On Aug 27, 2012, at 8:29 AM, Doug Franklin wrote: > On 2012-08-27 6:19, Joseph McAllister wrote: > >> TS TK NOFORN. > > I know what TS and NOFORN are, but what's TK? > > -- > Doug "Lefty" Franklin > NutDriver Racing > http://NutDriver.org > Facebook "NutDriver Racing" > Sponsored by Murphy > There is no generic TS in the US military classification system. Anything that deserves a TS designation also receives another designation which indicates the subset of persons who can actually have access to that information. TK was one such designation which a relatively large number of people had access to; some access codes might restrict the information to only a few hundred people.
I was with my boss once in a special facility, having a discussion about intelligence processing. I had been working there for a few days, it had been verified that I had all of the proper clearances and access for the topic(s). So my boss comes in at the end of the week for a summary of our discussions. The briefer decided, on his own, to be nice to the visiting VIP, and launched into deep background on some of the systems we had been talking about through the week. It took about 3 minutes before my boss and I realized where the guy was going and to get him to stop; he hadn't realized that my boss didn't have proper access to that information. He had assumed that since this visitor was my boss (and of course I had the access), was an important high-ranking VIP, and was someone who had access to the special facility, then he must have had access to a broader range of information. Wrong assumption. Really dumb move - it could have gotten him thrown out of the Army. As it was we wasted about an hour while forms were filled out and memos filed and superiors consulted. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
