Concept
Controlled Access Program
Also known as CAP, Controlled Access Programs, controlled access program
A Controlled Access Program is the intelligence community's counterpart to the Pentagon's Special Access Program. Defined in Intelligence Community Directive 906, a CAP is a top-level control system together with any compartments under it (examples include SI, TK and HCS): not a classification level, but a set of access restrictions above ordinary classification, overseen by the Director of National Intelligence.
The term matters in UAP debates because whistleblowers allege that UAP information is held in compartments that even cleared officials and members of Congress cannot see.
Sources: Intelligence Community Directive 906
Facts and claims
- documented The intelligence community's counterpart to a Special Access Program. Defined in Intelligence Community Directive 906, a CAP is a top-level control system and any compartment or sub-compartment under it (examples include SI, TK and HCS). It is not a classification level but a set of access restrictions above ordinary classification. The DNI oversees CAPs for intelligence sources and methods, but not military operational programs. Source: doc-icd-906.pdf
Connected files
Concepts
- Special Access Program (equivalent of)
Documents
Programs
- Legacy program (alleged form of) — The alleged structure is an unacknowledged SAP or an intelligence-community Controlled Access Program
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- Department of War (Department of Defense) (Organization)