Sensitive Compartmented Information
- (SCI) Classified information about or derived from intelligence sources, methods, or analytical processes that is required to be handled exclusively within formal access control systems established by the Director, Central Intelligence. (DODD 5200. 28)
- All information and materials requiring special Community controls indicating restricted handling within present and future Community intelligence collection programs and their end products. These special Community controls are formal systems of restricted access established to protect the sensitive aspects of intelligence sources and methods and analytical procedures of foreign intelligence programs. The term does not include restricted data as defined in Section 11, Public Law 585, Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. (DCID 1/1 6; DCID 1/1 6, Sup. ; NACSI M 5203; DOE 5635. lA)