It is a defense to a prosecution under section 3121 of this title that before the commission of the offense with which the defendant is charged, the United States had publicly acknowledged or revealed the intelligence relationship to the United States of the individual the disclosure of whose intelligence relationship to the United States is the basis for the prosecution.
It shall not be an offense under section 3121 of this title to transmit information described in such section directly to either congressional intelligence committee.
It shall not be an offense under section 3121 of this title for an individual to disclose information that solely identifies himself as a covert agent.
50 U.S.C. § 3122
EDITORIAL NOTES
CODIFICATIONSection was formerly classified to section 422 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
AMENDMENTS2002-Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 107-306 substituted "either congressional intelligence committee" for "the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate or to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives".
- foreign intelligence
- The term "foreign intelligence" means information relating to the capabilities, intentions, or activities of foreign governments or elements thereof, foreign organizations, or foreign persons, or international terrorist activities.
- intelligence
- The term "intelligence" includes foreign intelligence and counterintelligence.