[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 1, Parts 1 to 190]
[Revised as of July 1, 1998]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR159a.69]

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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
              CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
 
PART 159a--INFORMATION SECURITY PROGRAM REGULATION--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart K--Security Education
 
Sec. 159a.69  Scope and principles.

    The security education program shall include all personnel 
authorized or expected to be authorized access to classified 
information. Each DoD Component shall design its program to fit the 
requirements of different groups of personnel. Care must be exercised to 
assure that the program does not evolve into a perfunctory compliance 
with formal requirements without achieving

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the real goals of the program. The program shall, as a minimum, be 
designed to:
    (a) Advise personnel of the adverse effects to the national security 
that could result from unauthorized disclosure and of their personal, 
moral, and legal responsibility to protect classified information within 
their knowledge, possession, or control;
    (b) Indoctrinate personnel in the principles, criteria, and 
procedures for the classification, downgrading, declassification, 
marking, control and accountability, storage, destruction, and 
transmission of classified information and material, as prescribed in 
this Regulation, and alert them to the strict prohibitions against 
improper use and abuse of the classification system;
    (c) Familiarize personnel with procedures for challenging 
classification descisions believed to be improper;
    (d) Familiarize personnel with the security requirements of their 
particular assignment;
    (e) Inform personnel of the techniques employed by foreign 
intelligence activities in attempting to obtain classified information, 
and their responsibility to report such attempts;
    (f) Advise personnel of the penalties for engaging in espionage 
activities;
    (g) Advise personnel of the strict prohibition against discussing 
classified information over an unsecure telephone or in any other manner 
that permits interception by unauthorized persons;
    (h) Inform personnel of the penalties for violation or disregard of 
the provisions of this part (see Sec. 159a.97(b));
    (i) Instruct personnel that individuals having knowledge, 
possession, or control of classified information must determine, before 
disseminating such information, that the prospective recipient has been 
cleared for access by competent authority; needs the information in 
order to perform his or her official duties; and can properly protect 
(or store) the information.