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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Ultra -vs- Magic
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Date: 8 Oct 90 03:07:39 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: kulkisar@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Aaron Kulkis)
>... during WW2, they wanted a new classification for all of the info
>that the crypto guys were giving them...between Top Secret and Eyes Only
>and the new name was Ultra Secret...

Don't know if the situation in the US was the same as in Britain, but the
British designation for Ultra Secret material was "Top Secret U".  This
obscured the existence of the extra level of classification:  anyone who
didn't know what the "U" meant would just think this was Top Secret with
some mysterious secondary qualifier.
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