18 U.S.C. § 953 — Private correspondence with foreign governments
submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 136 words · no verdicts yet
This section prohibits unauthorized efforts by United States citizens to influence foreign governments concerning disputes with the United States or to defeat United States measures. It preserves a citizen’s right to seek relief from a foreign government for an injury.
A United States citizen, wherever located, who without United States authority directly or indirectly begins or carries on correspondence or communication with a foreign government or its officer or agent, intending to influence that government’s or officer’s or agent’s actions about a dispute with the United States or intending to defeat United States measures, may be fined under this title, imprisoned for up to three years, or both. This section does not take away a citizen’s right to apply personally or through an agent to a foreign government or its agents for relief from an injury caused by that government or its agents or subjects.
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.
Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 744; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
- 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 744
- 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2147
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 645 on 1948-06-25.
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