# The Architecture of Secrecy

A hidden operation persists by dividing knowledge before it can divide accountability.

- Type: curated historical and symbolic lineage
- Inquiry Domain: power-control

## Path

1. **Classification** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-systems-classification--sfoc-systems-need-to-know`
2. **Need to Know** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-systems-need-to-know--sfoc-systems-compartmentalization`
3. **Compartmentalization** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-systems-compartmentalization--sfoc-programs-special-access-program`
4. **Special Access Program** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-programs-special-access-program--sfoc-programs-waived-sap`
5. **Waived SAP** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-programs-waived-sap--sfoc-programs-black-project`
6. **Black Project** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-programs-black-project--sfoc-programs-crash-retrieval-program`
7. **Crash Retrieval Program** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-programs-crash-retrieval-program--sfoc-programs-reverse-engineering-program`
8. **Reverse Engineering Program** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-programs-reverse-engineering-program--sfoc-events-breakthrough`
9. **Breakthrough**

## Reading

- Forward: Read as an unfolding sequence in which each threshold creates the problem addressed by the next.
- Reverse: Read as an integration path that traces a present condition back toward its enabling assumptions.
- Diagnostic: Stop where the sequence first feels implausible; that seam names the contested transition.
