2012 US Code
Title 50 - War and National Defense
Chapter 15 - NATIONAL SECURITY (§§ 401 - 442b)
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CHAPTER 15 - NATIONAL SECURITY
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401.Congressional declaration of purpose.
401a.Definitions.

        

SUBCHAPTER I—COORDINATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
402.National Security Council.
402–1.Joint Intelligence Community Council.
402a.Coordination of counterintelligence activities.
402b.National Counterintelligence Executive.
402c.Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive.
403.Director of National Intelligence.
403–1.Responsibilities and authorities of the Director of National Intelligence.
403–1a.Assignment of responsibilities relating to analytic integrity.
403–1b.Additional education and training requirements.
403–1c.National Intelligence Reserve Corps.
403–2.Intelligence community contracting.
403–2a.Construction of intelligence community facilities; Presidential authorization.
403–2b.Limitation on construction of facilities to be used primarily by intelligence community.
403–3.Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
403–3a.Deputy Directors of National Intelligence.
403–3b.National Intelligence Council.
403–3c.General Counsel.
403–3d.Civil Liberties Protection Officer.
403–3e.Director of Science and Technology.
403–3f.National Counterintelligence Executive.
403–3g.Chief Information Officer.
403–3h.Inspector General of the Intelligence Community.
403–3i.Chief Financial Officer of the Intelligence Community.
403–4.Central Intelligence Agency.
403–4a.Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
403–4b.Transformation of Central Intelligence Agency.
403–4c.Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
403–5.Responsibilities of Secretary of Defense pertaining to National Intelligence Program.
403–5a.Assistance to United States law enforcement agencies.
403–5b.Disclosure of foreign intelligence acquired in criminal investigations; notice of criminal investigations of foreign intelligence sources.
403–5c.Transferred.
403–5d.Foreign intelligence information.
403–5e.Transferred.
403–6.Appointment of officials responsible for intelligence-related activities.
403–7.Prohibition on using journalists as agents or assets.
403–8.Reaffirmation of longstanding prohibition against drug trafficking by employees of the intelligence community.
403–9.Information access by the Comptroller General of the United States.
403a.Definitions relating to Central Intelligence Agency.
403b.Seal of office of Central Intelligence Agency.
403c.Procurement authority of Central Intelligence Agency.
403d.Repealed.
403e.Central Intelligence Agency personnel; allowances and benefits.
403e–1.Eligibility for incentive awards.
403f.General authorities of Agency.
403g.Protection of nature of Agency's functions.
403h.Admission of essential aliens; limitation on number.
403i.Repealed.
403j.Central Intelligence Agency; appropriations; expenditures.
403k.Authority to pay death gratuities.
403l.Authority to accept gifts, devises and bequests.
403m.Misuse of Agency name, initials, or seal.
403n.Special provisions for spouses of Central Intelligence Agency employees applicable to Agency participants in Civil Service Retirement and Disability System.
403o.Security personnel at Agency installations.
403p.Health benefits for certain former spouses of Central Intelligence Agency employees.
403q.Inspector General for Agency.
403r.Special annuity computation rules for certain employees’ service abroad.
403r–1.Portability of overseas service retirement benefit.
403s.Special rules for disability retirement and death-in-service benefits with respect to certain employees.
403t.General Counsel of Central Intelligence Agency.
403u.Central services program.
403v.Detail of employees.
403w.Intelligence operations and cover enhancement authority.
403x.Separation pay program for voluntary separation from service.
404.Emergency preparedness.
404a.Annual national security strategy report.
404b.Multiyear national intelligence program.
404c.Annual report on United States security arrangements and commitments with other nations.
404d.Repealed.
404d–1.Transferred.
404e.National mission of National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
404f.Repealed.
404g.Restrictions on intelligence sharing with United Nations.
404h.Detail of intelligence community personnel—Intelligence Community Assignment Program.
404h–1.Non-reimbursable detail of other personnel.
404i.Additional annual reports from the Director of National Intelligence.
404i–1.Repealed.
404j.Limitation on establishment or operation of diplomatic intelligence support centers.
404k.Travel on any common carrier for certain intelligence collection personnel.
404l.POW/MIA analytic capability.
404m.Annual report on financial intelligence on terrorist assets.
404n.National Virtual Translation Center.
404n–1.Foreign Terrorist Asset Tracking Center.
404n–2.Terrorist Identification Classification System.
404n–3.Repealed.
404o.National Counterterrorism Center.
404o–1.National Counter Proliferation Center.
404o–2.National Intelligence Centers.

        

SUBCHAPTER II—MISCELLANEOUS AND CONFORMING PROVISIONS
405.Advisory committees; appointment; compensation of part-time personnel; applicability of other laws.
406.Omitted.
407.Study or plan of surrender; use of appropriations.
408.Applicable laws.
409.Definitions of military departments.
409a.National Security Agency voluntary separation.
409b.Authority of Federal Bureau of Investigation to award personal services contracts.
409b–1.Reports on exercise of authority.
410.“Function” and “Department of Defense” defined.
411.Authorization of appropriations.
412.Repealing and savings provisions.

        

SUBCHAPTER III—ACCOUNTABILITY FOR INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
413.General congressional oversight provisions.
413a.Reporting of intelligence activities other than covert actions.
413b.Presidential approval and reporting of covert actions.
413c.Communications with the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
414.Funding of intelligence activities.
415.Notice to Congress of certain transfers of defense articles and defense services.
415a.Specificity of National Intelligence Program budget amounts for counterterrorism, counterproliferation, counternarcotics, and counterintelligence.
415a–1.Budget treatment of costs of acquisition of major systems by the intelligence community.
415a–2.Exhibits for inclusion with budget justification books.
415a–3.Repealed.
415a–4.Annual personnel level assessments for the intelligence community.
415a–5.Vulnerability assessments of major systems.
415a–6.Intelligence community business system transformation.
415a–7.Reports on the acquisition of major systems.
415a–8.Critical cost growth in major systems.
415a–9.Future budget projections.
415a–10.Reports on security clearances.
415a–11.Summary of intelligence relating to terrorist recidivism of detainees held at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
415b.Dates for submittal of various annual and semiannual reports to the congressional intelligence committees.
415c.Availability to public of certain intelligence funding information.
415d.Certification of compliance with oversight requirements.

        

SUBCHAPTER IV—PROTECTION OF CERTAIN NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION
421.Protection of identities of certain United States undercover intelligence officers, agents, informants, and sources.
422.Defenses and exceptions.
423.Repealed.
424.Extraterritorial jurisdiction.
425.Providing information to Congress.
426.Definitions.

        

SUBCHAPTER V—PROTECTION OF OPERATIONAL FILES
431.Operational files of the Central Intelligence Agency.
432.Operational files of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
432a.Operational files of the National Reconnaissance Office.
432b.Operational files of the National Security Agency.
432c.Omitted.
432d.Protection of certain files of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

        

SUBCHAPTER VI—ACCESS TO CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
435.Procedures.
435a.Limitation on handling, retention, and storage of certain classified materials by the Department of State.
435b.Security clearances.
435c.Security clearances; limitations.
435d.Classification training program.
436.Requests by authorized investigative agencies.
437.Exceptions.
438.Definitions.

        

SUBCHAPTER VII—APPLICATION OF SANCTIONS LAWS TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
441.Stay of sanctions.
441a.Extension of stay.
441b.Reports.
441c.Laws subject to stay.
441d.Repealed.

        

SUBCHAPTER VII–A—EDUCATION IN SUPPORT OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

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