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50 U.S.C. § 3125 — Notice of impact of diplomatic and consular post closings on intelligence community
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**(a) Notice to Director of National Intelligence and Secretary of Defense** The Secretary of State shall provide notice to the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense of any covered closure of a diplomatic or consular post. To the maximum extent practicable, the notice shall be provided at least 30 days before the date on which the covered closure occurs.
**(b) Notice to congressional committees** The Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the heads of the other appropriate elements of the intelligence community as determined by the Director, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a notice describing the impact of the closure on the intelligence community. The notice shall be submitted within 30 days after the date on which the Director receives the notice under subsection (a) and, to the maximum extent practicable, shall be submitted before the date on which the covered closure occurs. Such notice shall include a description of whether, and the extent to which, the Director and the heads of the other appropriate elements of the intelligence community were consulted in the decision-making process with respect to such closure and registered any concerns with or objections to such closure.
**(c) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Appropriate congressional committees** — The term “appropriate congressional committees” means—
(A) the congressional intelligence committees;
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives;
(C) the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives; and
(D) the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
(2) **Covered closure of a diplomat
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**(a) Notice to Director of National Intelligence and Secretary of Defense** The Secretary of State shall provide notice to the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense of any covered closure of a diplomatic or consular post. To the maximum extent practicable, the notice shall be provided at least 30 days before the date on which the covered closure occurs.
**(b) Notice to congressional committees** The Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the heads of the other appropriate elements of the intelligence community as determined by the Director, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a notice describing the impact of the closure on the intelligence community. The notice shall be submitted within 30 days after the date on which the Director receives the notice under subsection (a) and, to the maximum extent practicable, shall be submitted before the date on which the covered closure occurs. Such notice shall include a description of whether, and the extent to which, the Director and the heads of the other appropriate elements of the intelligence community were consulted in the decision-making process with respect to such closure and registered any concerns with or objections to such closure.
**(c) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Appropriate congressional committees** — The term “appropriate congressional committees” means—
(A) the congressional intelligence committees;
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives;
(C) the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives; and
(D) the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
(2) **Covered closure of a diplomatic or consular post defined** — The term “covered closure of a diplomatic or consular post” means the closure of a United States diplomatic or consular post abroad that is anticipated to last for 60 days or more.
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For the purposes of this subchapter:
(1) The term “classified information” means information or material designated and clearly marked or clearly represented, pursuant to the provisions of a statute or Executive order (or a regulation or order issued pursuant to a statute or Executive order), as requiring a specific degree of protection against unauthorized disclosure for reasons of national security.
(2) The term “authorized”, when used with respect to access to classified information, means having authority, right, or permission pursuant to the provisions of a statute, Executive order, directive of the head of any department or agency engaged in foreign intelligence or counterintelligence activities, order of any United States court, or provisions of any Rule of the House of Representatives or resolution of the Senate which assigns responsibility within the respective House of Congress for the oversight of intelligence activities.
(3) The term “disclose” means to communicate, provide, impart, transmit, transfer, convey, publish, or otherwise make available.
(4) The term “covert agent” means—
(A) a present or retired officer or employee of an intelligence agency or a present or retired member of the Armed Forces assigned to duty with an intelligence agency whose identity as such an officer, employee, or member is classified information; or
(B) a United States citizen whose intelligence relationship to the United States is classified information, and—
(i) who acts as an agent of, or informant or source of operational assistance to, an intelligence agency, or
(ii) who is at the time of the disclosure acting as an agent of, or informant to, the foreign counterintelligence or foreign counterterrorism components of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; or
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section 425, comprising section 604 of the National Security Act of 1947, act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, was editorially reclassified as [section 3125 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3125&num=0&edition=prelim).
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TITLE 50—WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
§ 3122
(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title VI, § 601, as added
Pub. L. 97–200, § 2(a), June 23, 1982, 96 Stat. 122;
amended Pub. L. 106–120, title III, § 304(b), Dec. 3,
1999, 113 Stat. 1611; Pub. L. 111–259, title III,
§ 363(a), Oct. 7, 2010, 124 Stat. 2701.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section was formerly classified to section 421 of this
title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering
as this section.
AMENDMENTS
2010—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 111–259, § 363(a)(1), sub-
stituted ‘‘15 years’’ for ‘‘ten years’’.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 111–259, § 363(a)(2), substituted ‘‘10
years’’ for ‘‘five years’’.
1999—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–120, § 304(b)(2)(A), sub-
stituted ‘‘shall be fined under title 18’’ for ‘‘shall be
fined not more than $50,000’’.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106–120, § 304(b)(2)(B), substituted
‘‘shall be fined under title 18’’ for ‘‘shall be fined not
more than $25,000’’.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 106–120, § 304(b)(2)(C), substituted
‘‘shall be fined under title 18’’ for ‘‘shall be fined not
more than $15,000’’.
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 106–120, § 304(b)(1), added subsec.
(d).
§ 3122. Defenses and exceptions
(a) Disclosure by United States of identity of cov-
ert agent
It is a defense to a prosecution under section
3121 of this title that before the commission of
the offense with which the defendant is charged,
the United States had publicly acknowledged or
revealed the intelligence relationship to the
United States of the individual the disclosure of
whose intelligence relationship to the United
States is the basis for the prosecution.
(b) Conspiracy, misprision of felony, aiding and
abetting, etc.
(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no person other
than a person committing an offense under sec-
tion
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