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The Form 3940 TSCADS INCOMING TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS is used by TS collateral document recipients to identify receipt of documents and their movement from one office to another among the Top Secret control points of responsibility.
- The Classification Levels, Explained
- What Type of Information Is Classified?
- Who Decides Which Documents to Classify?
- Handling Classified Documents Is Serious Business
- Declassification Is Also Part of The System
As the United States prepared to enter World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8381, making it a crime to photograph or sketch any U.S. military installations or documents labeled “Secret,” “Confidential” or “Restricted,” which were classifications already being used by the Army and Navy. But the first attempt to public...
All kinds of information and materials meet one of the above standards, says Larry Pfeiffer, a former intelligence official who served as senior director of the White House Situation Room and chief of staff to the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. “Fundamentally, it all boils down to what damage could happen to national security if that ...
Not everybody in government has the power to classify information. There are individuals who have “original classification authority,” a power granted to top-level officials in every agency and branch of government. Those original classification authorities can then delegate that power to others in their agency. Jeffrey Fields, an international rel...
To get a security clearance to view “Top Secret” information, staff members at government agencies must pass extensive background checks. The president, vice president, and members of Congress have “Top Secret” clearances on the merit of being elected by the American people, says Pfeiffer. No background checks required. Fields says that staffers wi...
Classified documents aren’t supposed to remain under wraps forever, even “Top Secret” information. The original classification authority is supposed to place an “expiration date” on the information with a maximum of 25 years for the most sensitive documents. “We have billions and billions of classified documents out there, many of which don’t need ...
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Classified information can be designated Top Secret, Secret or Confidential. These classifications are only used on matters of national interest. Top Secret: applies when compromise might reasonably cause exceptionally grave injury to the national interest. The possible impact must be great, immediate and irreparable.
Complete with timelines and dozens of military acronyms, the documents, some marked "top secret", paint a detailed picture of the war in Ukraine and also offer information on China and allies.
Restrictions dictate shipment methods for classified documents. Top Secret material must go by special courier, Secret material within the U.S. via registered mail, and Confidential material by certified mail.
13 de ene. de 2023 · Classified files recovered from US President Joe Biden's former private office reportedly include some material marked top secret.
9 de feb. de 2024 · The special counsel report found that Biden willfully retained classified information, including top secret documents, and knew he was in possession of some documents as far back as 2017, and...
