Top Secret Special clearances

Dear New Zealand Security Intelligence Service,

I was reading your annual report for 2011, and included in there
were the level of security clearances. These were, confidential,
secret, top secret, and top secret special. I was intrigued by the
concept of "top secret special" security clearances, as I couldn't
find any mention of them in your vetting documentation
(http://www.nzsis.govt.nz/pdf/Vetting_for...). So, I would
like to request some information under the Official Information Act
about them. I would like to request:

a) what a top secret special security clearance enables you to do
that a "top secret" security clearance won't satisfy for
b) the job title of each current holder of a top secret special
security clearance, and the agency that they work for
c) how the vetting for a top secret special security clearance
differs from the vetting for other security clearances

Feel free to contact me if you want me to clarify my request. I
would prefer an electronic response sent to this email address.

Any emails sent in response to this request will be automatically
posted on the FYI.org.nz website, so please *do not* sign email
responses with any name due to s13A of the NZSIS Act.

Yours faithfully,

Joshua Grainger

Dear New Zealand Security Intelligence Service,

The deadline for replying to my Official Information Act request on
Top Secret Special requests passed on the 12th of July. Can I
please have an update on the status of my request?

Yours faithfully,

Joshua Grainger

Dear New Zealand Security Intelligence Service,

No, I have not recieved that letter. Would you mind please
attaching the letter to an email and sending it to this address?

Yours faithfully,

Joshua Grainger

Dear New Zealand Security Intelligence Service,

Thank you very much for your reply. I was wondering if you could
explain the reasons why the job titles of those currently holding
Top Secret Special security clearances was withheld under s6(a).

As the Ombudsmen Guidelines state: "It is not sufficient to simply
assert that disclosure of the information will have a prejudicial
effect. The public sector agency must be able to identify, with
sufficient particularity, the nature of the prejudicial effect and
explain how such prejudice will occur in order to meet the tests
for withholding in section 6."

As such I was hoping you could disclose what the prejudicial effect
would be, and how such prejudice would occur.

Yours faithfully,

Joshua Grainger