Sec. 602. defenses and exceptions
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## Sec. 602 defenses and exceptions **[**[50 U.S.C. 3122](/us/usc/t50/s3122)**]** ###
(a)It is a defense to a prosecution under section 601 that before the commission of the offense with which the defendant is charged, the United States had publicly acknowledged or revealed the intelligence relationship to the United States of the individual the disclosure of whose intelligence relationship to the United States is the basis for the prosecution. ###
(b)####
(1)Subject to paragraph (2), no person other than a person committing an offense under section 601 shall be subject to prosecution under such section by virtue of section 2 or 4 of title 18, United States Code, or shall be subject to prosecution for conspiracy to commit an offense under such section. ####
(2)Paragraph
(1)shall not apply #####
(A)in the case of a person who acted 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, or #####
(B)in the case of a person who has authorized access to classified information. ###
(c)It shall not be an offense under section 601 to transmit information described in such section directly to either congressional intelligence committee. ###
(d)It shall not be an offense under section 601 for an individual to disclose information that solely identifies himself as a covert agent.
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