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18 U.S.C. § 954 — False statements influencing foreign government
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Whoever, in relation to any dispute or controversy between a foreign government and the United States, willfully and knowingly makes any untrue statement, either orally or in writing, under oath before any person authorized and empowered to administer oaths, which the affiant has knowledge or reason to believe will, or may be used to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government, or of any officer or agent of any foreign government, to the injury of the United States, or with a view or intent to influence any measure of or action by the United States or any department or agency thereof, to the injury of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
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Whoever, in relation to any dispute or controversy between a foreign government and the United States, willfully and knowingly makes any untrue statement, either orally or in writing, under oath before any person authorized and empowered to administer oaths, which the affiant has knowledge or reason to believe will, or may be used to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government, or of any officer or agent of any foreign government, to the injury of the United States, or with a view or intent to influence any measure of or action by the United States or any department or agency thereof, to the injury of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
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### Statutory Notes
Section 231, acts June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title VIII, § 1, 40 Stat. 226; Mar. 28, 1940, ch. 72, § 6, 54 Stat. 80, related to false statements to influence conduct of foreign governments toward the United States. See [section 954 of Title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section954&num=0&edition=prelim), Crimes and Criminal Procedure.
Section 232, acts June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title VIII, § 2, 40 Stat. 226; Mar. 28, 1940, ch. 72, § 6, 54 Stat. 80, related to wrongful assumption of character of diplomatic or consular officer. See [section 915 of Title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section915&num=0&edition=prelim).
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 954
4610 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to re-
peal by Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title XVII, § 1766(a), Aug.
13, 2018, 132 Stat. 2232. Provisions relating to penalties
are covered generally in section 4819 of Title 50, as en-
acted by Pub. L. 115–232.
AMENDMENTS
1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–322 substituted ‘‘fined
under this title’’ for ‘‘fined not more than $75,000’’.
1993—Subsec. (e)(2)(A). Pub. L. 103–199 substituted
‘‘Cuba or any other country that the President deter-
mines (and so reports to the Congress) poses a threat to
the national security interest of the United States for
purposes of this section’’ for ‘‘the Soviet Union, the
German
Democratic
Republic,
Hungary,
Czecho-
slovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, or Cuba’’.
1986—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 99–569 added subsec. (e).
1984—Pub. L. 98–473 designated existing provisions as
subsec. (a), substituted ‘‘Attorney General if required
in subsection (b)’’ for ‘‘Secretary of State’’, and added
subsecs. (b) to (d).
1983—Pub. L. 97–462 increased limitation on fines to
$75,000 from $5,000.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1983 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 97–462 effective 45 days after
Jan. 12, 1983, see section 4 of Pub. L. 97–462, set out as
a note under section 2071 of Title 28, Judiciary and Ju-
dicial Procedure.
§ 952. Diplomatic codes and correspondence
Whoever, by virtue of his employment by the
United States, obtains from another or has or
has had custody of or access to, any official dip-
lomatic code or any matter prepared in any such
code, or which purports to have been prepared in
any such code, and without authorization or
competent authority, willfully publishes or fur-
nishes to anothe
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