Got one for you DOD Top Secret/IAA/CIAA/TSI/SCI/EBI/PS not telling who has it?

[edit on 7-1-2010 by ciagovnsa]

Don't forget Yankee White Cat I/TS-Crypto

SCI stands for special compartmentalized inteligence.

Those of you who do have clearances and discuss the definition of your compartments are inviting trouble, as you should already know. You signed a contract, live up to it.

[edit on 14-2-2010 by Guidance.Is.Internal]

Yankee White is for those who directly work with the president. But Yankee White isn't a classification per se, it's the most stringent background investigation there is though. Iapologize I'm not sure about Yankee fire. My guess would be similar to Yankee white except for the VP perhaps.

Something interesting for ya, the past 2 democratic presidents probably wouldn't have been able to obtain TS clearance in the normal manner. But the president and vp don't need security clearance.



TS/SCI TK/Q clearance

"TOP SECRET NONFORN" or "SECRET NONFORN" etc means that the material is not to be released to NON-US nationals.

[edit on 10-3-2010 by DJM8507]

Nothing beyond TS/SCI exists, to my knowledge. Secrecy is all about access control, and SCI simply limits access to a minority of an already small community of people. My hunch is that if there were a program having to do with aliens, UFOs, etc., then it would simply be one of the thousands of SCI compartments.

So are there things that the president doesn't have security clearance for?

Where is the clearance level of Cosmic?

One day I read somewhere online that there was this level, highest known that I could find.

I had a top secret while in high school. long story but i was doing a HS work experience programs on a major navy research base.
In navy boot camp i was interviewed for clearance and the person doing the interview ask if i had worked around classified information.
He ask when and what i had worked around and i told him he wouls have to ask the people at China Lake because i could not tell him because i did not know his clearance.and if his clearance applied to information from another base.
I must have been the right answer i still had the TS while in the navy.

After doing my time i went to work at china lake working in security and was told it would take 5 to 6 months to have my security clearance done so i could work all areas.
Two weeks later i got cleared TS/C Top Secret/Collateral
One of my jobs was to look for unsecured classified documents and equipment so i could end up finding almost anything and even code word classified documents.

There was times i had to guard strange tents and covered equipment at night sometimes with someone from another agency like marines or DOD cops. nether of us were allow to look and we had to watch each other.

Years later i worked as a construction worker for contractors working on the base and some times had higher security clearance then my bosses and some never did understand that..

Originally posted by earthairfirewater
SCI stands for special compartmentalized inteligence.

Correction: Sensitive Compartmented Information

That means you are cleared for access to a subset of a project, and future project background checks ensure you can never work on other parts of the same project.

What complicates matters is working for secret temporary agencies, such as those established to hide from other parts of government or to mitigate rules applied to specific agencies. The question is are they part of a project, or do they represent multiple projects.

The one inference I've made from what (few) lists of clearances that I've come across, is that plain old vanilla "Top Secret," is in fact generally fairly low, in the overall scheme of things.

Mind you, although I enjoy learning about things, (I probably wouldn't be on this site if I didn't) I generally make a point of not seeking anything that I can reasonably ascertain that I'm likely to get killed for knowing. I consider letting the scary people keep their secrets, to be an important survival strategy.