Instructions

for the

Administration of the Naval Establishment

of the United States.

(Naval Instructions.)

1913.

The following instructions for the administration of the Naval Establishment of the United States (Naval Instructions) are issued for the guidance of the naval service as to the detailed methods to be employed in carrying out the provisions of the current edition of the Navy Regulations.

Changes in or corrections to these instructions will be issued from time to time as may be necessary. When of a minor nature, corrections will be made to the text as it stands, by insertions, changes or removals; when of considerable length, new pages will be issued; these shall be inserted in the binder to replace the designated pages, which latter need not be preserved.

G. v. L. MEYER,

Secretary of the Navy.

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CHAPTER 1.

ADMINISTRATION OF THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.

SECTION 1.-OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

1. (1) The Office of Naval Intelligence shall keep a record of all naval information furnished by the Navy Department to foreign naval administrations, and of all similar information furnished by foreign naval administrations to the Navy Department.

(2) To relieve foreign ambassadors and ministers from some degree of formal correspondence, foreign naval attachés are authorized to communicate directly with the Office of Naval Intelligence. Further authorization of communication is not given, since it is desirable, for the maintenance of a correct record, that there shall be only a single channel of communication. Professional visits to the Navy Department by foreign naval attachés, excepting the usual visits of courtesy, are expected to be made at the Office of Naval Intelligence.

(3) Chiefs of bureau and other department officers desiring information from foreign Governments, shall obtain the same by means of a memorandum of the required information furnished to the Director of Naval Intelligence.

(4) Information for attachés or other foreign officials in Washington or abroad shall be furnished through the Office of Naval Intelligence.

(5) All correspondence with United States naval attachés shall be under the direction of the Office of Naval Intelligence.

(6) By the term "information" as employed in this article is meant all information of value, either printed, written, or verbal. (7) All reports and letters from naval attachés shall be addressed to the Navy Department, Office of Naval Intelligence, which office shall, without delay, furnish the several bureaus and offices of the department with such information in regard to such reports and letters as may be of interest to them.

(8) Receipt shall be required and given for papers taken from the files of the Office of Naval Intelligence for the use of bureaus

and offices.

(9) When information of special professional interest is received by any bureau or office of the department, a memorandum of the same shall be furnished the Office of Naval Intelligence, in order that all such information may be registered and carded in that office for future reference, and that requests may not be made to foreign Governments for information already in possession of the Navy Department.

(10) Under no circumstances shall any information relative to submarine vessels be made public.

SECTION 2.-OFFICERS ORDERED TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY.

Exchange of Information with

foreign officials.

How orders

6. (1) No officer of the Navy or of the Marine Corps shall proceed to a foreign country on special duty connected with the shall be issued. service except under orders prepared by the Bureau of Naviga