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Title 50 — War and National Defense

Chapter 45 — Miscellaneous Intelligence Community Authorities

§ 3325. Reaffirmation of longstanding prohibition against drug trafficking by employees of the intelligence community

Statutory text

(a)

Finding

Congress finds that longstanding statutes, regulations, and policies of the United States prohibit employees, agents, and assets of the elements of the intelligence community, and of every other Federal department and agency, from engaging in the illegal manufacture, purchase, sale, transport, and distribution of drugs.

(b)

Obligation of employees of intelligence community

Any employee of the intelligence community having knowledge of a fact or circumstance that reasonably indicates that an employee, agent, or asset of an element of the intelligence community is involved in any activity that violates a statute, regulation, or policy described in subsection (a) shall report such knowledge to an appropriate official.

(c)

Intelligence community defined

In this section, the term “intelligence community” has the meaning given that term in section 3003(4) of this title.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000

    Pub. L. 106–120 title III § 313 · 113 Stat. 1606

    Enacted · 50 U.S.C. § 3325

    (Pub. L. 106–120, title III, § 313, Dec. 3, 1999, 113 Stat. 1615.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 106–120, title III, § 313, Dec. 3, 1999, 113 Stat. 1615.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 313. REAFFIRMATION OF LONGSTANDING PROHIBITION AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING BY EMPLOYEES OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY. (a) Finding.— Congress finds that longstanding statutes, regulations, and policies of the United States prohibit employees, agents, and assets of the elements of the intelligence community, and of every other Federal department and agency, from engaging in the illegal manufacture, purchase, sale, transport, and distribution of drugs. (b) Obligation of Employees of Intelligence Community.— Any employee of the intelligence community having knowledge of a fact or circumstance that reasonably indicates that an employee, agent, or asset of an element of the intelligence community is involved in any activity that violates a statute, regulation, or policy described in subsection (a) shall report such knowledge to an appropriate official. (c) Intelligence Community Defined.— In this section, the term “intelligence community” has the meaning given that term in section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401a(4)).

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 403–8 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Credits

(Pub. L. 106–120, title III, § 313, , 113 Stat. 1615.)

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