Hello,

I recently went through the pre-employment processing for an undergraduate intern position at the CIA, and was recently because I was found to be "unsuitable for Agency employment" at the time. The letter I received states this, and goes on to say that the decision was based on information that I provided or that was otherwise revealed during my processing. 

It also says that many circumstances that cause a person to be deemed unsuitable may be mitigated by the passage of time, and that the decision was not based on security considerations (so I did not have a security clearance denied). Finally, the letter invites me to re-apply for employment after one year.

I am just wondering if anyone on these forums have seen or heard of this happening, and if so, what usually causes someone to be rejected because of suitability? I am certain that nothing too detrimental came up in my BI, and the only negative things that I revealed during my poly was that I have used marijuana twice, both times in high school, with the one time being while I was visiting Amsterdam. The other bad thing was that I had a fake ID that I used my freshman year in college.

Do you think that this decision came from my polygraph results, or was it due to something else? As far as I can tell, my case never reached adjudication...

I am currently in the process of requesting records pertaining to my processing (medical, psych, poly, BI) through the Freedom of Information Act to try dig through them myself to look for anything that might have caused this decisions, but I'm not even sure that they will be able to disclose all of this to me.

Any advice or comments on my particular situation that you could give would be greatly appreciated.

The poly was a little rough (I had to go back for a second test), but overall I don't think it went badly enough to cause my rejection. Besides, this letter that I got stated that the decision wasn't based on security considerations....wouldn't the polygraph be counted as a "security" related test? 

Hopefully I can get my records through the Freedom of Information Act request to try to sort this all out and nail down a reason. Does anyone know if they typically disclose results of background investigations, medical, psychological, or polygraph tests? I feel like they should have no problem giving me the medical or psych, but that getting the poly results might be impossible.