BLOCH CASE

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• Document Creation Date: October 23, 2023
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• Case Number: F-2020-00556
• Publication Date: August 1, 1989

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MEMORANDUM FOR: FOR: The Director
FROM:
SUBJECT:
1 August 1989
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Deputy Director of Congressional Affairs
Bloch Case
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1. During your
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briefing
on the Bloch case
about
driminal statutes
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that might be applicable if it can
be proven
information to the Soviets.
2. I believe
following:
the
--50 U.S.C. 783(h) (the Scarbeck statute) deals with
transmittal of classified information by officers or
employees of the United States to anyone whom such officer
or employee knows or has reason to believe is an agent or
representative of any foreign government or an officer or
member of any Communist organization.
--18 U.S.C. 641 (the theft of government property
statute) makes it an offense for anyone without authority
to sell, convey or dispose of any "record, voucher, money,
or thing of value of the United States or of any department
or agency thereof."
--50 U.S.C. 421-426 (the Intelligence Identities
Protection Act).
These statutes have the advantage of avoiding some of the
burdens of proof inherent in the principal espionage statutes
(e.g., there is no need to show that the information
transmitted was related to the national defense or that the
defendant had intent or reason to believe that the information
could be used to the injury of the United States or the
advantage of a foreign nation), but proof that information or
documents were provided still is required.
3. I have attached copies of 50 U.S.C. 783(b),
18 U.S.C. 641, the relevant portion of the Identities Act, and
18 U.S.C. 793(d) and 794(a) for your information.
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Tit. SO,
WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
� 783. Offenses�
Communication of classified information tor Government officer or emPlorve
(b) It shall be unlawful for any officer or employee of the United
States or of any department or agency thereof, or of any corporation
the stock of which is owned in whole or in major part by the United
States or any department or agency thereof, to communicate in any
manner or by any means, to any other person whom such officer or
employee knows or has reason to believe to be an agent or representa-
tive of any foreign government or an officer or member of any Com-
munist organization as defined in paragraph (5) of section 782 of this
title, any information of a kind which shall have been classified by
the President (or by the head of any such department, agency, or
corporation with the approval of the President) as affecting the se-
curity of the United States, knowing or having reason to know that
such information has been so classified, unless such officer or em-
ployee shall have been specifically autliorized by the President, or
by the head of the department, agency, or corporation by which this
officer or employee is employed, to make such disclosure of such in-
formation.
Pena!ilea for violation
(d) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than
$10,000, or imprisonment for not more than ten years, or by both
such fine and such imprisonment, and shall, moreover, be thereafter
ineligible to hold any office, or place of honor, profit, or trust created
by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
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18 �641
� 641. Public money, property or records
Whoever embezzles, steals, purloins, or knowing-
ly converts to his use or the use of another, or
without authority, sells, conveys or disposes of any
record, voucher, money, or thing of value of the
United States or of any department or agency
thereof, or any property made or being made under
contract for the United States or any depgrtment
or agency thereof; or
Whoever receives, conceals, or retains the same
with intent to convert it to his use or gain, knowing
it to have been embezzled, stolen, purloined or
converted�
Shall be fined not more than $10,000 or impris-
oned not more than ten years, or both; but if the
value of such property does not exceed the sum of
$100, he shall be fined not more than $1,000 or
impriagned not more than one year, or both.
The word "value" means face, par, or market
value, or cost price, either wholesale or retail,
whichever is greater.
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96 STAT. 122 PUBLIC LAW 97-200�JUNE 23,1982
Public Law 97-200
97th Congress
June 23, 1982
[H.R. 4]
Intelligence
Identities
Protection Act
of 1982.
50 U8c 401 note.
50 USC 421.
An Act
To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to prohibit the unauthorized disclosure
of information identifying certain United States intelligence officers, agents,
informants, and sources.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may
be cited as the "Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982".
SEC. 2. (a) The National Security Act of 1947 is amended by adding
at the end thereof the following new title:
"TITLE VI�PROTECTION OF CERTAIN NATIONAL SECURITY
INFORMATION
"PROTECTION OF IDENTITIES OF CERTAIN UNITED STATES UNDERCOVER
INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS, AGENTS, INFORMANTS, AND SOURCES
"SEC. 601. (a) Whoever, having or having had authorized access to
classified information that identifies a covert agent, intentionally
discloses any information identifying such covert agent to any indi-
vidual not authorized to receive classified information, knowing that
the information disclosed so identifies such covert agent and that
the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such
covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be
fined not more than $50,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years,
or both.
"(b) Whoever, as a result of having authorized access to classified
information, learns the identity of a covert agent and intentionally
discloses any information identifying such covert agent to any indi-
vidual not authorized to receive c.assified information, knowing that
the information disclosed so identifies such covert agent and that
the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such
covert agent's intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be
fined not more than $25,000 or imprisoned not more than five years,
or both.
"(c) Whoever, in the course of a pattern of activities intended to
identify and expose covert agents and with reason to believe that
such activities would impair or impede the foreign intelligence
activities of the United States, discloses any information that identi-
fies an individual as a covert agent to any individual not authorized
to receive classified information, knowing that the information
disclosed so identifies such individual and that the United States is
taking affirmative measures to conceal such individual's classified
intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be fined not
more than $15,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
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(d) Whoever, lawfully having possession of, ac-
cess to, control over, or being entrusted with any
document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch,
photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan,
map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating
to the national defense, or information relating to
the national defense which information the posses-
sor has reason to believe could be used to the
injury of the United States or to the advantage of
any foreign nation, willfully communicates, deliv-
ers, transmits or causes to be communicated, deliv-
ered, or transmitted or attempts to communicate,
deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated,
delivered or transmitted 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
Shall be fined not more than $10,000 or inapria-
�nod not more than ten years, or both.
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� 794. Gathering or delivering defense Infor-
mation to aid foreign government
(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, communi-
cates, delivers, or transmits, or attempts to commu-
nicate, deliver, or transmit, to any foreign govern-
ment, 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 infor-
mation relating to the national defense, shall be
punished by death or by imprisonment for any term
of years or for life.
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