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NAVLEGSVCCOMINST 5800.3A. The report is sent
to Code 63 to arrive not later than the 15th day of the
following month.
SECURITY
As an LN, you will be required to work with clas-
sified information; however, your involvement with it
will be minimal. There may be court-martial trials and
investigations in which classified information is in-
volved and possibly admitted in evidence as exhibits.
There will also be incoming and outgoing routine clas-
sified documents that are necessary to the conduct of
official business. You should become familiar with the
procedures that have been established by your office
and command for the proper security of your office
space. Even though most of the files, records, and
documents you will be required to work with are not
classified, many of them contain sensitive information
and care should be taken to make sure these materials
are properly safeguarded.
Remember, as an LN you are considered to be
working in a position of high trust and confidence. The
unauthorized disclosure of sensitive and/or confidential
information about a legal assistance client, investiga-
tion, or court-martial can be detrimental to the client,
the investigation or court-martial, and to the reliability
of your office. Communications between an attorney
and client are privileged to anyone unless the client
consents to the disclosure. When you are working for
an attorney, you are also bound by this privilege. Spe-
cific procedures for the safeguarding of such materials
as evidence, records of trial and investigations, and
legal assistance files are discussed in those chapters that
pertain to these topics.
In addition to those procedures for properly main-
taining the security of your office, you may occasion-
ally have to handle classified material. These occasions
will normally occur only when you are working with an
investigation or a trial in which classified information
may be involved, either in testimony or as documentary
evidence. Familiarize yourself with the Department of
the Navy Information and Personnel Security Program
Regulaton, SECNAVINST 5510.1H, if you are re-
quired to handle classified material.
PURPOSE
Basic to a security education program is the appre-
ciation that there
information from
Information and
is a need for protecting classified
hostile threats. The purpose of the
Personnel Security Program is to
protect against the dissemination of information that is
essential to national security. In an open society, such
as that of the United States, disclosure outside autho-
rized channels is tantamount to disclosure to a hostile
intelligence service.
The purpose of the security education program is to
make sure all personnel understand the need to protect
classified information and know how to safeguard it.
The goal is to develop fundamental habits of security to
the point that proper discretion is automatically exer-
cised in the discharge of duties and that the security of
classified information becomes a natural element of
every task.
RESPONSIBILITY, MAINTENANCE,
AND SAFEGUARDING
The Chief of Naval Operations (OP-09N) is respon-
sible for policy guidance, education requirements, and
source support for the security education program.
Commanding officers, through their security managers,
are responsible for security education in their command
and for making sure it is afforded a significant share of
the time dedicated to command security training.
Classified information or material will be used only
when there are proper facilities or under conditions
adequate to prevent unauthorized persons from gaining
access to it. To the extent possible, classified holdings
will be consolidatcd to limit the areas where it will be
used. Anyone who has possession of classified material
is responsible for safeguarding it at all times and par-
ticularly for locking classified material in appropriate
security containers whenever it is not in use or under
direct supervision of authorizd persons. The custodian
must follow procedures that will guarantee unautho-
rized persons do not gain access to classified informa-
tion by sight or sound or other means. Classified infor-
mation will not be discussed with or in the presence of
unauthorized persons. During working hours, the fol-
lowing precautions will be taken to prevent access to
classified information for unauthorized persons:
l When classified documents are removed from
storage for working purposes, they will be kept under
constant surveillance and facedown or covered when
not in use. Cover sheets are Standard Forms 703, 704,
and 705 for, respectively, Top Secret, Secret, and Con-
fidential documents.
. Classified information will be discussed only
when an unauthorized persons cannot overhear the dis-
cussion. Particular care should be taken when there are
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