'X' 3. SECURITY CLASSIFICATIONS CONFIDENTIAL THE COMMITTEE considered a minute by the Secretary+ Informing them that the United States Secretary of Defence had recently approved revised definitions and lists of examples of security classifications which differed slightly from those agreed by the Combined Chiefs of Staff in 1944*. The Sub-Committee on Security had suggested that it should be recommended to the Inter-Departmental Committee on Security that a Working Party should be set up to consider the whole question of definitions and examples of security classifications in view of the changed conditions since they were agreed by the Combined Chiefs of Staff in 1944 and two points in particular, the divergence between the United States revised definitions of "Confidential" and "Restricted" and our own, and the difficulties caused by the use of the grading "Confidential" for both security and administrative purposes.