letter-writers specifically requested the recipients to avoid
mentioning the fact that they had received the communications
~- a point which would indicate that some of the violations were
made deliberately in disregard of existing security instructions.
10, The Commander, Joint Task Force Seven,
in a letter
dated 24 March 1953 to the Chief of Staff, United States Army,
a copy of which was furnished to the Commission and circulated
as AEC 597/12, noted the many problems involved in a censorship
program and recommended that ". .. the policy of self-censorship
of personal mail be continued without recourse to official censorship backed up by an intensified security indoctrination and
security education and examination program."
In this connection,
representatives of the Commancer, Joint Task Force Seven have
submitted to the Division of Security an outline of the proposed
JTF-7 security indoctrination plan.
Under this plan each Task
Group Commander of the Joint Task Force is responsible to assure
that each individual member of his Task Group 18 aware of security responsibilities inherent in his assigned duties.
Along
with other general security guidance in this memorandum, there
is included specific instructions as to what personnel of the
Task Force may and may not include in personal correspondence,
The instructions further require that each member of the Task
Force be given an “open book" security examination in which a
score of 100% is required,
Each individual will be required to
re-study and re-submit his examination until a score of 100%
is attained.
Apart from these procedures,
the regulations of
the Commander require that even more detailed instructions be
given to individuals who in the normal course of duty will be
required to handle classified matter,
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Appendix "A"