(2) Original Top Secret classification authority may be delegated only by the President an agency head or official designated pursuant to Section 1.2(a)(2) and the senior official designated under Section 5.3(a)(1), 2 provided that official has been delegated original Top Secret classification authority by the agency head. Agency heads are responsible for ensuring that designated subordinate officials have a demonstrable and continuing need to exercise this authority. (1) Delegations of original classification authority shall be limited to the minimum required to administer this Order. (d) Delegation of Original Classification Authority. (2) officials with original Top Secret or Secret classification authority and (c) Confidential. The authority to classify information originally as Confidential may be exercised only by: (3) officials delegated such authority pursuant to Section 1.2(d). (2) officials with original Top Secret classification authority and (1) agency heads and officials designated by the President in the Federal Register (b) Secret. The authority to classify information originally as Secret may be exercised only by:
(3) officials delegated this authority pursuant to Section 1.2(d). (2) agency heads and officials designated by the President in the Federal Register and (a) Top Secret. The authority to classify information originally as Top Secret may be exercised only by: If there is reasonable doubt about the appropriate level of classification, it shall be safeguarded at the higher level of classification pending a determination by an original classification authority, who shall make this determination within thirty (30) days. (c) If there is reasonable doubt about the need to classify information, it shall be safeguarded as if it were classified pending a determination by an original classification authority, who shall make this determination within thirty (30) days. (b) Except as otherwise provided by statute, no other terms shall be used to identify classified information.
(3) "Confidential" shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause damage to the national security. (2) "Secret" shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause serious damage to the national security. (1) "Top Secret" shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security. (a) National security information (hereinafter "classified information") shall be classified at one of the following three levels: NOW, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Information may not be classified under this Order unless its disclosure reasonably could be expected to cause damage to the national security. It recognizes that it is essential that the public be informed concerning the activities of its Government, but that the interests of the United States and its citizens require that certain information concerning the national defense and foreign relations be protected against unauthorized disclosure. This Order prescribes a uniform system for classifying, declassifying, and safeguarding national security information. Source: The provisions of Executive Order 12356 of Apr.
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