Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73not60

§423 Authority to Use Proceeds From Counterintelligence Operations of the Military Departments or the Defense Intelligence Agency

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— General Military Law › Part I— ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS › Chapter 21— DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE MATTERS › Subchapter I— GENERAL MATTERS › § 423

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Defense may allow military counterintelligence units or the Defense Intelligence Agency to use money they get from their operations to pay necessary expenses and to give awards when using regular appropriated funds isn’t practical. When the money is no longer needed, the net proceeds must go to the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. The Secretary must create rules and accounting controls to manage those proceeds.

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Title 10, §423

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(a)The Secretary of Defense may authorize, without regard to the provisions of section 3302 of title 31, use of proceeds from counterintelligence operations conducted by components of the military departments or the Defense Intelligence Agency to offset necessary and reasonable expenses, not otherwise prohibited by law, incurred in such operations, and to make exceptional performance awards to personnel involved in such operations, if use of appropriated funds to meet such expenses or to make such awards would not be practicable.

(b)As soon as the net proceeds from such counterintelligence operations are no longer necessary for the conduct of those operations, such proceeds shall be deposited into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

(c)The Secretary of Defense shall establish policies and procedures to govern acquisition, use, management, and disposition of proceeds from counterintelligence operations conducted by components of the military departments or the Defense Intelligence Agency, including effective internal systems of accounting and administrative controls.

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2009—Pub. L. 111–84 inserted “or the Defense Intelligence Agency” after “military departments” wherever appearing. 1987—Pub. L. 100–26 renumbered section 140b of this title as this section and struck out “United States Code,” after “section 3302 of title 31,” in subsec. (a).

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10 U.S.C. § 423

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

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