NATO RESTRICTED

The United States does not have a security classification equivalent to NATO RESTRICTED. NATO messages classified as restricted must be safeguarded in a manner similar to that for FOUO messages. Messages originated by NATO must be handled in accordance with NATO Security Procedures (U), OPNAVINST C5510.101.

ALLIED RESTRICTED

The United States does not have a security classification equivalent to ALLIED RESTRICTED. However, these messages must be handled in the same manner as Confidential messages. U.S.-originated messages containing ALLIED RESTRICTED information are marked as "Confidential" immediately following the security classification.

The Security Manual contains complete information on paragraph, subparagraph, and document markings.

HANDLING AND STORAGE OF CLASSIFIED MATERIAL

Classified messages must be provided accounting and control procedures that correspond to their assigned classification. Accounting and control of classified messages serve the following functions:

Limit dissemination;

Prevent unnecessary reproduction; and

Determine the office or person normally responsible for the security of the material.

With Top Secret messages, it is also important to keep a current record of who has the information and who has seen it.

Since distinctions are made among the three levels of classification, distinctions are also made in the degree of accountability and control. Within each command, specific control and accountability procedures are established to ensure that classified material is properly controlled and that access is limited only to cleared personnel.

SECURITY PERSONNEL

To control classified information with maximum efficiency, the commanding officer designates a security manager, usually an officer. The security manager is responsible for the command's overall security program, which includes the security of classified information, personnel security, and the command's security education program.

In addition, the commanding officer usually appoints a Top Secret Control Officer (TSCO). The TSCO is responsible for the receipt, custody, accounting, and disposition of Top Secret material in the command. The TSCO is normally subordinate to the security manager. If a separate person is not designated as the TSCO, the security manager maybe designated as TSCO. The duties of the security manager and the TSCO are outlined in the Security Manual.

Besides the security manager and the TSCO, every command involved in processing data in an automated system must designate an Information System Security Officer (ISSO). The ISSO is responsible to the security manager for the protection of classified information processed in the automated system.

Custody of Classified Material

An individual who has possession of or is charged with the responsibility for safeguarding and accounting for classified material or information is the "custodian" of that material or information. As a Radioman, you are constantly in possession of classified material, including messages, publications, and equipment. Therefore, you are a custodian of classified material as long as the material is in your possession.

As custodian of classified material, you are responsible for protecting and accounting for the material at all times. You must ensure that the material is protected from disclosure to uncleared personnel, such as a visitor being escorted through your working spaces. If working outside of normal communication spaces, you must ensure that classified material is locked in an approved security container when the material is not in use or under direct supervision.

CARE DURING WORKING HOURS.- Every Radioman must take the necessary precautions to prevent access to classified information by unauthorized persons. These precautions include:

When removed from storage for working purposes, classified documents must be kept under constant surveillance or face down or covered when not in use.

Preliminary drafts, carbon sheets, plates, stencils, notes, work sheets, and all similar items containing classified information require special precautions. They must be either destroyed immediately after they have served their purpose or given the same classification and safeguarded in the same manner as the classified material produced from them.

Typewriter ribbons used in typing classified material must be protected in the same manner as the highest level of classification for which they have been used. Fabric typewriter ribbons may be considered as unclassified when both the upper and lower sections have been recycled through the machine five times in the course of regular typing. Those ribbons that are classified must be destroyed as classified waste.