Source: http://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/2015-guidelines-manual/archive/2001-2m33
Timestamp: 2016-07-26 12:09:20
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§2', '§ 793', '§ 783', '§2', '§ 793', '§2', '§ 793']

2001 2m3_3 | United States Sentencing Commission
2001 2m3_3
2001 Federal Sentencing Guideline Manual§2M3.3. Transmitting National Defense Information; Disclosure
of Classified Cryptographic Information; Unauthorized Disclosure to a Foreign
Government or a Communist Organization of Classified Information by Government
Employee; Unauthorized Receipt of Classified Information(a) Base Offense Level: (1) 29, if top secret information; or (2) 24, otherwise.CommentaryStatutory Provisions: 18 U.S.C. §§ 793(d), (e), (g),
798; 50 U.S.C. § 783(b), (c).Application Notes: 1. See Commentary to §2M3.1.2. If the defendant was convicted of 18 U.S.C. § 793(d) or (e)
for the willful transmission or communication of intangible information with
reason to believe that it could be used to the injury of the United States or
the advantage of a foreign nation, apply §2M3.2.Background: The statutes covered in this section proscribe
willfully transmitting or communicating to a person not entitled to receive it
a document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic
negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating
to the national defense. Proof that the item was communicated with reason to
believe that it could be used to the injury of the United States or the
advantage of a foreign nation is required only where intangible information is
communicated under 18 U.S.C. § 793(d) or (e).This section also covers statutes that proscribe the disclosure of
classified information concerning cryptographic or communication intelligence
to the detriment of the United States or for the benefit of a foreign
government, the unauthorized disclosure to a foreign government or a communist
organization of classified information by a government employee, and the
unauthorized receipt of classified information.Historical Note: Effective November 1, 1987.
Amended effective November 1, 1993 (see Appendix C, amendment
481). USSC HelpLine