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Background and Purpose. As an employee of the Department of Defense or one of its contractors, licensees, or grantees who occupies a position which requires access to classified information, you have been the subject of a personnel security investigation. The purpose of this investigation was to determine your trustworthiness for access to classified information. When the investigation was completed, your employing or sponsoring department or agency granted you a security clearance based upon a favorable adjudication of the investigation results. By being granted a security clearance, you have met the first of three requirements necessary to have access to classified information.