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# ESPIONAGE1. Unlawfully obtaining or permitting to be obtained information affecting national defense. That (a) Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information to be obtained is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation, goes upon, enters, flies over, or otherwise obtains information concerning any vessel, aircraft, work of defence, navy yard, naval station, submarine base, waling station, fort, battery, torpedo station docizard, canal, railroad, arsenal, camp, factory, mine, telegraph, telephone, wireless, or sigal station, building, office, or other place connected with the national defense, owned or constructed, or in progress of construction by the United States or under the control of the United States, or of any of its officers or agents, or within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, or any place in which any vessel, aircraft, arms, munitions, or other materials or instruments for use in time of war are being made, propared, repaired, or stored, under any contract or agreement with the United States, or with any person on behalf of the United States, or otherwise on tecalf of the United States, or any prohibited place within the meaning of section 6 of this title; or (b) whoever for the purpose aforesaid, ard with like intent or reason to believe, copies, tekes, makos, or obtains, or attempts, or induces or aide another to copy, take, make, or obtain, any sketch, photograph, photographic negativo, blueprint, plan, man, model, instrument, appliance, deement, witing, or noto of anything connected with the national defense; or (c) whoever, for the purpose aforesaid, receives or obtains or agrees or attempts or induces or aids another to reccivo or obtain from any person, or from any cource whatever, any document, writing, code book, simal book, sketch, photograpa, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note, of anything connected with the national defense, knowing or having reason to believe, at the time ho receives or obtains, or agrees or attempts or induces or aids another to receive or obtain it, that it has been or will be obtained, taken, made or disposed of by any person contrary to the provisions of this title; cr (1) whoever, lawfully or unlawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being intrusted with any docment, writing, code book, sial, book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, villfully communicates or transits or attempts to communicate or transmit the same to any person not entitled to reccivo it, or willfully retains the same cad fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it; or (3) whoover, teing intrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negativo, blueprint, plan, rap, model, note, or information, relating to the national defense, through gross negligence permite the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, shall de punished by imprisonment for not more than ten years and may,   (2145)