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briefing took most the day and appeared to be quite

successful. Two days later I was called into a Secure
Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) and had the
following conversation with the manager of that program:

>Manager: “During your part of the briefing given two
days ago to that unnamed group you committed a security
violation!

>Me: “I don’t understand – the meeting was held at the
Secret level and all our information was properly

marked.”

>Manager: “Even so, you said something that was
beyond the security level you were briefing.”

>Me: So, always being very security conscious, and

having absolutely no idea what I might have said, I asked:
“What was it I said that constituted the violation so it

would not happen again?”

>Manager: looking at me sternly “I cannot tell you what

you said that was a violation because you’re not cleared
into that particular program!!”