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[CITE: 50USC852]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                      CHAPTER 23--INTERNAL SECURITY
 
    SUBCHAPTER V--REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN PERSONS TRAINED IN FOREIGN 
                            ESPIONAGE SYSTEMS
 
Sec. 852. Exemption from registration

    The registration requirements of section 851 of this title do not 
apply to any person--
        (a) who has obtained knowledge of or received instruction or 
    assignment in the espionage, counter-espionage, or sabotage service 
    or tactics of a foreign government or foreign political party by 
    reason of civilian, military, or police service or employment with 
    the United States Government, the governments of the several States, 
    their political subdivisions, the District of Columbia, the 
    Territories, or the Canal Zone;
        (b) who has obtained such knowledge solely by reason of academic 
    or personal interest not under the supervision of or in preparation 
    for service with the government of a foreign country or a foreign 
    political party;
        (c) who has made full disclosure of such knowledge, instruction, 
    or assignment to officials within an agency of the United States 
    Government having responsibilities in the field of intelligence, 
    which disclosure has been made a matter of record in the files of 
    such agency, and concerning whom a written determination has been 
    made by the Attorney General or the Director of Central Intelligence 
    that registration would not be in the interest of national security;
        (d) whose knowledge of, or receipt of instruction or assignment 
    in, the espionage, counterespionage, or sabotage service or tactics 
    of a government of a foreign country or of a foreign political 
    party, is a matter of record in the files of an agency of the United 
    States Government having responsibilities in the field of 
    intelligence and concerning whom a written determination is made by 
    the Attorney General or the Director of Central Intelligence, based 
    on all information available, that registration would not be in the 
    interest of national security;
        (e) who is a duly accredited diplomatic or consular officer of a 
    foreign government, who is so recognized by the Department of State, 
    while he is engaged exclusively in activities which are recognized 
    by the Department of State as being within the scope of the 
    functions of such officer, and any member of his immediate family 
    who resides with him;
        (f) who is an official of a foreign government recognized by the 
    United States, whose name and status and the character of whose 
    duties as such official are of record in the Department of State, 
    and while he is engaged exclusively in activities which are 
    recognized by the Department of State as being within the scope of 
    the functions of such official, and any member of his immediate 
    family who resides with him;
        (g) who is a member of the staff of or employed by a duly 
    accredited diplomatic or consular officer of a foreign government 
    who is so recognized by the Department of State, and whose name and 
    status and the character of whose duties as such member or employee 
    are a matter of record in the Department of State, while he is 
    engaged exclusively in the performance of activities recognized by 
    the Department of State as being within the scope of the functions 
    of such member or employee;
        (h) Who \1\ is an officially acknowledged and sponsored 
    representative of a foreign government and is in the United States 
    on an official mission for the purpose of conferring or otherwise 
    cooperating with United States intelligence or security personnel;
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    \1\ So in original. Probably should not be capitalized.
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        (i) who is a civilian or one of the military personnel of a 
    foreign armed service coming to the United States pursuant to 
    arrangements made under a mutual defense treaty or agreement, or who 
    has been invited to the United States at the request of an agency of 
    the United States Government; or
        (j) who is a person designated by a foreign government to serve 
    as its representative in or to an international organization in 
    which the United States participates or is an officer or employee of 
    such an organization or who is a member of the immediate family of, 
    and resides with, such a representative, officer, or employee.

(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 849, Sec. 3, 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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 851 of this title.
