Investigating the role of message function in promoting counterintelligence awareness

The Armed Forces are always exposed to various security threats due to their key role in ensuring the security of the country, Dealing with such threats within the armed forces is entrusted to the security unit. The security unit's response to the threats takes two main forms. One form of it is a reactionary and typically coercive approach in the form of arresting and expelling violating elements, which, in addition to being costly, is contrary to the philosophy and mission of the security unit and should be kept to a minimum, Another form is to take various measures, including raising the awareness of employees, which in addition to reducing the overt and covert costs, is also more compatible with the beliefs and views of Islam. According to the above, one of the main challenges of the Armed Forces Security Unit is how to raise awareness of the protected complex about the threats and damage to the complex and Since the main communication unit of the security unit with the collection is protection through awareness, information and warning, in all these communication channels, a factor plays a key role and that is the message. Therefore, considering the importance of the elements of the message in raising awareness and advancing security goals, the research is conducted with the aim of "examining the structure and function of the message to promote anti-intelligence awareness”.

This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of method and implementation. First, a library study is performed to understand the structure and function of the message and the indicators of organizational awareness and the factors affecting it and Then, with the method of qualitative, inductive-contextual content analysis, the role of the message in counter-  intelligence awareness is analyzed.

In this research, general and specific functions of the message have been identified in order to raise awareness in two stages by presenting a mode.