Specifics, please, and then I can answer more accurately.
Specific case, technology, location, daily access to what. . .etc.
In the meantime, it is up to the adjudicators is to issue a clearance, and it is not at all uniform in its application——sad to say. I’d run it differently.
If I'd known specifics off the top of my head, I'd have posted them, lol.
But, what I am recollecting was at Los Alamos, and involved the eventual deportation of Chinese nationals. I'll look to see what I can find, to flesh that out.