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HAMDT 253 (97th)

An amendment to strike language of Sec. 601(c) and insert new language. The Ashbrook language requires that the one disclosing information that identifies a covert agent the U.S. seeks to conceal must have "reason to believe" his activity would impair or impede the foreign intelligence activities of the U.S. The bill language states the person must have the "intent to" impair and impede. Also the Ashbrook language says the person must engage in a "course of activities intended to identify and expose covert agents" and the bill language states he must be engaged in "the course of an effort to identify and expose". This section of the bill deals with those who expose agents without having prior access to classified information.