The question is, do they do security screen for all applicants? Or only certain countries? Or only those that come up with flags from database searches?
Relevant for us as my spouse's background doc did tick off the "ever held any government positions" box. Spouse thought that was overstating as it was first job out of university, analyst-level, and many years ago. I felt was more important to be exact and not get caught up on any inadvertent misstatements. But the position definitely did not meet any definition of 'official' of a foreign government.