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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · National Security Act of 1947 · Sec. 805

Sec. 805. definitions

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## Sec. 805 definitions **[**[50 U.S.C. 3164](/us/usc/t50/s3164)**]** For purposes of this title— ####
(1)the term “**authorized investigative agency**” means an agency authorized by law or regulation to conduct a counterintelligence investigation or investigations of persons who are proposed for access to classified information to ascertain whether such persons satisfy the criteria for obtaining and retaining access to such information; ####
(2)the term “**classified information**” means any information that has been determined pursuant to Executive Order No. 12356 of April 2, 1982, or successor orders, or the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, to require protection against unauthorized disclosure and that is so designated; ####
(3)the term “**consumer reporting agency**” has the meaning given such term in section 603 of the Consumer Credit Protection Act (15 U.S.C. 1681a); ####
(4)the term “**employee**” includes any person who receives a salary or compensation of any kind from the United States Government, is a contractor of the United States Government or an employee thereof, is an unpaid consultant of the United States Government, or otherwise acts for or on behalf of the United States Government, except as otherwise determined by the President; ####
(5)the terms “**financial agency**” and “**financial institution**” have the meanings given to such terms in section 5312(a) of title 31, United States Code, and the term “**holding company**” has the meaning given to such term in section 1101(6) of the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 (12 U.S.C. 3401); ####
(6)the terms “**foreign power**” and “**agent of a foreign power**” have the same meanings as set forth in subsections
(a)and
(b)of section 101, respectively, of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801); ####
(7)the term “**State**” means each of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau, and any other possession of the United States; and ####
(8)the term “**computer**” means any electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other high speed data processing device performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions, and includes any data storage facility or communications facility directly related to or operating in conjunction with such device and any data or other information stored or contained in such device. # TITLE IX APPLICATION OF SANCTIONS LAWS TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
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