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CITE

    18 USC Sec. 952                                             01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 45 - FOREIGN RELATIONS

HEAD

    Sec. 952. Diplomatic codes and correspondence

STATUTE

      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.

SOURCE

    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 743; Pub. L. 103-322, title
    XXXIII, Sec. 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".