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Old 27-December-2006, 05:59 AM
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Default US Military Security Classifications

This is a breakoff from the Roswell thread, where it was claimed that TOP SECRET (TS) was "too low a classification" for anything to do with any possible "coverup" of an extraterrestial craft crashing at Roswell in 1947.

I maintain that TS IS the top level of classification for the US military, and that if any coverup did take place at Roswell (which I personally dispute), the information would still have been classified under the normal conventions (Secret, TS, etc) and again, within the normal conventions, have a codeword (SCI / SAP) applied.

I invite neverfly to have a look at this:

http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/dod/5200-1r/index.html

That's DoD 5200.1-R, INFORMATION SECURITY PROGRAMME. The Bible regarding security classifications.

I would ask neverfly to point out anywhere in that document it refers to a classification higher than TS. I'd expand that request to point out an official US government document that refers to a classification higher than TS.

Mods, request you move the relevent posts from the Roswell thread to this one.
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