EXCERPT FROM ESPIONAGE ACT (Title 50, Section 31 & 32, United States Code)

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 2000
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EXCERPT FROM ESPIONAGE ACT
(Title 50, Section 31 & 32, United States Code)
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Sec. 31. Unlawfully obtaining or permitting to be obtained inf ormat ion
affecting national defense. (a) Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining
information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to
believe that the information to be obtained is to be used to the injury
of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation, goes
upon, enters, flies over., or otherwise obtains information concerning
any vessel, aircraft, work of defense, navy yard, naval station, sub-
marine base, coaling station, fort, battery, torpedo station, dockyard,
canal, railroad, arsenal, camp, factory, mine, telegraph, telephone,
wireless, or signal station, building, office, or other place connected
with the national defense, owned or constructed, or in progress of con-
struction by the United States or under the control of the United States,
or of any of its officers or agents, or within the exclusive jurisdic-
tion of the United States, or any place in which any vessel, aircraft,
arms, munitions, or other materials or instruments for use in time of
war are,being made, prepared, repaired, or stored, under any contract
or agreement with the United States, or with any person on behalf of the
United States, or otherwise on behalf of the United States, or any
prohibited place within the meaning of section 36 of this title; or
(b) whoever for the purpose aforesaid, and with like intent or reason
to believe, copies, takes, makes, or obtains, or attempts, or induces or
aids another ;to copy, take, make, or obtain, any sketch, photograph,
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photographic negative, blueprint,.plan, map, model, instrument, appli-
ance, document, writing, or note of anything connected with the national
defense; or (c) whoever, for the purpose aforesaid, receives or obtains
or agrees or attempts or induces or aids another to receive or obtain
from any person, or from any source whatever, any document, writing,
code, book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative,
blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note, of.anything
connected with the national defense, knowing or having reason to believe,
at the time he receives or obtains, or agreesor attempts or induces or
aids another to receive or obtain it, that it has been or will be ob-
tained, taken, made or disposed of by any person contrary to the provi-
sions of this title; or (d) whoever, lawfully or unlawfully having
possession of, access to, control over, or being intrusted with any
document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photo-
graphic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance,
or note relating to the national defense, willfully communicates or
transmits or attempts to communicate or transmit the same to any person
not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to
deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of' the United States
entitled to receive it; or (e) whoever, being intrusted with or having
lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal
book, sketch,: photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map,
model, note, or information, relating to the national defense, through
gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of
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custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust,'or to be lost,
stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, .shall be punished by imprisonment for
not more than ten years and may, in the 'discretion of the court, be
fined not more than $10,000. Sec. f, Title I. act June 15, 1917, (40
Stat. 217): 50 U S C 1 ? M L , 1939, sec. 2181; sec. 1, act March 28,
1940--(Public,-No. 443, 76th Con g.).
Sec. 32. Unlawfully disclosing information affecting nations' defense.
(a) Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to
the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation,
communicates, delivers, or transmits, or attempts to, or aids or induces
another to, communicate, deliver, or transmit, to any foreign government,
or to any faction or party or military or naval force within a foreign
country, whether recognized or unrecognized by the United States, or
to any representative, officer, agent, employee, subject, or citizen
thereof, either directly or indirectly, any document, writing,.code
book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint,
plan, map, model, note, instrument, appliance, or information relating
to the national defense shall be punished by imprisonment for not more
than twenty years; Provided, That whoever shall violate the provisions
of sub-section (a) of this section in time of war shall be punished by
death or by imprisonment for not more than thirty years; and (b) who-
ever, in time of war, with intent that the same shall be communicated to
the enemy, shall collect, record, publish, or communicate, or attempt to
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elicit any information with respect to the movement, numbers, descrip-
tion, condition, or disposition of any of the armed forces, ships, air-
craft, or war materials of the United States, or?with respect to the
plans or conduct, or supposed plans or conduct of any naval or military
operations, or with respect to any works or measures undertaken for or
connected with, or intended for the fortification or defense of any
Place, or any ot4e.r information relating to the public defense, which
might be useful to the enemy, shall be punished by death or by imprison-
ment for not more than thirty years. Sec. 2, Title I, act June 15, 1917
(40 Stat. 218):50 U.S.C. 32; M. L., 1939, Sec. 2186.
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