EXECUTIVE ORDER 11652--DEFINITIONS AND EXAMPLES OF THE STANDARD CLASSIFICATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00704A000100040017-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 17
• Content Type: LIST

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Within the Federal Government some official information and material, ... bear[ing] directly on the
effectiveness of our national defense and the conduct of our foreign relations, must be subject to son-,e
constraints for the security of.our Nation and the safety of our people and our allies. .., it is essential
that such official information and material be given only limited dissemination. This official information
or material, referred to as classified information or material ... [is to be] protected, but only to the
extent and for such period as is necessary...
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Classification
TOP SECRET
SECRET
CONFIDENTIAL
Degree of Protection - Highest . Substantial
Test: Unauthorized
disclosure could
reasonably be
expected to cause:
Examples
Exceptionally grave damage
to the national security.
Armed hostilities against the
US or its allies.
Disrupt foreign relations vitally
affecting the national security..
Compromise vital national
defense plans or complex
cryptologic and communi-
cations intelligence systems.
Reveal sensitive intelligence
operations.
Disclose scientific or tech-
nological development's vital
to the national security.
With utmost restraint
[Unspecified]
Serious damage to the Damage to the
national security. national security.
Significantly impair a [Unspecified]
program or policy
directly related to
the national security.
Disrupt foreign relations
significantly affecting
the national security.
Reveal significant military
plans.
Reveal [significant]
intelligence operations.
Compromise significant
scientific or technological
developments relating to
the national security.
Sparingly [T nspeeified`
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