Number: RL31883 Title: Counterintelligence Reform at the Department of Energy: Policy Issues and Organizational Alternatives Authors: Alfred Cumming, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division Abstract: Although the Department of Energy (DOE) has taken steps to strengthen security and counterintelligence practices, some observers have questioned the effectiveness of the partially bifurcated counterintelligence structure. This comes at a time when observers believe DOE and the National Nuclear Security Administration facilities have been and will continue to be a major target of foreign intelligence services, friendly, as well as hostile. Pages: 9 Date: March 8, 2005