CHAPTER 45--FOREIGN RELATIONS Sec. 952. Diplomatic codes and correspondence

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[CITE: 18USC952]


                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

                             PART I--CRIMES

                      CHAPTER 45--FOREIGN RELATIONS

Sec. 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
diplomatic 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 furnishes
to another any such code or matter, or any matter which was obtained
while in the process of transmission between any foreign government and
its diplomatic mission in the United States, shall be fined under this
title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 743; Sept. 13, 1994, Pub. L. 103-322,
title XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(L), 108 Stat. 2147.)

                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on section 135 of title 22, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Foreign
Relations and Intercourse (June 10, 1933, ch. 57, 48 Stat. 122).
    Minor changes of phraseology were made.

                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-322 substituted ``fined under this title'' for
``fined not more than $10,000''.

                            Cross References

    Classified information, disclosure by Government official, penalty
for, see section 783 of Title 50, War and National Defense.
    Classified information, disclosure of, see section 798 of this
title.