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Unless you're in intelligence an officer's basic clearance is only Secret. But the point stands. One of the people I've provided personal references for a TS/SCI first did work for the National Reconnaissance Office (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office): "The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), located in Chantilly, Virginia, is one of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies and considered, along with the CIA, NSA, DIA and NGA, to be one of the "big five" U.S. Intelligence agencies. It designs, builds, and operates the spy satellites of the United States government, and coordinates the analysis of aerial surveillance and satellite imagery from several intelligence and military agencies." 3,000 direct employees, plus many contractors like the above mentioned friend. Is the NRO any bigger because of 9/11 et. al.? Probably somewhat, but not all that much I suspect given how much they were doing before it. What he was doing was just supporting their general efforts. (His following jobs? Well, as usual I can tell you what technology they used, but nothing about them, they're more sensitive, so maybe he became part of this growing post-9/11 "hidden world".) |