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This can mean creating a self sufficient pod with its own air supply, says Phil Lago, who is one of the founders of Command Consulting Group, a company which provides SCIFs to government agencies.

 

"We have to make sure that any kind of emissions don't get out. That could be from your laptop, your radio, your telephone," he explains.

 

Rather than a ring of steel around a secure complex, he likens it to a "ring of electronic waves" which prevents signals from getting in and out of the tent. The only signal which can get out is the encrypted communications, which are made through a secure and encrypted phone line, which sends conversations through a satellite, he says.

 

Nothing in a SCIF is allowed to operate on a remote control because that's a frequency that can be tapped.

Michael Creasey, Director, CSG Partners

"We never knew if there was someone in the building with a long range listening device," he says. "If we put up a tent in a secure area we knew the president could go in and feel fairly confident that a conversation is private."

 

Mr Lago recalls travelling with George W Bush to Kennebunkport, where the president used his mobile SCIF to conduct discussions with Tony Blair, who was in Downing St, about Afghanistan and Iraq.

 

The exact specifications of a mobile pod are top secret, but a public document (The intelligence community directive 705) states that a SCIF, mobile or not, needs not only to be totally soundproofed, but built with an "Intrusion Detection System" to detect any break-ins.

 

The tent itself is windowless and is made from a secret material which is designed to keep emissions in and listening devices out.