I. OPSEC and Non-Declared Facilities

Traditional operations security practices assume a facility will not open its doors to its adversaries, whether they be hostile intelligence services or industrial competitors. On-site inspection, the verification technique of choice for several international arms control treaties, requires the inspected party to do just that.

In the past, on-site inspection has not been an issue for most of private industry, as only declared facilities have been subject to inspection. However, non-declared facilities may now be inspected under the United Nations Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), the US/USSR bilateral agreements on chemical weapons, and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) [now a multi-lateral agreement between the US and Commonwealth of Independent States [CIS]: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine].

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