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18 U.S.C. § 219 — Officers and employees acting as agents of foreign principals
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**(a)** Whoever, being a public official, is or acts as an agent of a foreign principal required to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 or a lobbyist required to register under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 in connection with the representation of a foreign entity, as defined in section 3(6) of that Act shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.
**(b)** Nothing in this section shall apply to the employment of any agent of a foreign principal as a special Government employee in any case in which the head of the employing agency certifies that such employment is required in the national interest. A copy of any certification under this paragraph shall be forwarded by the head of such agency to the Attorney General who shall cause the same to be filed with the registration statement and other documents filed by such agent, and made available for public inspection in accordance with section 6 of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended.
**(c)** For the purpose of this section “public official” means Member of Congress, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, either before or after he has qualified, or an officer or employee or person acting for or on behalf of the United States, or any department, agency, or branch of Government thereof, including the District of Columbia, in any official function, under or by authority of any such department, agency, or branch of Government.
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**(a)** Whoever, being a public official, is or acts as an agent of a foreign principal required to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 or a lobbyist required to register under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 in connection with the representation of a foreign entity, as defined in section 3(6) of that Act shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.
**(b)** Nothing in this section shall apply to the employment of any agent of a foreign principal as a special Government employee in any case in which the head of the employing agency certifies that such employment is required in the national interest. A copy of any certification under this paragraph shall be forwarded by the head of such agency to the Attorney General who shall cause the same to be filed with the registration statement and other documents filed by such agent, and made available for public inspection in accordance with section 6 of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended.
**(c)** For the purpose of this section “public official” means Member of Congress, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, either before or after he has qualified, or an officer or employee or person acting for or on behalf of the United States, or any department, agency, or branch of Government thereof, including the District of Columbia, in any official function, under or by authority of any such department, agency, or branch of Government.
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**(a) Permanent copy of statement; inspection; withdrawal** The Attorney General shall retain in permanent form one copy of all registration statements furnished under this subchapter, and the same shall be public records and open to public examination and inspection at such reasonable hours, under such regulations, as the Attorney General may prescribe, and copies of the same shall be furnished to every applicant at such reasonable fee as the Attorney General may prescribe. The Attorney General may withdraw from public examination the registration statement and other statements of any agent of a foreign principal whose activities have ceased to be of a character which requires registration under the provisions of this subchapter.
**(b) Secretary of State** The Attorney General shall, promptly upon receipt, transmit one copy of every registration statement filed hereunder and one copy of every amendment or supplement thereto filed hereunder, to the Secretary of State for such comment and use as the Secretary of State may determine to be appropriate from the point of view of the foreign relations of the United States. Failure of the Attorney General so to transmit such copy shall not be a bar to prosecution under this subchapter.
**(c) Executive departments and agencies; Congressional committees** The Attorney General is authorized to furnish to departments and agencies in the executive branch and committees of the Congress such information obtained by him in the administration of this subchapter, including the names of registrants under this subchapter, copies of registration statements, or parts thereof, or other documents or information filed under this subchapter, as may be appropriate in the light of the purposes of this subchapter.
**(d) Public database of regis
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The Congress finds that—
(1) responsible representative Government requires public awareness of the efforts of paid lobbyists to influence the public decisionmaking process in both the legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government;
(2) existing lobbying disclosure statutes have been ineffective because of unclear statutory language, weak administrative and enforcement provisions, and an absence of clear guidance as to who is required to register and what they are required to disclose; and
(3) the effective public disclosure of the identity and extent of the efforts of paid lobbyists to influence Federal officials in the conduct of Government actions will increase public confidence in the integrity of Government.
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As used in and for the purposes of this subchapter—
**(a)** The term “person” includes an individual, partnership, association, corporation, organization, or any other combination of individuals;
**(b)** The term “foreign principal” includes—
(1) a government of a foreign country and a foreign political party;
(2) a person outside of the United States, unless it is established that such person is an individual and a citizen of and domiciled within the United States, or that such person is not an individual and is organized under or created by the laws of the United States or of any State or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and has its principal place of business within the United States; and
(3) a partnership, association, corporation, organization, or other combination of persons organized under the laws of or having its principal place of business in a foreign country.
**(c)** Expect 11 So in original. Probably should be “Except”. as provided in subsection (d) of this section, the term “agent of a foreign principal” means—
(1) any person who acts as an agent, representative, employee, or servant, or any person who acts in any other capacity at the order, request, or under the direction or control, of a foreign principal or of a person any of whose activities are directly or indirectly supervised, directed, controlled, financed, or subsidized in whole or in major part by a foreign principal, and who directly or through any other person—
(i) engages within the United States in political activities for or in the interests of such foreign principal;
(ii) acts within the United States as a public relations counsel, publicity agent, information-service employee or political consultant for or in the interests of such foreign principal
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**(a) In General.—** The Secretary of Defense shall administer the Department of Defense Regional Centers for Security Studies in accordance with this section as international venues for bilateral and multilateral research, communication, exchange of ideas, and training involving military and civilian participants.
**(b) Regional Centers Specified.—**
(1) A Department of Defense Regional Center for Security Studies is a Department of Defense institution that—
(A) is operated, and designated as such, by the Secretary of Defense for the study of security issues relating to a specified geographic region of the world; and
(B) serves as a forum for bilateral and multilateral research, communication, exchange of ideas, and training involving military and civilian participants.
(2) The Department of Defense Regional Centers for Security Studies are the following:
(A) The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, established in 1993 and located in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
(B) The Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, established in 1995 and located in Honolulu, Hawaii.
(C) The William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, established in 1997 and located in Washington, D.C.
(D) The Africa Center for Strategic Studies, established in 1999 and located in Washington, D.C.
(E) The Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, established in 2000 and located in Washington, D.C.
(F) The Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies, established in 2021 and located in Anchorage, Alaska.
(3) No institution or element of the Department of Defense may be designated as a Department of Defense Regional Center for Security Studies for purposes of this section, other than the institutions specified in par
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**(a)** The total service of an employee or Member is the full years and twelfth parts thereof, excluding from the aggregate the fractional part of a month, if any.
**(b)** The service of an employee shall be credited from the date of original employment to the date of separation on which title to annuity is based in the civilian service of the Government. Except as provided in paragraph (13) 11 So in original. Probably should be paragraph “(14)”. of this subsection, credit may not be allowed for a period of separation from the service in excess of 3 calendar days. The service includes—
(1) employment as a substitute in the postal field service;
(2) service in the Pan American Sanitary Bureau;
(3) subject to sections 8334(c) and 8339(i) of this title, service performed before July 10, 1960, as an employee of a county committee established under [section 590h(b) of title 16](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section590h/b&num=0&edition=prelim) or of a committee or an association of producers described by [section 610(b) of title 7](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section610/b&num=0&edition=prelim);
(4) service as a student-employee as defined by [section 5351 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5351&num=0&edition=prelim) only if he later becomes subject to this subchapter;
(5) a period of satisfactory service of a volunteer or volunteer leader under chapter 34 of title 22 only if he later becomes subject to this subchapter;
(6) employment under [section 709 of title 32](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title32-section709&num=0&edition=prelim) or any prior corresponding provision of law;
(7) a period of service of
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 219
tion 218 of title 18 of the United States Code in relation
to which there has been a final conviction for any vio-
lation of chapter 11 of title 18.
SEC. 2. The head of each Executive department and
agency described in section 1 may exercise the author-
ity hereby delegated by promulgating implementing
regulations; provided that the Secretary of Defense, the
Administrator of General Services and the Adminis-
trator of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration jointly shall issue government-wide imple-
menting regulations related to voiding or rescission of
contracts.
SEC. 3. Implementing regulations adopted pursuant to
this Order shall, at a minimum, provide the following
procedural protections:
(a) Written notice of the proposed action shall be
given in each case to the person or entity affected;
(b) The person or entity affected shall be afforded an
opportunity to submit pertinent information on its be-
half before a final decision is made;
(c) Upon the request of the person or entity affected,
a hearing shall be held at which it shall have the oppor-
tunity to call witnesses on its behalf and confront any
witness the agency may present; and
(d) The head of the agency or his designee shall issue
a final written decision specifying the amount of res-
titution or any other remedy authorized by section 218,
provided that such remedy shall take into consider-
ation the fair value of any tangible benefits received
and retained by the agency.
RONALD REAGAN.
§ 219. Officers and employees acting as agents of
foreign principals
(a) Whoever, being a public official, is or acts
as an agent of a foreign principal required to
register under the Foreign Agents Registration
Act of 1938 or a lob
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