[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Reading Clancy. Ran into this:

Background is a courier dispatch from Moscow to us/CIA for an urgent request involving a Russian who wants to defect...
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5:5 meant that the estimated importance of the information available, as well as its presumed accuracy and the priority for his proposed action, was class-5, the highest

[Disestablishmentarian]

5:5 meant that the estimated importance of the information available, as well as its presumed accuracy and the priority for his proposed action, was class-5, the highest.

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Good catch Cletus.

BEST EXPLANATION YET for 5:5.

Could you possibly provide the full Clancy citation (Book & page#)?

Thanks.