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From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 09:58:59 -0800
Fwd Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 17:58:58 -0500
Subject: Re: Skywatch: COSMIC TOP SECRET/Dr. Michael Wolf

 > From: "SKYWATCH INTERNATIONAL, INC." <skywatch@mail.phoenix.net>
 > Organization: SKYWATCH INTERNATIONAL
 > Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 03:19:25 -0700
 > Subject: Skywatch: COSMIC TOP SECRET / DR. MICHAEL WOLF

 > ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
 > From:          "Michael Hockney" <bhockney@vip.net>
 > To:            <skywatch@phoenix.net>
 > Subject:       COSMIC TOP SECRET / DR. MICHAEL WOLF
 > Date:          Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:55:57 -0800

 > Greetings Everyone...

 > Where to begin?  I may be kicking an old can here, but since I've read
 > this article in UFO MAGAZINE  titled  "Dr. Michael Wolf - Another Bob
 > Lazar?", I've had some questions.

   [snip]


 > ON COSMIC TOP SECRET

 > Dr. Wolf was invited to comment on Bob Deans claim to have seen the
 > Assessment labeled Cosmic Top Secret, and Wolf's claim was to have seen
 > the same document. "Well, you know that Cosmic is short for Umbra,
 > Ultra, Wintell or Winnitell... there are a number...


Once again this is like spreading a rumor.  Was it Dr. Wolf
who got it wrong or the reporter?  Or maybe the editor who
wants to hype his story?

COSMIC is not short for anything.  It is part of the of
NATO designation for NATO TOP SECRET.  Instead of saying
NATO TOP SECRET we say COSMIC TOP SECRET.  COSMIC tells us
that it is NATO material.  We know that it requires other
handle instructions that US TOP SECRET.  We have to take
it to the NATO sub-registry to get updates or submit reports
of destruction, transfer, etc. to them.  If the document
is compromised, there are other officials outside the
usual Chain of Command that must be informed.

COSMIC is not an additional to the classification.
It is part of the designation.  Warning notice such as
WNINTEL, Restricted Data, etc. are in addition to the
classification.

Warning Notices.  (See Army Regulation 380-5, paragraph
4-500).  These are items that may require special
handling COMSEC, Communications Security materials,
are codes and key.  There is a different reporting
chain for disposition or compromise of these items.

WNINTEL (sometimes in the past WINTEL)  Warning
Notice--Intelligence Sources and Methods Involved
is a caveat.  This indicates that sensitive
means or techniques were used to gain the information.
Perhaps someone would died if the information was
reveal.  Perhaps a continuing sources of information
would be compromised, or perhaps the capability of a
 technical method would be revealed.

A made up example:  A relative of the load master at
an East German rail yard let someone on US side know
that a new Soviet artillery weapons will be shipped
to the rail yard under canvas covers, but the covers will
be removed after dark and the weapon transported to the
Soviet military barracks in the area.  With this
information the US Military Liaison Mission (USMLM) makes
a tour of this area at the proper time and is able
to secure a photograph using a high tech camera.

The US now has a picture of a previously unknown weapon.
Next month the Red Army Magazine runs a long article on
the new artillery weapon.  If the rail yard picture is
properly marked the classification authority
knows he should not declassify the picture as it might
contain some signature which would: 1) compromise the
informant, or 2) reveal what type of equipment the USMLM
carries with them.  The proper warning for this classification
would be WNINTEL.  Item could be classified SECERT or
TOP SECRET and use the WNINTEL addition as a warning.

I doubt if ULTRA is used by the US.  Perhaps it is,
but there is a chance of confusion with other countries
designations.  ULTRA SECTRO is TOP SECRET for some Spanish
speaking nations.

UMBRA is not familiar to me.  Tom, your comments please.

From the foregoing WNINTEL and COSMIC are unrelated and
not as asserted by Dr. Wolf the same thing.  Perhaps a
more critical examination of his other claims is in order.
Once again, a little research is called for here.  Of course,
some people seem to enjoy be hoodwinked over and over
again.

> Keystone documents,
> both classified because the waythe information is gathered and Cosmic
>is kind of a short term that characterizes an Ultra- Umbra
>classification at the top.

Again, wrong!

> He goes on to mention a "Q-LEVEL SEVEN" classification
> and then comes UMBRA, ULTRA and KEYSTONE.

Sounds rather James Bond.  There was a "Q" designation
for civilian clearance.  Just enough truth mixed with
imagination to make it sound good to the marks.

 Jan Aldrich