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[CITE: 50USC426]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                      CHAPTER 15--NATIONAL SECURITY
 
   SUBCHAPTER IV--PROTECTION OF CERTAIN NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION
 
Sec. 426. Definitions

    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--
                (i) whose identity as such an officer, employee, or 
            member is classified information, and
                (ii) who is serving outside the United States or has 
            within the last five years served outside the United States; 
            or

            (B) a United States citizen whose intelligence relationship 
        to the United States is classified information, and--
                (i) who resides and acts outside the United States 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

            (C) an individual, other than a United States citizen, whose 
        past or present intelligence relationship to the United States 
        is classified information and who is a present or former agent 
        of, or a present or former informant or source of operational 
        assistance to, an intelligence agency.

        (5) The term ``intelligence agency'' means the Central 
    Intelligence Agency, a foreign intelligence component of the 
    Department of Defense, or the foreign counterintelligence or foreign 
    counterterrorism components of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
        (6) The term ``informant'' means any individual who furnishes 
    information to an intelligence agency in the course of a 
    confidential relationship protecting the identity of such individual 
    from public disclosure.
        (7) The terms ``officer'' and ``employee'' have the meanings 
    given such terms by section 2104 and 2105, respectively, of title 5.
        (8) The term ``Armed Forces'' means the Army, Navy, Air Force, 
    Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.
        (9) The term ``United States'', when used in a geographic sense, 
    means all areas under the territorial sovereignty of the United 
    States and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
        (10) The term ``pattern of activities'' requires a series of 
    acts with a common purpose or objective.

(July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title VI, Sec. 606, as added Pub. L. 97-200, 
Sec. 2(a), June 23, 1982, 96 Stat. 123; amended Pub. L. 106-120, title 
III, Sec. 304(a), Dec. 3, 1999, 113 Stat. 1611.)


                               Amendments

    1999--Par. (4)(A). Pub. L. 106-120 substituted ``a present or 
retired officer or employee'' for ``an officer or employee'' and ``a 
present or retired member'' for ``a member''.

          Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

    For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note 
set out preceding section 1681 of Title 48, Territories and Insular 
Possessions.
