A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code to make it a Federal crime to identify publicly any U.S. undercover agent.

Summary

Declares that whoever, without stipulated official approval, knowingly and willfully causes or conspires to cause the public identification of a United States undercover agent as such shall be fined not more than $10,000 and/or imprisoned for not less than ten nor more than twenty years. Defines "United States undercover agent" as a person engaged by the Central Intelligence Agency for the conduct of undercover intelligence gathering operations outside the United States. Declares it the sense of the Congress that the Department of State should take appropriate action to conceal the identities of Central Intelligence Agency agents who are assigned to the embassies of the United States to foreign nations. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 2392)

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Timeline

1. 28 January 1976

   Introduced

   Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.

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2. 28 January 1976

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

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3. 28 January 1976

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

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Documents

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 28 January 1976

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Sponsors

• Rep. Rinaldo, Matthew J. [R-NJ-12] · R · Sponsor
• · hsju00 · Standing

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