THE CRIME OF NEGLLGENCE IN PROTECTION OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION

Scientific improvement has affected and changed all aspects of human life including the circumstance, type and the manner of crimes perpetration. One of the most important crimes that, considerably, its manner of commitment has been complicated and various is “espionage “and its related crimes. One of the approximate new methods that enemies have employed for gathering the information against Islamic Republic is named “elicitation“. For increasing the use of this method, legislator concerned about it and in 1375, for increasing the care and attention of governmental official in protection of the classified information, considered their negligence in this area as “elicitation “crime. But the way of writing and arranging the statute cause some difficulties and ambiguities. In this paper, we refer to the history of the subject and define the crime and analyse its relative legal rules.