I listened to it while walking this morning. I had very little background in the NCO duty assignment process, and none for the time period he discussed. The Air Force Station he identified was real, and I can believe there was an underground ops center that close to the USSR. The radar capability (able to read a Russian pilot's name tag in his a/c) he described was BS. Always be leery of anyone who tries to impress you with his level of clearance. You never disclose your security clearance level outside of official channels. Even if he had a TS he would not have been able to walk in to any classified facility as he said, everything is on a "need to know" basis. The guest wasn't credible.
A caller asked a question that has always has puzzled me. I spent a fair portion of my career black, and I don't remember ever signing a national security nondisclosure agreement for a specific assignment for the DoD. The consequences of violating your clearance are explain once it's granted, and when you are read into a specific program or job, it's laid out in detail what is classified and to what level. You are also debriefed when leaving a black program. As a DoD member, I did sign nondisclosure agreements at contractors facilities to protect their proprietary information, but violating those agreements would have resulted in civil, not criminal, actions.
The closest I came to a DoD NDA was signing forms prior to participating in/conducting source selections agreeing not to use information gained in the course of my job to financially benefit personally. We also had to fill out a financial disclosure package every couple years, spelling out investments for both my wife and me. For example, I would not have been permitted to hold a position from which I could influence or direct contractual actions of a contractor if I owned stock in that company or had a family member working for that contractor.
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