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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00506R000100040056-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 31, 2003
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: December 19, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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OGC: JSWarner: s in
19 December 1973
In your letter you also state~itThere has never been a prose-
cution for violation of ?798, transmitting classified information
relating to codes and communications intelligence. " I am aware
of one case, United States v. Petersen, wherein Petersen, an
employee of the National Security Agency, was indicted under three
counts: (1) 18 U. S. C. 793, (2) 18 U. S. C. 798, and (3) 18 U. S. C. 2071.
On 22 December 1954 Petersen entered a plea of guilty to count (2)
of the indictment. One of the reasons for my mentioning this is
that 95798 is considered a tougher statute in that prosecution seems
somewhat less difficult than under the other statutes. This undoubtedly
was a factor in his attorney, a former NSA employee, urging him to
plead under ?798 rather than. going to trial on all three.
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