18-U.S.C.-952
§952 – Diplomatic Codes and Correspondence
Pathway
Title 18 > Part I > Chapter 45 > Section 952
Details
- Reference: Section 952
- Legend: §952 – Diplomatic Codes and Correspondence
- USCode Year: 2013
Provision Content
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; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 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.
U.S. Encyclopedia of Law Coverage
18-U.S.C.-922 in the Legal Encyclopedia: Criminal Law
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18-U.S.C.-951 in the Legal Encyclopedia: Crimes
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