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Information "above Top Secret," a phrase used by the media, means either Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) or Special Access Program (SAP). It is not truly "above" Top Secret, since there is no clearance higher than Top Secret.
Good is a British author about UFOs. [9] [10] [11] In 1987 it was reported in The Observer that he was "Britain's leading UFO researcher".[12]In his 1987 book Above Top Secret: The Worldwide U.F.O. Cover-up, he was involved in the initial publication of the purported Majestic 12 documents; later, according to skeptic Phil Klass, Good questioned the authenticity of at least some of the documents.
SCI is not a classification; SCI clearance has sometimes been called "above Top Secret", [2] but information at any classification level may exist within an SCI control system. When "decompartmentalized", this information is treated the same as collateral information at the same classification level.
A Top Secret, or "TS", clearance, is often given as the result of a Single Scope Background Investigation, or SSBI. Top Secret clearances, in general, afford one access to data that affects national security , counterterrorism / counterintelligence , or other highly sensitive data.
The United States has three levels of classification: Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret. Each level of classification indicates an increasing degree of sensitivity. Thus, if one holds a Top Secret security clearance, one is allowed to handle information up to the level of Top Secret, including Secret and Confidential information. If one ...
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There is no information above Top Secret. SCI and SAP should be considered as a parallel or equivalent systems. SCI or SAP progroms exist at the Top Secret, Secret, and Confidential levels just as with other information. SCI and SAP are not media terms; they are indeed used by the intelligence community and the DOD.
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