HR 11566 · 94th Congress · Armed Forces and National Security
A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code to make it a Federal crime to identify publicly any U.S. undercover agent.
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EnactedLatest: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.(1976-01-28)
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Declares that whoever, without stipulated official approval, knowingly and willfully causes or conspires to cause the public identification of a United States undercover agent as such shall be fined not more than $10,000 and/or imprisoned for not less than ten nor more than twenty years. Defines "United States undercover agent" as a person engaged by the Central Intelligence Agency for the conduct of undercover intelligence gathering operations outside the United States. Declares it the sense of the Congress that the Department of State should take appropriate action to conceal the identities of Central Intelligence Agency agents who are assigned to the embassies of the United States to foreign nations. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 2392)…
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