while employed, and at termination of employment. The lecture and procedural guides
are media most heavily relied upon, and are augmented by motion pictures, reminder
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cards, posters, ‘and other such aids.
It has been recognized that in SFO, as in AEC as a whole, the security education
field offers opportunity for considerable improvementin the effectiveness of the entire
security program. There are recurring problems of non-compliance with security requirements, on organizational as well as individual levels, arising from unfamiliarity
or unawareness of these requirements as applied to specific activities. Plans were begun in 1953 for an SFO-coordinated program with the following principal target areas:
Contractor Organizations -- Clear specification of contractual security
obligations. Precise explanations, on a continuing standard practice basis, of
applicability of GM and SF regulations to specific contractor operations and
activities.
Contractor and AEC Employees -- Increased effort toward assuring that
each individual is informed and kept aware of his security obligations and the
particular requirements of his position.
Responsibility ~- Definite and’specific assignment to supervisors of
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responsibility to take positive action to assure familiarity with security requirements of all personnel. Such assignment of responsibility to be made
by written directive, as an integral part of the SFO security education pro-
gram.
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ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL
On July 1, 1950, the Office of Assistant General Counsel had its main office in Los
Alamos where there were seven attorneys, two of whom were assigned to work on Los
Alamos community affairs exclusively. One additional attorney lived in Los Angeles where
he served as counsel to the Los Angeles Area Office. The position in Los Angeles was
abolished in April 1951, the work being handled thereafter by the Los Alamos office. In
the Summer of 1951, the work of the office at Los Alamos was divided between two attorneys assigned exclusively to Los Alamos Field Office problems and the remaining attorneys assigned exclusively to Santa Fe Operations problems. In October 1951, the latter
attorneys moved to Albuquerque, leaving the two attorneys in Los Alamos. With one ex-
ception to be noted later, the two offices have continued to function on the basis of this
division, and on June 30, 1953, there were seven attorneys in the Office of Assistant GenWha
eral Counsel and four attorneys in the Counsel's office at Los Alamos.
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Otherwise, the work of the Office of Assistant General Counsel is not extensively
compartmentalized.
One or two attorneys in the Albuquerque office are assigned as coun-
sel to each field office other than the Los Alamos Field Office. The same is true with respect to each office and division in the Santa Fe Operations Office. In addition to these
_. assignments there are several assignments by subject matter in fields so specialized that
day-to-day contact is a prerequisite to the efficient handling of problems in such fields as
taxation, suretyship, and construction contracts and appeals. The policy of the office is
to avoid, where possible, rigid compartmentalization on the basis of subject matter due
to the frequent necessity, in a small office such as this, of assigning all attorneys to problems in each of the various fields at various times.
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