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[CITE: 50USC413a]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                      CHAPTER 15--NATIONAL SECURITY
 
       SUBCHAPTER III--ACCOUNTABILITY FOR INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
 
Sec. 413a. Reporting of intelligence activities other than 
        covert actions
        
    To the extent consistent with due regard for the protection from 
unauthorized disclosure of classified information relating to sensitive 
intelligence sources and methods or other exceptionally sensitive 
matters, the Director of Central Intelligence and the heads of all 
departments, agencies, and other entities of the United States 
Government involved in intelligence activities shall--
        (1) keep the intelligence committees fully and currently 
    informed of all intelligence activities, other than a covert action 
    (as defined in section 413b(e) of this title), which are the 
    responsibility of, are engaged in by, or are carried out for or on 
    behalf of, any department, agency, or entity of the United States 
    Government, including any significant anticipated intelligence 
    activity and any significant intelligence failure; and
        (2) furnish the intelligence committees any information or 
    material concerning intelligence activities, other than covert 
    actions, which is within their custody or control, and which is 
    requested by either of the intelligence committees in order to carry 
    out its authorized responsibilities.

(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title V, Sec. 502, as added Pub. L. 102-88, 
title VI, Sec. 602(a)(2), Aug. 14, 1991, 105 Stat. 442.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 502 of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, was renumbered 
section 504 and is classified to section 414 of this title.


   Furnishing of Intelligence Information to Senate and House Select 
                       Committees on Intelligence

    Section 405 of Pub. L. 102-88 provided that:
    ``(a) Furnishing of Specific Information.--In accordance with title 
V of the National Security Act of 1947 [50 U.S.C. 413 et seq.], the head 
of any department or agency of the United States involved in any 
intelligence activities which may pertain to United States military 
personnel listed as prisoner, missing, or unaccounted for in military 
actions shall furnish any information or documents in the possession, 
custody, or control of the department or agency, or person paid by such 
department or agency, whenever requested by the Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives or the Select 
Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.
    ``(b) Access by Committees and Members of Congress.--In accordance 
with Senate Resolution 400, Ninety-Fourth Congress, and House Resolution 
658, Ninety-Fifth Congress, the committees named in subsection (a) 
shall, upon request and under such regulations as the committees have 
prescribed to protect the classification of such information, make any 
information described in subsection (a) available to any other committee 
or any other Member of Congress and appropriately cleared staff.''
