10 U.S.C. § 6234: Protection of classified…

§6234 Protection of Classified Information During Laboratory-to-laboratory Exchanges

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART VI — ELEMENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND OTHER MATTERS › Subpart B — Atomic Energy Defense › CHAPTER 605 — SAFEGUARDS AND SECURITY MATTERS › SUBCHAPTER II — CLASSIFIED INFORMATION › § 6234

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Energy must make sure every Energy Department employee and contractor who takes part in lab-to-lab exchanges gets full training on how to protect classified information and how to spot and respond to espionage and counterintelligence threats. The Secretary must also set up a pool of Energy Department staff and contractor staff who get special training to counter spying and intelligence-gathering when people travel abroad for those exchanges. The Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence can assign at least one person from that pool to travel with any group going to a country marked as sensitive for these exchange activities.

Title 10, §6234

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(a)Provision of Training.—

The Secretary of Energy shall ensure that all Department of Energy employees and Department of Energy contractor employees participating in laboratory-to-laboratory cooperative exchange activities are fully trained in matters relating to the protection of classified information and to potential espionage and counterintelligence threats.

(b)Countering of Espionage and Intelligence-gathering Abroad.—

(1)The Secretary shall establish a pool of Department employees and Department contractor employees who are specially trained to counter threats of espionage and intelligence-gathering by foreign nationals against Department employees and Department contractor employees who travel abroad for laboratory-to-laboratory exchange activities or other cooperative exchange activities on behalf of the Department.

(2)The Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence of the Department of Energy may assign at least one employee from the pool established under paragraph (1) to accompany a group of Department employees or Department contractor employees who travel to any nation designated to be a sensitive country for laboratory-to-laboratory exchange activities or other cooperative exchange activities on behalf of the Department.

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2674 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).

Amendments

2025—Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(d)(2)(B), realigned margins.