Actually, Top Secret is the highest level. But there are additions to that like SCI, Cosmic, CNWDI, etc. Those different additions to Top Secret limit the access to a select group of people. There was one SCI program that only 3 people on the base had access to. I routinely called up squadron commanders and told them I needed 4 aircraft and crews for a special mission and that is all the information that they would know. I then briefed the crews and off they went. When I was doing Revolutionary Planning, I came up with way to defeat stealth. I was sent over to DARPA to talk to them. They read me in and red me right back out so I could never talk about it. All of these special access type programs and designations require you to be read in and when you leave you are read out. Currently, TS/SCI is way overused so bad people can get access to things they should not be able to see.
Actually, Top Secret is the highest level. But there are additions to that like SCI, Cosmic, CNWDI, etc. Those different additions to Top Secret limit the access to a select group of people. There was one SCI program that only 3 people on the base had access to. I routinely called up squadron commanders and told them I needed 4 aircraft and crews for a special mission and that is all the information that they would know. I then briefed the crews and off they went. When I was doing Revolutionary Planning, I came up with way to defeat stealth. I was sent over to DARPA to talk to them. They read me in and red me right back out so I could never talk about it. All of these special access type programs and designations require you to be read in and when you leave you are read out. Currently, TS/SCI is way overused so bad people can get access to things they should not be able to see.
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