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sobtaining information of direct or indirect military
value. This condition results from the establishment
and maintenance of protective measures that ensure a
state of inviolability from hostile acts or influences.
SECURITY VIOLATION —Any failure to
comply with regulations relative to the security of
classified material that does not result in compromise
or subjection to compromise.
Q8. What description best defines the term access?
CATEGORIES OF CLASSIFIED
INFORMATION
Official information or material that requires
protection in the interest of national security must be
classified in one of three categories, Top Secret,
Secret, or Confidential, depending upon the degree of
its significance to national security. No other
categories may be used to identify official information
or material as requiring protection in the interest of
national security.
Top Secret
Top Secret is the designation that is applied only
to information or material of which the unauthorized
disclosure of which could reasonably be expected to
cause exceptionally grave damage to national security.
Examples of exceptionally grave damage include
armed hostilities against the United States or its allies;
disruption of foreign relations vitally affecting the
national security; the compromise of vital national
d e f e n s e p l a n s o r c o m p l e x c r y p t o l o g i c a nd
communications intelligence systems; the revelation
of sensitive intelligence operations; and the disclosure
of scientific or technological developments vital to
national security.
Secret
Secret is the designation that is applied only to
information or material of which the unauthorized
disclosure of which could reasonably be expected to
cause serious damage to national security. Examples
of serious damage include disruption of foreign
relations significantly affecting the national security;
significant impairment of a program or policy directly
related to national security; revelation of significant
military plans or intelligence operations; compromise
of significant military plans or intelligence operations;
a n d c o m p r o m i s e o f s i g n i f i c a n t s c i e n t i f i c or
technological developments relating to national
security.
Confidential
Confidential is the designation that is applied to
information or material of which the unauthorized
disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause
identifiable damage to national security. Examples of
identifiable damage include the compromise of
information that indicates strength of ground, air, and
naval forces in the United States and overseas areas;
the disclosure of technical information used for
training, maintenance, and inspection of classified
munitions of war; and the revelation of performance
characteristics, test data, design, and production data
on munitions of war.
For Official Use Only
For Official Use Only is NOT a category of
classification but is assigned to certain official
information not within the range of the rules for
safeguarding information in the interest of national
security, but may require protection according to law
or in the public interest.
Restricted Data or Formerly
Restricted Data
Restricted Data, like For Official Use Only, is NOT
a category of classification but is assigned because it
concerns data (information) covering the (1) design,
manufacture, or use of atomic or nuclear weapons; (2)
the production of special nuclear material; or (3) the use
of special nuclear material in the production of energy,
but not to include data declassified or removed frorn the
Restricted Data category under Section 142 of the
Atomic Energy Act. Formerly Restricted Data is
information removed from the Restricted Data category
upon determination jointly by the Department of Energy
and DOD that such information relates primarily to the
military use of atomic weapons and that such
information can be adequately safeguarded as classified
defense information. Such information is, however,
treated the same as Restricted Data for purposes of
foreign dissemination.
Material bearing the Restricted Data or Formerly
Restricted Data warning notices may not be issued
outside authorized channels without the permission of
the originator or higher DOD authority. (Refer to the
Department of the Navy Information and Personnel
Security Program Regulation, OPNAVINST 5510.1.)
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