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SECTION 1. RELIEF OF RICHARD M. BARLOW OF BOZEMAN, MONTANA.

(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Richard Barlow was a counter-proliferation intelligence
officer with expertise in Pakistan nuclear issues.
(2) From 1980-82, Mr. Barlow served as the action officer
for Pakistan proliferation matters at the Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency.
(3) In 1985, Mr. Barlow joined the Central Intelligence
Agency, becoming a recognized issue expert on Pakistan's
clandestine nuclear purchasing networks and its weapons
programs.
(4) After serving as a Special Agent with the Customs
Service, Mr. Barlow then joined the Office of the Secretary of
Defense starting in 1989, where he continued to investigate
Pakistan's nuclear weapons network headed by A. Q. Khan.
(5) Mr. Barlow was instrumental in the 1987 arrest and
later conviction of 2 agents in Pakistan's nuclear weapons
development program headed by A. Q. Khan, for which he received
an award for exceptional accomplishment from the Director of
the Central Intelligence Agency and numerous commendations from
senior State Department and law enforcement officials.
(6) In addition, Mr. Barlow received a prestigious
commendation from the State Department's Legal Advisor for
assistance to President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State
George P. Schultz for triggering the Solarz Amendment relating
to termination of military and economic aid to Pakistan for
exporting nuclear weapons technology.
(7) In a classified hearing following the arrests of the
Pakistani agents, Mr. Barlow, as the Central Intelligence
Agency's top expert, testified truthfully to the Subcommittee
on Asian Pacific Affairs of the Committee on International
Relations of the House of Representatives, then known as the
House Foreign Affairs Committee, that the arrested Pakistanis
were agents of the Pakistani government, and revealed that
Pakistan had continued to regularly violate United States
nuclear export laws.
(8) Mr. Barlow's actions revealed that certain Executive
Branch officials had been withholding this information from the
Congressional committees.
(9) In 1989, Mr. Barlow joined the Office of the Secretary
of Defense in the Office of Non-proliferation where he
continued to investigate Pakistani proliferation networks.
(10) In April 1989, Mr. Barlow received an outstanding
performance review from his Department of Defense supervisors,
and in June 1989 he was promoted.
(11) During the spring and early summer of 1989, Mr. Barlow
told his supervisors on a number of occasions that he had
serious concerns that Executive Branch officials were
concealing intelligence about Pakistan's nuclear program from
Congress and were obstructing pending criminal investigations
into Pakistan's procurement efforts in order to avoid
triggering the Pressler and Solarz Amendments and to obtain
approval for a proposed $1,400,000,000 sale of F-16 jets to
Pakistan.
(12) On August 2, 1989, Mr. Barlow raised concerns about
false testimony given by senior officials to the Congress on
Pakistan's nuclear capabilities to the Subcommittee on Asian
Pacific Affairs of the Committee on International Relations of
the House.
(13) On August 4, 1989, several weeks after being promoted,
Richard Barlow was handed a notice of pending termination.
(14) On August 8, 1989, Mr. Barlow's security clearances
were suspended for reasons that were classified and not
revealed to him.
(15) On August 26, 1989, Mr. Barlow, under threat of
firing, was offered a series of menial, temporary assignments
by Department of Defense personnel and security officials
concerned about possible retaliation against him as a
Congressional whistleblower by senior officials in the Office
of the Secretary of Defense.
(16) Mr. Barlow then underwent a 9-month long security
investigation involving numerous allegations levied against him
by his superiors in the Office of Secretary of Defense, all of
which were found to be false.
(17) In March of 1990, Mr. Barlow then had his security
clearance restored and remained in a series of temporary
assignments until February 1992, when he then resigned under
duress.
(18) At the time of his separation from government service,
Mr. Barlow had completed 8 years of government service.
(19) Mr. Barlow's temporary loss of his security clearance
and personnel actions against him damaged his reputation and
left him unable to find suitable employment inside the
Government.
(20) For the next 15 years, Mr. Barlow continued to serve
his country as a consultant to the intelligence and law
enforcement communities working on complex counterintelligence
and counter-proliferation operations without the benefits he
would have had if he had continued as a Federal employee.
(21) In 1998, a Private Relief Bill (S. 2274, 105th
Congress) was introduced to provide compensation to Mr. Barlow.
On October 5, 1998, the Senate passed S. Res. 256, which
referred the bill to the Court of Federal Claims instructing
the court to advise the Congress as to ''the nature, extent,
and character of the claim for compensation referred to in such
bill as a legal or equitable claim against the United States or
a gratuity''.
(22) With Senate Resolution 256, the Senate recognized the
importance of protecting Federal employees who inform Congress
of Executive Branch distortions of the truth and other
wrongdoing.
(23) On March 6, 2000, the Government filed a protective
order under the state secrets privilege for documents requested
under discovery by Mr. Barlow relating to the Pakistan nuclear
program.
(24) The documents denied under the state secret privilege
were documents that Mr. Barlow had official access to prior to
the loss of clearance.
(25) The documents denied under the state secrets privilege
were subpoenaed by Mr. Barlow to substantiate the allegations
he originally made regarding his claim of false testimony of
Government officials to Congress on the Pakistan nuclear
weapons program and the actions taken against him.
(26) The evidence withheld from the Court as a result of
the state secrets privilege included significant, sworn
statements from a number of senior intelligence, Department of
State, and Department of Defense officials corroborating Mr.
Barlow's charges of Executive Branch wrongdoing.
(27) As a result of the use of the state secrets privilege,
Mr. Barlow and the United States Court of Federal Claims did
not have access to evidence and information necessary to
evaluate the key information relating to the merits of Mr.
Barlow's case and accurately report its findings to the Senate.
(28) Since Mr. Barlow's separation from government service
in 1992, five Senate and five House committees have intervened
in support of Mr. Barlow's case on a bipartisan basis, and
investigations by the Central Intelligence Agency, State
Department Inspectors General, and the Government
Accountability Office have corroborated Mr. Barlow's findings
or found that personnel actions were taken against him in
reprisal.
(29) Richard Barlow is recognized for his patriotism and
service to his country.
(b) Compensation of Certain Losses.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay,
out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to
Richard M. Barlow of Bozeman, Montana, the sum of $1,900,000
for the losses incurred by Richard M. Barlow relating to and as
a direct consequence of personnel and security actions taken by
the Department of Defense beginning on August 4th, 1989.
(2) No inference of liability.--Nothing in this section
shall be construed as an inference of liability on the part of
the United States.
(3) No agents and attorneys fees.--None of the payment
authorized by this section may be paid to or received by any
agent or attorney for any services rendered in connection with
obtaining such payment. Any person who violates this subsection
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine
in the amount provided in title 18, United States Code.
(4) Non-taxability of payment.--The payment authorized by
this section is in partial reimbursement for losses incurred by
Richard Barlow as a result of the personnel actions taken by
the Department of Defense and is not subject to Federal, State,
or local income taxation.
Provides for the relief of Richard M. Barlow of Bozeman, Montana.