House OKs bill to protect US intelligence agents

By With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around the World; Edited By Anne Shutt

June 4, 1982

Washington

The House passed a bill to make exposure of US intelligence agents a crime. The bill was approved Thursday, 315 to 32, and sent to the Senate.

Under the bill, any US official who exposed secret information identifying agents would be subject to a $50,000 fine and 10 years in jail.