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[CITE: 50USC851]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                      CHAPTER 23--INTERNAL SECURITY
 
    SUBCHAPTER V--REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN PERSONS TRAINED IN FOREIGN 
                            ESPIONAGE SYSTEMS
 
Sec. 851. Registration of certain persons; filing statement; 
        regulations
        
    Except as provided in section 852 of this title, every person who 
has knowledge of, or has received instruction or assignment in, the 
espionage, counter-espionage, or sabotage service or tactics of a 
government of a foreign country or of a foreign political party, shall 
register with the Attorney General by filing with the Attorney General a 
registration statement in duplicate, under oath, prepared and filed in 
such manner and form, and containing such statements, information, or 
documents pertinent to the purposes and objectives of this subchapter as 
the Attorney General, having due regard for the national security and 
the public interest, by regulations prescribes.

(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 849, Sec. 2, 70 Stat. 899.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of the Internal Security Act of 1950 
which comprises subchapters I to III of this chapter.


                              Separability

    Section 9 of act Aug. 1, 1956, provided: ``If any provision of this 
Act [enacting this subchapter] or the application thereof to any person 
or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the 
application of such provisions to other persons or circumstances, is not 
affected thereby.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 852 of this title.
