From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 05:40:43 +0200
Fwd Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 07:00:59 -0400
Subject: CNN - UFO Security Classification Hearings

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From: ROGER L. SCHERRER <cydonia@aztec.asu.edu>
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Date: Monday, May 11, 1998 6:25 PM
Subject: [cydonia@aztec.asu.edu: CNN - UFO Security Classification
Hearings]

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From: cydonia@aztec.asu.edu (ROGER L. SCHERRER)
To: cydonia
Subject: CNN - UFO Security Classification Hearings
Date: Mon, 11 May

To Whom it may concern. The Following information was provided by
a reliable, source who wished to remain confidential. I am not
the author. Cheers, Roger.

Date: Mon May 11 14:43:56 1998
Subject: hearings


On Mon. 5-11-98, C-SPAN provided live coverage of the House
Oversight Subcommittee hearings on Human Rights Documents for
Guatemala and Honduras.

Rep. Steve Horn (Republican from CA) questioned Lee Strickland
from CIA and Steve Garfinkle from the Information Security
Oversight Office about classification levels other than the usual
Top Secret, Secret, and Confidential categories. [Anyone that
has looked into this area would soon learn that there are many
levels that are higher than the Top Secret category.]

Rep. Horn's inquiry yielded the following information: there are
"special access programs" that are a subset within the Top Secret
category and there is a separate classification system for
nuclear-related programs (this system was created by the Atomic
Energy Act of 1954 and allows for the categories of "restricted
data" and "formerly restricted data").

Rep. Horn then asked about the classification of "UFO
information". Mr. Strickland and Mr. Garfinkle both said that
information relating to UFOs is classified according to the
regular system of Top Secret, Secret, and Confidential. If we are
to believe the testimony of these two, there are only a handful
of classification levels.

A good follow up question that Rep. Horn should have asked is the
following:  What about SCI, CRYPTO, ULTRA, VRK, UMBRA, Q38, etc.
etc.? I have a sneaky suspicion that the Rep. from CA was being
duped.

Apparently, Rep. Horn is planning future hearings on the issue of
secrecy. Call his office and support him in this effort to shed
light on the shadow government that hides behind the cloak of
"national security".

There is an (800) phone number: 800/504-0031 Reaches the capital
switch board and then request they connect you to his office or
your own represenative or Congressman.

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