What is the name of a security classification in the US that is higher than: Top Secrete and Black Ops?

[James]

Special Forces is not a classification, it is a unit in the Army. Top Secret is a classification. Two completely different things.

Your Marine buddy if full of s**t. No question about it.

Finally, that red squiggly line under half of what you type? That means the word is misspelled. Don't post misspelled words or people will think you're a moron.

The end.

[Tom B]

There are 3 levels of Security Classifications in the Military - and only 3.

Confidential
Secret
Top Secret

However, along with a "Security Clearance" a person is given an Access Level and if a person doesn't have the need to know or access something they can not. (ie. Just because somebody has a Top Secret Clearance does not mean that they have access to Nuclear Launch Codes.....)

- "Black Ops", "Special Forces" and "Special Ops" are NOT Security Classifications, they are names and slang terms for people that are trained and sometimes used for Covert Operations and other than the above explanation YOU don't have the "need to know" who has what Level of Clearance/Access or why.

- and I concur, your "Friend" is talking crap.....

[caspian88]

There is no such classification - Top Secret is the highest classification, and there is no need for anything above that.

In addition, there is no job in the world that requires the person to officially "die." That's a fiction made up by bad writers and bad filmmakers to justify creating totally unrealistic stories.

[Michael]

NOTHING is higher than a TOP SECRET Clearance.

There are restricted access compartmentalized additions to the TOP SECRET. For instances, as a Navy Airborne Electronic Warfare Officer I held a TS/SCI and was a TS/SCI Classified Material Courier.

Other EWOs in my squadron held more specific compartmentalized clearances and our Air Intelligence Officer held more specific compartmentalized clearances than anyone in the squadron.

Simply, if anyone talks about any clearance that is "above STOP SECRET" they are blowing smoke up your a**.

[Asher]

you are an idiot

[gugliamo00]

A security clearance doesn't allow you access to "everything" within that level of clearance. There's a concept in the military known as "Need to Know." That refers to stuff you need to know to do your job. It excludes a lot of stuff you might think "it would be cool" to know.

You might be surprised to know that guys with a TS... even a Secret... clearance are careful what they access. If a piece of information leaks, and if I'm aware of the information, and if I don't need it to do my job, I could be considered suspect. I could lose my clearance... at least until the matter is cleared up.

Much of the stuff that involves Special Warfare never happens... and it never happens in places nobody was ever sent. Officially, nobody admits it ever occurred.

The media aren't privy to anything classified... in spite of their apparent presumption that a "Press Pass" equates to TS. The stuff they get is stuff usually about missions that go really badly and some of our guys get killed. They also get stuff leaked by idiot politicians who "let slip" the information hoping to ride the success of a mission to bolster their sagging political polls. And a few missions are kind of "high profile" and the enemy isn't going to keep it quiet... so the government releases it.

With the passage of time, some things are declassified. These find their way into books and movies.

The rest of what you hear, read, or see is concocted for public consumption. It's generated to create your interest in listening, reading, or watching a little longer... at least until after the commercials.

[capitalgentleman]

Top Secret is the highest classification level. However, there are compartments. So, access to certain information would be limited to only those who need it. This would be written Top Secret Handle Via _________ Channels Only, or, something like that.

People who just do fighting don't need the highest level clearances. People in the Intelligence field do. There are quite a few different sorts of clearances in the Intelligence field.