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[CITE: 18USC3239]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                       PART II--CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                   CHAPTER 211--JURISDICTION AND VENUE
 
Sec. 3239. Optional venue for espionage and related offenses

    The trial for any offense involving a violation, begun or committed 
upon the high seas or elsewhere out of the jurisdiction of any 
particular State or district, of--
        (1) section 793, 794, 798, or section 1030(a)(1) of this title;
        (2) section 601 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
    421); or
        (3) section 4(b) or 4(c) of the Subversive Activities Control 
    Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 783(b) or (c));

may be in the District of Columbia or in any other district authorized 
by law.

(Added Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXII, Sec. 320909(a), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 
Stat. 2127.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 3239, act June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 827, 
related to threatening communications, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 98-
473, title II, Sec. 1204(b), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2152.