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My Dark Materials August 15, 2022 12:12 pm ER

…the Classification Hierarchy (at least during my time as a spook) was:

Confidential
Secret
Top Secret
SCI (Special Compartmentalized Information)

Now, who decides what goes in which category, what determines the category boundaries, and what (if any) are the sub-categories), I do not know.

At least, that’s how it was 30 years ago. I still have the receipts I was given when I returned all my classified materials. I was warned to keep them for the rest of my life.

  • My family knows my father had clearance by podrock 2022-08-15 13:18:03
    • Even the knowledge that a given person does NOT have a clearance can be useful to adversaries by RL 2022-08-15 19:39:46
      • Nice. by podrock 2022-08-17 12:09:09
        • A trivial aside by Pebble 2022-08-15 23:33:13
        • I had clearance. by Pebble 2022-08-15 14:58:38
          • Were there any? Grays or Reptilians? by podrock 2022-08-15 15:13:50
            • Just Aussies … by Pebble 2022-08-15 23:27:03
              • lol by podrock 2022-08-16 05:32:02
          • Ma7be Trump should be asked to show his receipts. by ER 2022-08-15 14:01:34

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