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Originally Posted by farmstud60
1. There are different markings for the level of classified documents. They are not equal in their importance.
3. Just because a document was classified as top secret on January 1, 2020 doesn't mean it is still top secret on January 1, 2021. The information becomes widely know as it is in the current news.
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I have in my possession a document marked "TOP SECRET BIGOT". At the time, that marking. "BIGOT" meant that that it was only to be
seen by those who we reauthorized to use it, or "need-to-know".
This is an invasion battle map from WW-II showing all the landing zones for "Operation Dragoon", the amphibious landing in Southern France in
August of 1944, after the D-Day invasion in Normandy.
The detailed classified information on that map, for which several French resistance fighters had died to get, became open knowledge when the sun came up that morning.
It has been in one closet or another, ever since my Dad came home from the war in 1946.