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22 U.S.C. § 614 — Filing and labeling of political propaganda
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**(a) Copies to Attorney General; statement as to places, times, and extent of transmission** Every person within the United States who is an agent of a foreign principal and required to register under the provisions of this subchapter and who transmits or causes to be transmitted in the United States mails or by any means or instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce any informational materials for or in the interests of such foreign principal (i) in the form of prints, or (ii) in any other form which is reasonably adapted to being, or which he believes will be, or which he intends to be, disseminated or circulated among two or more persons shall, not later than forty-eight hours after the beginning of the transmittal thereof, file with the Attorney General two copies thereof.
**(b) Identification statement** It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States who is an agent of a foreign principal and required to register under the provisions of this subchapter to transmit or cause to be transmitted in the United States mails or by any means or instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce any informational materials for or in the interests of such foreign principal without placing in such informational materials a conspicuous statement that the materials are distributed by the agent on behalf of the foreign principal, and that additional information is on file with the Department of Justice, Washington, District of Columbia. The Attorney General may by rule define what constitutes a conspicuous statement for the purposes of this subsection.
**(c) Public inspection** The copies of informational materials required by this subchapter to be filed with the Attorney General shall be available for public inspection under such regulations as he may pres
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**(a) Copies to Attorney General; statement as to places, times, and extent of transmission** Every person within the United States who is an agent of a foreign principal and required to register under the provisions of this subchapter and who transmits or causes to be transmitted in the United States mails or by any means or instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce any informational materials for or in the interests of such foreign principal (i) in the form of prints, or (ii) in any other form which is reasonably adapted to being, or which he believes will be, or which he intends to be, disseminated or circulated among two or more persons shall, not later than forty-eight hours after the beginning of the transmittal thereof, file with the Attorney General two copies thereof.
**(b) Identification statement** It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States who is an agent of a foreign principal and required to register under the provisions of this subchapter to transmit or cause to be transmitted in the United States mails or by any means or instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce any informational materials for or in the interests of such foreign principal without placing in such informational materials a conspicuous statement that the materials are distributed by the agent on behalf of the foreign principal, and that additional information is on file with the Department of Justice, Washington, District of Columbia. The Attorney General may by rule define what constitutes a conspicuous statement for the purposes of this subsection.
**(c) Public inspection** The copies of informational materials required by this subchapter to be filed with the Attorney General shall be available for public inspection under such regulations as he may prescribe.
**(d) Library of Congress** For purposes of the Library of Congress, other than for public distribution, the Secretary of the Treasury and the United States Postal Service are authorized, upon the request of the Librarian of Congress, to forward to the Library of Congress fifty copies, or as many fewer thereof as are available, of all foreign prints determined to be prohibited entry under the provisions of [section 1305 of title 19](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section1305&num=0&edition=prelim) and of all foreign prints excluded from the mails under authority of [section 1717 of title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section1717&num=0&edition=prelim). Notwithstanding the provisions of [section 1305 of title 19](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section1305&num=0&edition=prelim) and of [section 1717 of title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section1717&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to permit the entry and the United States Postal Service is authorized to permit the transmittal in the mails of foreign prints imported for governmental purposes by authority or for the use of the United States or for the use of the Library of Congress.
**(e) Information furnished to agency or official of United States Government** It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States who is an agent of a foreign principal required to register under the provisions of this subchapter to transmit, convey, or otherwise furnish to any agency or official of the Government (including a Member or committee of either House of Congress) for or in the interests of such foreign principal any political propaganda or to request from any such agency or official for or in the interests of such foreign principal any information or advice with respect to any matter pertaining to the political or public interests, policies or relations of a foreign country or of a political party or pertaining to the foreign or domestic policies of the United States unless the propaganda or the request is prefaced or accompanied by a true and accurate statement to the effect that such person is registered as an agent of such foreign principal under this subchapter.
**(f) Appearances before Congressional committees** Whenever any agent of a foreign principal required to register under this subchapter appears before any committee of Congress to testify for or in the interests of such foreign principal, he shall, at the time of such appearance, furnish the committee with a copy of his most recent registration statement filed with the Department of Justice as an agent of such foreign principal for inclusion in the records of the committee as part of his testimony.
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**(a) Prohibition of importation** All persons are prohibited from importing into the United States from any foreign country any book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, or drawing containing any matter advocating or urging treason or insurrection against the United States, or forcible resistance to any law of the United States, or containing any threat to take the life of or inflict bodily harm upon any person in the United States, or any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing, or other representation, figure, or image on or of paper or other material, or any cast, instrument, or other article which is obscene or immoral, or any drug or medicine or any article whatever for causing unlawful abortion, or any lottery ticket, or any printed paper that may be used as a lottery ticket, or any advertisement of any lottery. No such articles whether imported separately or contained in packages with other goods entitled to entry, shall be admitted to entry; and all such articles and, unless it appears to the satisfaction of the appropriate customs officer that the obscene or other prohibited articles contained in the package were inclosed therein without the knowledge or consent of the importer, owner, agent, or consignee, the entire contents of the package in which such articles are contained, shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture as hereinafter provided: Provided, That the drugs hereinbefore mentioned, when imported in bulk and not put up for any of the purposes hereinbefore specified, are excepted from the operation of this subdivision: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, admit the so-called classics or books of recognized and established literary or
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For purposes of this chapter—
(1) an individual with a blood alcohol content of .10 percent or more shall be presumed to be under the influence of alcohol; and
(2) an individual shall be presumed to be under the influence of drugs if the quantity of the drug in the system of the individual would be sufficient to impair the perception, mental processes, or motor functions of the average individual.
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There is established, as an independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States, the United States Postal Service.
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**(a)** Every letter, writing, circular, postal card, picture, print, engraving, photograph, newspaper, pamphlet, book, or other publication, matter or thing, in violation of sections 499, 506, 793, 794, 915, 954, 956, 957, 960, 964, 1017, 1542, 1543, 1544 or 2388 of this title or which contains any matter advocating or urging treason, insurrection, or forcible resistance to any law of the United States is nonmailable and shall not be conveyed in the mails or delivered from any post office or by any letter carrier.
**(b)** Whoever uses or attempts to use the mails or Postal Service for the transmission of any matter declared by this section to be nonmailable, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years or both.
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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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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section 233, act June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title VIII, § 3, 40 Stat. 226, as amended, which related to acting as a foreign agent without notice to Secretary of State, was transferred to [section 601 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section601&num=0&edition=prelim) and was subsequently repealed by act June 25, 1948, ch. 645, § 21, 62 Stat. 862. See [section 951 of Title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section951&num=0&edition=prelim), Crimes and Criminal Procedure.
Section 233a, act June 8, 1938, ch. 327, § 1, 52 Stat. 631, as amended, which related to defining, various terms included in provisions relating to foreign agents and propaganda, was transferred to [section 611 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section611&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 233b, act June 8, 1938, ch. 327, § 2, 52 Stat. 632, as amended, which related to registration statements, was transferred to [section 612 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section612&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 233c, act June 8, 1938, ch. 327, § 3, 52 Stat. 632, as amended, which related to exemptions, was transferred to [section 613 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section613&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 233d, act June 8, 1938, ch. 327, § 4, 52 Stat. 632, as amended, which related to filing and labeling political propaganda, was transferred to [section 614 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section614&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 233e, act June 8, 1938, ch. 327, § 5, 52 Stat. 633, as amended, w
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**(a) Violations; false statements and willful omissions** Any person who—
(1) willfully violates any provision of this subchapter or any regulation thereunder, or
(2) in any registration statement or supplement thereto or in any other document filed with or furnished to the Attorney General under the provisions of this subchapter willfully makes a false statement of a material fact or willfully omits any material fact required to be stated therein or willfully omits a material fact or a copy of a material document necessary to make the statements therein and the copies of documents furnished therewith not misleading, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or both, except that in the case of a violation of subsection (b), (e), or (f) of [section 614 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section614&num=0&edition=prelim) or of subsection (g) or (h) of this section the punishment shall be a fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment for not more than six months, or both.
**(b) Proof of identity of foreign principal** In any proceeding under this subchapter in which it is charged that a person is an agent of a foreign principal with respect to a foreign principal outside of the United States, proof of the specific identity of the foreign principal shall be permissible but not necessary.
**(c) Removal** Any alien who shall be convicted of a violation of, or a conspiracy to violate, any provision of this subchapter or any regulation thereunder shall be subject to removal pursuant to chapter 4 of title II of the Immigration and Nationality Act [[8 U.S.C. 1221](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1221
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TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
§ 614
before any court of law or any agency of the
Government of the United States: Provided, That
for the purposes of this subsection legal rep-
resentation does not include attempts to influ-
ence or persuade agency personnel or officials
other than in the course of judicial proceedings,
criminal or civil law enforcement inquiries, in-
vestigations, or proceedings, or agency pro-
ceedings required by statute or regulation to be
conducted on the record.
(h) Agents of foreign principals
Any agent of a person described in section
611(b)(2) of this title or an entity described in
section 611(b)(3) of this title if the agent has en-
gaged in lobbying activities and has registered
under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 [2
U.S.C. 1601 et seq.] in connection with the
agent’s representation of such person or entity.
(June 8, 1938, ch. 327, § 3, 52 Stat. 632; Aug. 7, 1939,
ch. 521, § 2, 53 Stat. 1245; Apr. 29, 1942, ch. 263, § 1,
56 Stat. 254; Pub. L. 87–366, § 2, Oct. 4, 1961, 75
Stat. 784; Pub. L. 89–486, § 3, July 4, 1966, 80 Stat.
246; Pub. L. 104–65, § 9(2), (3), Dec. 19, 1995, 109
Stat. 700; Pub. L. 105–166, § 5, Apr. 6, 1998, 112
Stat. 39.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
The Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, referred to in
subsec. (h), is Pub. L. 104–65, Dec. 19, 1995, 109 Stat. 691,
which is classified principally to chapter 26 (§ 1601 et
seq.) of Title 2, The Congress. For complete classifica-
tion of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set
out under section 1601 of Title 2 and Tables.
PRIOR PROVISIONS
Prior to general amendment of act June 8, 1938, by
act Apr. 29, 1942, section related to additional registra-
tion statements after each six months period. Provi-
sions on that s
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