Title 50War and National DefenseRelease 119-73

§3325 Reaffirmation of longstanding prohibition against drug trafficking by employees of the intelligence community

Title 50 › Chapter CHAPTER 45— - MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY AUTHORITIES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITIES › § 3325

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Intelligence community employees, agents, and assets must not take part in illegal drug manufacture, purchase, sale, transport, or distribution. People who learn of reasonable evidence must report it to an official. "Intelligence community" is defined elsewhere.

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Title 50, §3325

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(a)Congress finds that longstanding statutes, regulations, and policies of the United States prohibit employees, agents, and assets of the elements of the intelligence community, and of every other Federal department and agency, from engaging in the illegal manufacture, purchase, sale, transport, and distribution of drugs.
(b)Any employee of the intelligence community having knowledge of a fact or circumstance that reasonably indicates that an employee, agent, or asset of an element of the intelligence community is involved in any activity that violates a statute, regulation, or policy described in subsection (a) shall report such knowledge to an appropriate official.
(c)In this section, the term “intelligence community” has the meaning given that term in section 3003(4) of this title.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 403–8 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

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Citation

50 U.S.C. § 3325

Title 50War and National Defense

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73