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Re: Use of the term 'Extremely Sensitive'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hal Abelson)
Tue Apr 21 15:47:26 1998
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 14:49:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hal Abelson <hal@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
To: casey@justice.usdoj.gov
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, INFSEC-L@admin.tamu-commerce.edu,
Marty.Ferris@fms.sprint.com, jmferris@erols.com, pgjdes@erols.com,
Michelle.Moldenhauer@treas.sprint.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980420152048.22782E-100000@doc.usdoj.gov>
(casey@justice.usdoj.gov)
Reply-To: hal@mit.edu
>>>>> In reply to the message of Mon, 20 Apr 1998 15:26:47 -0400 (EDT)
>>>>> from Mary C Darden:
Mary> All,
Mary> Anyone know of any Fed agencies using the term 'Extremely Sensitive' in
Mary> defining info that is unclass but is a little bit more protections - but
Mary> does not meet the definition of classified?
Mary> TIA, Mary Casey Darden
Mary> Mary Casey Darden (202) 514-4312
Mary> Information Management and Security Staff casey@justice.usdoj.gov
Mary> Justice Management Division
Mary> U.S. Dept of Justice
I haven't seen that exact term. However "sensitive, but unclassified"
is used by (among others) the DOE and the NSA.
The book
Herbert N. Foerstel, Secret Science: Federal Control of American
Science and Technology.
has an entire chapter on this.
== Hal Abelson
