PHrEaK! wrote:
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On a fair number of occassions I have been told that federal type folks have made statements to the effect that there is no such thing as a "TOP SECRET" classification of US government docs. Since really secret things tend to get neither confirmed nor denied, I am inclined to believe this. Thus SECRET is the top classification in today's government/military. If anybody knows otherwise I would be interested in the information.
JWS
In high school I was in JROTC and was put in charge of security for our batallion. I read the army's guides to physical security. These books were dated early 80's and late 70's, so the situation might have changed, but I doubt it. They denoted three information security clearance levels. CLASSIFIED, SECRET, and TOP SECRET. If TOP SECRET doesn't exist now, it definately did just a few years ago. _ Actually there is one other For Official Use Only (FOUO), not as bad a
penelty if these docs get out. -- So you may wonder -- "But what does that have to do with me?" Answer: I have locked horns with "The Devil", buddy boy, and compared to him, you ain't sh**. Brian Francis Redman to Chip Berlet