As to the name itself, âstarboardâ, this comes from the Anglo-Saxon name for this side steering oar, âsteorbordâ, which literally means âthe side on which a vessel is steeredâ.
(1)Top Secret. Top Secret refers to national security information or material which requires the highest degree of protection. The test for assigning Top Secret classification is whether its unauthorized disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.
The desired degree of secrecy about such information is known as its sensitivity. Sensitivity is based upon a calculation of the damage to national security that the release of the information would cause. The United States has three levels of classification: Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret.n example of a U.S. classified document; page 13 of a United States National Security Agency report on the USS Liberty incident, partially declassified and released to the public in July 2003.