§ 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 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 § 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.