemy radio and teleprinter communications at the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park ...
COMINT. Cleared personnel in these units and the equivalent US Special Security Offices (SSO), usually brought material to indoctrinated recipients, perhaps waited to answer questions, and took back the material. In some large headquarters, there was a special security reading room.


See also

* AFI 14-302, ''Control, Protection, and Dissemination of Sensitive Compartmented Information'' * Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System


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Special Security Office
(2011 archive) – US Army War College
Special Security Officer (SSO)
– US Dept. of Commerce, Office of Security
Special Security Officer (SSO)/Command Security Manager
(2020 archive) – US Navy OPTEVFOR Classified information United States government secrecy Defense Intelligence Agency {{US-gov-stub