DOE describes a Q authorisation as “equivalent to Top Secret … with a Q an individual can be given access to Top Secret National Security Information if his or her duties require it.”
“If you have a current, Top-Secret security clearance … The access authorisation will be granted based on ‘reciprocity’: the principle that a security clearance or access authorisation at the same level granted by any authorised Federal agency must be recognised and accepted by all other agencies,” DOE explains....<<<Read More>>>...