10 USC 424: Organizational and Personnel Information for DIA, NRO, and NGA

            
 
          Sec. 424. Disclosure of organizational and personnel 
        information: exemption for specified intelligence agencies
        
    (a) Exemption From Disclosure.--Except as required by the President 
or as provided in subsection (c), no provision of law shall be construed 
to require the disclosure of--
        (1) the organization or any function of an organization of the 
    Department of Defense named in subsection (b); or
        (2) the number of persons employed by or assigned or detailed to 
    any such organization or the name, official title, occupational 
    series, grade, or salary of any such person.

    (b) Covered Organizations.--This section applies to the following 
organizations of the Department of Defense:
        (1) The Defense Intelligence Agency.
        (2) The National Reconnaissance Office.
        (3) The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

    (c) Provision of Information to Congress.--Subsection (a) does not 
apply with respect to the provision of information to Congress.

(Added Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title XI, Sec. 1112(d), Sept. 23, 1996, 
110 Stat. 2683; amended Pub. L. 108-136, div. A, title IX, 
Sec. 921(d)(5)(A), (B)(i), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1569.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 424, added Pub. L. 100-178, title VI, Sec. 603(a), 
Dec. 2, 1987, 101 Stat. 1016, Sec. 1607; renumbered Sec. 424 and amended 
Pub. L. 100-453, title VII, Sec. 703(a), Sept. 29, 1988, 102 Stat. 1912, 
related to disclosure of organizational and personnel information with 
respect to the Defense Intelligence Agency prior to repeal by Pub. L. 
104-201, div. A, title XI, Secs. 1112(d), 1124, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 
Stat. 2683, 2688, effective Oct. 1, 1996.


                               Amendments

    2003--Pub. L. 108-136, Sec. 921(d)(5)(B)(i), substituted 
``Disclosure of organizational and personnel informa

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tion: exemption for specified intelligence agencies'' for ``Disclosure 
of organizational and personnel information: exemption for Defense 
Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, and National 
Imagery and Mapping Agency'' in section catchline.
    Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 108-136, Sec. 921(d)(5)(A), substituted 
``National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency'' for ``National Imagery and 
Mapping Agency''.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 1124 of Pub. L. 104-201, 
set out as an Effective Date of 1996 Amendment note under section 193 of 
this title.


    Disclosure of Governmental Affiliation by Department of Defense 
             Intelligence Personnel Outside of United States

    Pub. L. 103-359, title V, Sec. 503, Oct. 14, 1994, 108 Stat. 3430, 
provided that:
    ``(a) In General.--Notwithstanding section 552a(e)(3) of title 5, 
United States Code, intelligence personnel of the Department of Defense 
who are authorized by the Secretary of Defense to collect intelligence 
from human sources shall not be required, when making an initial 
assessment contact outside the United States, to give notice of 
governmental affiliation to potential sources who are United States 
persons.
    ``(b) Records.--Records concerning such contacts shall be maintained 
by the Department of Defense and made available upon request to the 
appropriate committees of the Congress in accordance with applicable 
security procedures. Such records shall include for each such contact an 
explanation of why notice of government affiliation could not reasonably 
be provided, the nature of the information obtained from the United 
States person as a result of the contact, and whether additional 
contacts resulted with the person concerned.
    ``(c) Definitions.--For the purposes of this section--
        ``(1) the term `United States' includes the Commonwealth of 
    Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and 
    any territory or possession of the United States; and
        ``(2) the term `United States person' means any citizen, 
    national, or permanent resident alien of the United States.''


 Exemption for National Reconnaissance Office From Any Requirement for 
                   Disclosure of Personnel Information

    Pub. L. 102-496, title IV, Sec. 406, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3186, 
which provided that, except as required by President and except with 
respect to provision of information to Congress, nothing in Pub. L. 102-
496 or any other provision of law was to be construed to require 
disclosure of name, title, or salary of any person employed by, or 
assigned or detailed to, National Reconnaissance Office or disclosure of 
number of such persons, was repealed and restated in former section 425 
of this title by Pub. L. 103-178, title V, Sec. 503(a)(1), (b), Dec. 3, 
1993, 107 Stat. 2038, 2039.