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green door

green door noun: the barrier between compartmentalized intelligence information and those without access to it, especially military personnel who may need it.

Noun

green door (uncountable)

  1. The barrier between compartmentalized intelligence information and those without access to it, especially military personnel who may need it.
    • While this cannot be done in all cases, no commander should accept the notion that whole blocks of intelligence are permanently behind a special “green door” until his intelligence officer has carefully examined the regulations.1976, Michael T. Chase, “All-Source Intelligence”, in Military Review: Professional Journal of the U.S. Army, volume LVI, number 7, page 45
    • The so-called “green door”, behind which intelligence is alleged to hoard its secrets has always been, and forever will be, a problem. […] Arranging for dissemination of a specific, known product is relatively easy—it’s the products you don’t know about that the green door hides.1995, Douglas H. Dearth, R. Thomas Goodden, Strategic Intelligence: Theory and Application, second edition, page 66-67

Questions about green door

What does green door mean?
Green door means the barrier between compartmentalized intelligence information and those without access to it, especially military personnel who may need it.
What part of speech is green door?
Green door is a noun.

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